iPhone X Comes Only in Space Gray and Silver With No Sign of Gold

[Michaelgtrusa]

The gold is the best looking color.

 

[splogue]

I was hoping for an oil-rubbed bronze, orichalcum, or copper patina myself...

Steampunk - I'm on board! Now that would have generated some buzz.

I like the way you think.

 

[AEdouard]

https://www.cnet.com/news/iphone-4-sim-free-price-revealed-by-apple-pre-order/

Highest price back then versus now. Doubled.

Those prices are in pounds. The GBP was worth 1.8 USD in September 2005. Barely 1.3 now. iPhone prices are always fixed to the USD. Yeah, they're more expensive, but the increase in value of the US dollar is a significant part of it (as a Canadian, I'm also annoyed).

 

[macTW]

That 1 in a million happened live on stage. Not a good first impression at all.

And what I feel everyone is concerned about the face ID compared to Touch ID is that you no longer have to make physical contact with the phone to unlock it. So folks are worried that it's even easier than grabbing your hand or finger when asleep opposed to grabbing your phone point it at you and run off with it. My niece and nephew do that to me all the time. Just grab my phone when I'm using it out my hand and run away with it.

You must have not watched the keynote. He had just turned the phone on and, like with Touch ID, first unlock requires passcode.

Clearly you didn't watch the keynote because it said it requires eye contact. If he didn't look at it, it wouldn't unlock. He showed that.

Please go educate yourself on the product.

 

[ck2875]

versus your face with eye contact, which only you control

you must have never woken up to a toddler lifting your eyelids to 'just see if you're awake', while staring you down with their face a few inches from your own. a small outlier scenario, sure, but it turns out there are very marginal situations in which you aren't controlling your eyelids (and you start to wonder whether your child was just about to kill you in your sleep or simply trying to give you a heart attack).

 

[macTW]

you must have never woken up to a toddler lifting your eyelids to 'just see if you're awake', while staring you down with their face a few inches from your own. a small outlier scenario, sure, but it turns out there are very marginal situations in which you aren't controlling your eyelids (and you start to wonder whether your child was just about to kill you in your sleep or simply trying to give you a heart attack).

I've woken up to that.

I haven't woken up to someone touching my hand, though. Which Touch ID is susceptible to.

Nor have I woke up to someone trying to kill me