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Apple's Face ID Turns Android Makers Away From Under-Screen Fingerprint Recognition
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You still have not told me what "work" you do on your iPhone?
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Is the underlying issue here that flaws or mistakes happen ? Apple does do it much better than the competition, as they should with their resources. It's one thing to single out idevices, on MacOS side security has been an interesting ride to be honest.
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Is that relevant to a phone ? I only say as I've just updated from a 6S to a 7 due to storage and day to day it's the same.
You point is valid for my iPad 10.5 and new ATV 4K , the extra grunt shines through when running CPU / GPU apps .
I can't think of 3 iPhone apps that have made me go .....owww this 7 upgrade is kicking it!
Androids issues with lag etc....it's optimisation and not lack of hardware . Remember owning android , iPhone and windows phones , the windows phone actually put the other two to shame what to achieved with the hardware. Hence why OS X was always very good and did not need grunt unlike windows...where a virus scanner would make your computer as enjoyable as using....well iPhone 4 with iOS 9
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We have touchid and password right now on iPhones......and to answer you question, even apple admits that faceID will have exceptions so you need fall back.
DNA reader would be far superior to faceID though, and probably a better user experience... good thinking
Face ID is going to flop!
Except it won’t. The same thing happens every time apple changes things up ... naysayers will say the old way was better, that the new way will flop, and that it’s all a huge mistake. The same thing was said about Touch ID when it was first introduced. Not secure enough they said. Doesn’t always work, they said. It’s slow they said... but now they cant live without it.
The same thing was said about getting rid of the optical drives... about built in batteries... about the Apple Watch... about air pods... even when the iPhone first came out.. negative nancys were all over the net saying it would flop (lol). Now every phone is either an iPhone, or something like it.
You’d think by now people would learn to trust Apple. I think they know what they’re doing, especially when it comes to hardware.
Maybe people should wait to try it out before they predict doom and gloom.
Except it won’t. The same thing happens every time apple changes things up ... naysayers will say the old way was better, that the new way will flop, and that it’s all a huge mistake. The same thing was said about Touch ID when it was first introduced. Not secure enough they said. Doesn’t always work, they said. It’s slow they said... but now they cant live without it.
The same thing was said about getting rid of the optical drives... about built in batteries... about the Apple Watch... about air pods... even when the iPhone first came out.. negative nancys were all over the net saying it would flop (lol). Now every phone is either an iPhone, or something like it.
You’d think by now people would learn to trust Apple. I think they know what they’re doing, especially when it comes to hardware.
Maybe people should wait to try it out before they predict doom and gloom.
I think that might be one of the most disturbing sentences I have ever read. All hail the corporation!
Apple obviously threw more money into the project. That wasn't my point, but I think you already knew that.
That's the sort of gimmick (along with the touch bar on the MBP and the whole of the Apple Watch) that is what's turning the pro and the power users away from Apple products.
Ones man's gimmick is another's essential feature. I think someone said something similar when Mercedes introduced seat belts. Air-con was introduced and then dumped for almost 10 years before the "gimmick" took off....
I just don’t have any idea what you want. What specific apps I use, like Chrome, Inbox, Maps? Why would I be afraid of you trying them out? Every single app I have works perfectly on my phone. I can’t think of any app I ever tried that didn’t, actually, and I had several Android phones since the Nexus One.
Clearly, you don’t get it. I am anything but a “simple user” - I work in IT security, I am well versed with computer systems you’ve never heard of. I have lots of apps and use my smartphone a lot. I just have no idea what you mean by “powerful apps”. On the phone? Like what, 3D rendering, C++ project management, architectural drawing, large databases, compilers? Why would I want to do that on my phone?
You know, I have various Apple products including 3 functioning tablets - the original iPad (I have the nicest 32Gb 3G version), the retina mini and the new 10.5” Pro. I well know iOS and its many limitations and inadequacies. The first two of these products were pretty poor, hardware-wise, and this made them generally poor. The last one is actually pretty good hardware-wise but its not really a good product and it costs way more than it should. It amuses me that this very website doesn’t work properly with the iPad - hitting one of the arrow keys on my keyboard scrolls to the bottom of the page, for example.
With the latest iPad I even gave up on putting music on it. It was such a hassle and I just couldn’t find the energy to do it anymore, now I only use my Android phone for this.
If I had any inkling that the iPhone was anything but a mediocre product, I’d buy one immediately. But I don’t, I’m certain it’s a mediocre, overpriced fashion tech item whose main function is to socially signal how upwardly mobile one is.
To return to the topic, this face scanning technology is clearly a Hail Mary attempt. Apple is throwing stuff out there in hope something sticks. It just doesn’t have much applicability right now, face unlocking is clearly a more involved and awkward way of unlocking your phone compared to a good fingerprint reader, and otherwise there’s only so much desirability that poop face emojis can bring out in the general public.
There’s some chance a killer app will appear, but I doubt it. It feels very much like the Macbook OLED strip - an ineffective gimmick that turned out for me to be more harmful than I originally envisaged (I also have the new 15” Macbook Pro).
Apple has one site where they show quite clearly the requirements. Muslim men with beards have no problems. Muslim woman who want to hide their face from any men will have to go to a place where they can show at least nose and eyes. Similar if you are skiing, mountaineering, exploring Antarctica, if you are a doctor having everything covered during an operation, motorbike riders with full helmet, bank robbers hiding their faces. Race seems to make no difference to this particular technology, because skin colour has no effect on it.
