No Face ID? Hardly a deal breaker for me, but I understand why some want it. I would be fine with Touch ID on the keyboard or the power button (If that was placed on the side of the machine.)
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Bloomberg: Face ID for iMac Likely Pushed Back to Second Iteration of Upcoming Redesign
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Doesn't make any sense that they wouldn't include it for a year. Its not like they don't have the tech already there for this. I can understand the MB argument as the display is too thin but iMac? No excuse other than intentionally holding it back.
While I don’t expect it, there’s no reason it can’t be done; it’d just require a pairing process. If the display is later connected to another Mac, Face ID would be disabled until reconnected to the paired Mac or able to be reset. The paired Mac would just receive a pass/fail for each Face ID attempt, basically.
They could do basically the same thing for Touch ID on the Magic Keyboard, too.
I'll accept that if Apple starts bundling free Watches with every computer purchased
No... Simply not enough time for their aggressive schedule. That's not a new concept. Something that all companies deal with. Especially developing a a highly refreshed product and hitting a required release date. Stuff you want to include has to wait, for a variety of reasons, especially when needing to rely on dozens of vendors supplying parts, complicated with the pandemic.
I’m legit curious. I have friends that still put tape on their computer camera too.
what makes a computer camera freaky, while walking around with a phone that has potentially 4 cameras that follows you everywhere?
no one puts tape on those? It’s never made sense to me. I’m legitimately asking if there is additional security or a difference in software that makes computer cameras more vulnerable?
This is a ridiculous delay, this is long overdue, as is a better camera, especially with current work at home issues.
I have to say the rumor about design of the back being completely flat is kinda disappointing; current design has beautifully thin edges (which is the angle you mostly see the machine, when not using it), bulkier back is completely unnoticed IMO. No matter how thin this new thing is going to be, if it will have a flat-back "ipad pro" form, edges will never be as thin as they are now. Maybe they will go for a compromise here and somehow retain thinner edges (I hope)...
You know that the 5mm thick edge is just right on the edge..move back couple of mm and the thickness get bigger and bigger
No need for that bulky back since the imac will no longer have dGpu and hdd and arm SoC will never get hot as the Intel 90-95w were
So a flat top to bottom, left to right 15 mm is all we need for better speakers as well
Well, it wouldn’t be a power limitation in the iMac, which would fix your distance issue. No, it is about having something in reserve for the next model.
Apple would have had an iMac prototype setup with an experimental version of faceID back in 2017. It was already commercialised then on an iPhone, so from then it would be tweaking for how an iMac would be set up, probably to increase power to compensate for a slightly greater distance between camera and user.
The iPhone X was released in 2017 not 2018, if this was posted on an Apple forum that would be quite embarrassing.
Safety. ha ha ha. You couldn't make it up. So you use properly long passwords for safety, but you want to bypass that with FaceID. Do you realise how ridiculous that statement comes across.
Do you know how long it took to bypass FACEid: 20 seconds...So if you really are concerned with safety and use a long password, then the last thing you would want is Face ID!
Well its a long time since I've seen someone write something so stupid about safety. When people comment about FaceID being a necessity to prevent putting in safe long passwords....literally rolled on the floor laughing.
Do you realise how easy it is to bypass Face ID.
Just look it up.
if this was supposed to convince me that some of these comments were from professionals using iMacs as work computers rather than toys, then its failed miserably.
Face ID might be easy, might be a bit more glitz, but its certainly got nothing to do with data integrity and keeping it safe.
Do you realise how easy it is to bypass Face ID.
Just look it up.
if this was supposed to convince me that some of these comments were from professionals using iMacs as work computers rather than toys, then its failed miserably.
Face ID might be easy, might be a bit more glitz, but its certainly got nothing to do with data integrity and keeping it safe.
If You Really Want to Protect Your iPhone, Stop Using Face ID Now
Touch ID is even worse. To really keep your data safe, use an 8-digit or longer passcode.
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Face ID vs Fingerprint; Which is more secure?
Security for your phone is very important, in this blog we talk about Face ID vs Fingerprint to try and see which is more secure.
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Apple's Face ID is bad, as this police encounter makes painfully clear
Video shows a police officer attempting to unlock a handcuffed man's iPhone using Face ID.
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Its even easier to hack now that masks are used.
Even Apple aren't content with FaceID, hence they are changing it so for those who think its safe and are crying so much about no faceId on the iMac then perhaps Apple want it to be safer before its on that platform. Clearly they do, as they've put in new patents:
Apple Patent for a New and More Advanced Face ID for iPhone
Biometric security technologies have been positioned as the favorites to be able to unlock our mobile. The pattern and the pin is something reserved for a handful of users, or entry-level terminals that do not have other options, or for those occasions in which the security of our terminal...
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How about they first get Touch ID and/or click-on-the-watch working for everything first? Despite having both of those set up, I have to type in my password to unlock far too much stuff still.
99% of the time, my phone's cameras get a view of the inside of my pocket.
As for the mac, I trust Apple when they say that the little green LED next to the camera can't be disabled.
I'd be more concerned about microphones, frankly, but I only get to say that because the only home assistant I have is a single HomePod (and again, I trust Apple when they say that no audio is sent off-device until it hears the attention phrase).
Oh, OK. Please... call Mr. Dan Riccio, Apple's SVP of Hardware Engineering and give him the benefit of your product engineering expertise and inside knowledge, letting him know what they did wrong. And more importantly, how they can do better in the future.
