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These unlock things are a complete gimmick and offer absolutely no real value whatsoever. Just another example of Apple innovation dying.
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Apple Working on OS X 10.12 Feature Allowing Macs to Be Unlocked via iPhone's Touch ID
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This * 1000.
These unlock things are a complete gimmick and offer absolutely no real value whatsoever. Just another example of Apple innovation dying.
Or you could just use your password like you have always done. Seriously, what is wrong with having an optional, easier way to unlock your computer?
Sony Vaios had a fingerprint reader next to the track pad way back in 2003. My old 2008 Vaio has this feature and never failed once to unlock the computer in all these years.
This is Apple's idea of "Think Different". More like Think Backwards for me.
This is Apple's idea of "Think Different". More like Think Backwards for me.
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I believe that Apple's finger scanner doesn't collect your fingerprint, unlike Vaio's that does. So it's a security for the user advancement.
Sony Vaio does not collect the fingerprint. I merely stores it in the NVRAM. This is similar to the iPhone. No company to my knowledge collects fingerprints. I'd be glad if you could point me to an article about Vaio's collecting fingerprints.
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So you're going to use all of them?!
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What about the current and older macs which don't have a Touch ID sensor built in?
Well Apple made a big to-do about it not collecting an actual fingerprint like they came up with the technology, so one would figure a 2003 Vaio did. If they didn't, then there's more egregiousness from Apple.
Oh you mean the Vaios that had software which exposed all of the passwords and any secure information stored on a device? The iPhone's engineering into TouchID is far more sophisticated, on a hardware and software level, than anything prior to 2013. Part of the sophistication comes from Apple's ability to craft CPU chips and the time they had to mature the that linage. It will take a clever crafting of hardware to bring the Secure Enclave and thus, TouchID to Mac. To reduce it to merely a piece of memory that saves data is offensive to those who designed the system, and various systems in iOS around it
We will see it, but just know that Apple's journey to bring it to iPhone took ~5 years (patents started in 08 and TouchID was announced in 13) and they even had complete control of the hardware, down to the electron, for at least 3 of those 5. Plus, iPhone is more-or-less Apple's service gateway, so allowing time for it to break in features and keeping those features to a limited audience helps scale their massive operations.
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Screw you guys. Apple should build something that's good for my own personal use case.
How about the power button itself. the one on my 17" MBP is the same size as the home button on my iPhone.
Nearly any other company on earth would love to have Apple's "ruined" reputation, not to mention their great success under Tim's leadership.
Maybe this is foreshadowing what's to come
Apple always does this, introduces a feature software side that works halfway and then later puts it as hardware that works 100%
To this (and everyone else) complaining about how this won't make things easier:
(a) You can ALREADY get this today by installing MacID, a combo OSX+iOS+WatchOS app that provides this functionality. It costs $3.99 and is, IMHO, totally worth it. Buy on the iPhone store and download the Mac part separately [showing, yet again, what a cluster fsck is Apple's Mac store strategy --- lack of links to the iPhone store, and unwillingness to support certain types of apps --- but that's a rant for a different day.]
(b) If you use the watch to unlock, you just have to touch the watch face to unlock. It works REALLY nicely. The first two or three times it feels a little clumsy and slow until you figure out a workflow that works for you and the sort of speed at which things happen.
(c) You can use (if you want) proximity sensing so your mac will just unlock if you (or more precisely your [UNLOCKED!] watch/phone) is present.
Obviously the extent to which you want to use these different options depends on your circumstances and levels of paranoia. If you're afraid the police are coming after you, presumably you don't want any of the watch options since, I assume, if you're not fast enough, or are cuffed, the police can fiddle with your watch while it's still on your wrist and so still unlocked. If you're in an open office, you may not want the proximity options, etc.
I am guessing Apple has had this sort of thing in mind for a while. The main thing they've presumably had to work out is not the underlying tech (the author of MacID as one guy could do that, and I have a pretty good idea how he did it; there's no deep deep voodoo needed); the issue is the UI to present, how much configurability to present, and what defaults to use. Obviously a 3rd party app has this easier as the app is being sold to enthusiasts and fiddlers who don't mind having quite a few different options they can experiment with to find a workflow they like.
The company was going to grow no matter who the CEO was going to be---that's why I don't think highly of Tim Cook and his "accomplishments." Anyone could've released products with bigger and smaller screens, higher resolution screens, and new colors--those aren't advances in technology that require hardcore R&D.
Yea, those A series advancements just fall from the trees.
Tim has nothing to do with A-series advances, he's not an engineer.
Some people on here think Tim doesn't know squat about technology---I agree with them.