[doublepost=1507457832][/doublepost]And take into account that the face id camera isn't limited to taking 3D pictures of your face. It can take 3D pictures of anything. There will be lots of interesting applications for that. Touch ID does just one thing.
Then you don’t understand business in general, and you don’t understand Apple. At 11.59.
The way Apple has always worked is - we give you just one way of getting things done, but it’s a darn optimised one. You may not like it, but it’s something you are going to have to accept, maybe even embrace if you are to benefit from the Apple ecosystem.
If you prefer to wade brought a myriad of options, both good and bad, well, you have a ton of android phones to choose from in that regard.
I remember that clearly. Still, they are the ones who brought it to market, and I'm sure a lot of work went into it's further development after purchasing Authentic.
Even Face ID, big part of it is a result of the company they bought (can't recall if it was 2013-2014?) that made the original Kinect for Xbox. I remember everyone speculating at the time what they were up to. While it's not as simple as this - they essentially miniaturized a lot of what was in a Kinect into the sensor area of iPhone X.
Their hardware / chipset team is really working on a different level right now. It's probably the most impressive part of Apple as a company at the moment.
the person would still have to know about which method or methods you chose to unlock your phone to unlock your phone. if they don't know the method and they try to unlock one of their 5 tries for unlocking the phone is used up. it would likely use up a few tries and force someone into trying something else.
Either way still gonna cost him a $1000. He gonna get it back if he returns but still initially still gonna cost him $1000. Maybe some people have that convenience having extra money laying around like you.
And yes we are still going to complain things we never tried it’s a human nature. Because based on our experience it’s not always going to work hence the word beta. The fact is almost all Apple products are like that. They just putting improvements as the time goes by called updates. They’re already loaded with problems loaded with issues every time they announce something new either hardware or software. So yeah, he should let it mature make other people like you beta test. Then when everybody says it works perfect then he can decide. Like he said he prefer TouchID and Apple gave him the choice.
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To be clear, islam is a religion, not a nationality, though it is not uncommon that people from certain parts of the world subscribe to the islam religion almost exclusively, but they are not interchangeable.
Not to be a pedant, but my country recently had an Indian muslim nominated as our president (a largely ceremonial role) in an election supposedly reserved for the Malay community, so I am quite particular about that distinction.
I think the best Android apps don't really hold a candle to the best iOS apps. Take email for instance. iOS has apps like Spark and Airmail, while the best Android email app is usually Google's own gmail app (which says a lot about the state of the competition). There's Tweetbot for iOS, Fantastical, Bear, 1password, Things, Timepage, just to name a few.
iOS users tend to be a lot more spoilt for choice when it comes to this sort of things.
Throwing stuff out there would be putting a fingerprint sensor at the back while including Face ID in case one didn't work. That Apple removed Touch ID and is apparently going all-in with Face ID suggests that they have spent a lot of time thinking this through, because it's often easier to just cram more features in than it is to remove anything, especially a feature as established as Touch ID.
Knowing Apple, Face ID will likely be the springboard to way more functionality in the future. Maybe improved AR features, or perhaps even a means of checking your face for any symptoms of ill health?
That is not at all what he said.
If your going to make up stuff at least get it right...
“Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Out job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them.”
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The probability of a false match is different for twins and siblings that look like you as well as among children under the age of 13, because their Face ID Security September 2017 2 distinct facial features may not have fully developed. If you're concerned about this, we recommend using a passcode to authenticate.
https://images.apple.com/business/docs/FaceID_Security_Guide.pdf
Technically speaking the AirPods do the decoding ...... via the DAC
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I think that due to how Islam is incorporated in national law in so many states, people
Forget the distinction with nationalities . You are right, they are not interchangeable
But you keep telling us choice and options is not a good thing?????????????
So...they copied Apple then?
"In a video posted Tuesday on YouTube, experts from Security Research Labs demonstrated an apparent breach of the S5 using similar tactics employed late last year to bypass the fingerprint lock on Apple's (AAPL) iPhone 5s.
The group says it used a camera-phone photo of a fingerprint on a smartphone screen to create a "fake finger" sheet out of a wood-glue mold. That allowed them to access the S5's home screen and even send money via the PayPal app, which uses fingerprint authentication."
The hypocrisy of you and others is simply astounding.
My first girlfriend 20 years ago had a vagina so she’s exactly like my current girlfriend.
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Appreciating a company that has good taste and doesn’t just throw whatever at the wall and see if it sticks should not be disturbing. But ok. Be edgy and anti corporation man.
I have found that the only people that can use a smartphone/tablet for "real work" are writers/bloggers/fanboys. Everyone else uses them in the same way. Smartphones are consumption mostly, light email, texting, surfing, photos, social media and some light gaming. Tablets are pure consumption devices for 99.9% of their owners.
Any real work is still done on a computer of some sort, mostly Windows then macOS then some form of Linux which possibly means ChromeOS.
On this topic FaceID will either be a huge success and change the way all smartphones work or it will be like Siri, slow, and work like 80% of the time or less and will quickly be ignored by all users save the cult members.
Android phone makers with finger print readers on the back got it right.
