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iPhone 8 Said to Feature Iris Scanner to Authenticate With Your Eyes
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Have this on my Lumia 950XL. It's highly aggravating. Go ahead and "invent" it Apple. Few will love it...
What if you live in a cold climate and have gloves on?
What if you are working and your hands are dirty?
What if you hop out of the pool or shower and you have wet fingers?
Windows Hello, which is years old works in pitch dark so if Apple does it right, I don't see why it won't.
Please send me your Apple ID and password since there's nothing private in your phone, I promise I won't contact your family or your boss with your email
This is a secondary authentication mechanism. As long as it doesn't add much cost and doesn't rob battery life, why not?
Think about these scenarios:
1. Wearing gloves
2. Dirty hands
3. Whenever else it would be faster than using your fingers
Especially #1 in areas with proper winters, it makes sense.
1) What if you live in hot climate and have dark, shady sunglasses on?
All jokes aside, if you live in cold climate, and you unlock iPhone using iris scanner, you still have to take the gloves off to use it, right?
2) & 3)
iPhone 7 ulocks even when my hands are little dirty or wet.
You can use Siri to do stuff like send text messages.
But the better argument for the eye scanner as secondary authentication is that it allows you to interact fully with notifications and widgets without ever having to bring your thumb to the home button. Currently you need that extra authentication step to open an app from a notification or even to see your activity ring data in the widget. An eye scanner would automatically authenticate you while you are interacting with notifications or widgets.
Touch ID on current generation devices is already too fast. This would solve nothing.
And the reason a fingerprint scanner is not good enough? It is so sad that Apple seems to get off course so easily (e.g. removing headphone jack, new MBP port fiasco). What next...a new phone whose main feature is more curved edge bevels?
At least get back to adding functionality and making the OS rock solid if you can't innovate any more.
At least get back to adding functionality and making the OS rock solid if you can't innovate any more.
if they've stolen your car, they not only have your plates, which they could pay to look up...or perhaps they'd just read the info on the vehicle registration and insurance papers that MUST be in your vehicle...
Tell me something that Apple actually INVENTED first? It never happened.
Apple is ALWAYS following others. Apple just does it better than others.
The iPhone wasn't the first touch screen phone, but it was the first one that mattered. The iPod wasn't the first device to put music in your pocket, but it did it best for the general non-techy people. And so on...
I'm actually more interested to see the technology Apple has to place the fingerprint scanner, camera and front-facing speaker underneath the display.
From the leaks it seems like the Galaxy S8 will have a huge screen, which is a technical achievement in some respects, but it looks like Samsung will achieve it by moving the fingerprint scanner to the back of the phone, removing their logo from the front, and pushing the camera and speaker to a tiny "forehead" bezel above the screen.
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Exactly. Apple Pay is a great example. The reaction from many here was "Apple didn't invent mobile payments?" The reaction from Apple's competitors was to redouble their efforts with Samsung Pay and Android Pay.
Another example: Touch ID. "Apple didn't invent the fingerprint scanner!" Followed by a fingerprint scanner on the Galaxy S and then native fingerprint support in Android.
From the leaks it seems like the Galaxy S8 will have a huge screen, which is a technical achievement in some respects, but it looks like Samsung will achieve it by moving the fingerprint scanner to the back of the phone, removing their logo from the front, and pushing the camera and speaker to a tiny "forehead" bezel above the screen.
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Exactly. Apple Pay is a great example. The reaction from many here was "Apple didn't invent mobile payments?" The reaction from Apple's competitors was to redouble their efforts with Samsung Pay and Android Pay.
Another example: Touch ID. "Apple didn't invent the fingerprint scanner!" Followed by a fingerprint scanner on the Galaxy S and then native fingerprint support in Android.
I get it, they are the smartest company in the room, etc., etc.
I just don't see how they can improve the IRIS scanner. It's just not that great by design. Had it on my Note 7, 950XL and SP4. Works best on the SP4, but an IRIS scanner is suited for that application (sitting at desk, staring at computer). On a phone it's...neat...but fingers are so much faster/logical.
Guess Apple will make it instantaneous? We will see but in it's current incarnation across existing devices, it's an annoying novelty.
what if you let someone borrow your phone? would be nice to hide certain...(PORN) photos and private (PORN) Safari tabs while allowing the guest user to use the app.
having a consistent authentication method could make sense
So if they add new features, it's so unnecessary. If they don't add new features, they are no longer innovating. Got it.
Guess who wears glasses? Tim Cook. Do you think he would let this ship if it didn't work with glasses?