Yeah. I've heard "scratch that" or "scratching something off a list" but never "scratching plans".
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Kuo: All iPhone Models in 2018 Likely to Abandon Fingerprint Recognition
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Agree. We need to step back and look at what we have become as a result of the tech industry’s continual obsoleting and upgrading of things we use. Was entering a 4 digit PIN so arduous a task? Ok, Touch ID saved us 4 clicks of a button, something possibly important to someone who has to unlock their phone many times per day. But now that one click has to be eliminated?
The situation is similar to what we have in the auto industry now. Cars have become so reliant and their looks so homogenized that significant improvements are hard to come by. So manufacturers focus on putting in a lot of snazzy tech stuff that I imagine most people don’t want and can’t figure out how to use.
How does one phone company distinguish its phone when at first glance all of them look and work the same? By adding new features such as Face ID, something that is a questionable improvement over Touch ID, but can be used as a marketing differentiator. (A situation similar to the introduction of the touch bar in the MP Pro). And now we spend so much of our energy and passion (24 pages in this thread already) over what is, in the big picture, an essentially trivial thing.
it’s pretty common to have plans/features written on a board and then scratching them off
Everyone gets blasted in the eyes with IR LEDs!!! Would love to see what the output on those is, whereas the wavelength is invisible to the human eye and as such there is no wincing or pupil constriction response to bright light. I have no interest in purchasing such a device.
I traded my iPhone 7 in for an... iPhone 7. Seems sales are skewing for the 7 over the 8 as well. I wonder why. For me, I want a metal backed phone (not dual glass). The 7 is more rigid, more stable, and more durable. Wireless charging be damned. It is a novelty. Placing a phone on a pad vs. plugging in a charger...either way the phone needs to be in a fixed area. Users are not demanding these things.
I traded my iPhone 7 in for an... iPhone 7. Seems sales are skewing for the 7 over the 8 as well. I wonder why. For me, I want a metal backed phone (not dual glass). The 7 is more rigid, more stable, and more durable. Wireless charging be damned. It is a novelty. Placing a phone on a pad vs. plugging in a charger...either way the phone needs to be in a fixed area. Users are not demanding these things.
There's also no focusing, which is what causes problems along with the amount of power. And the amount of power is miniscule. From back of napkin figures:
With an iris id system, you're exposed to a diffuse IR light of about 1 milliWatt per eye at ten inches distance.
With a 3D system like FaceId, your whole head probably gets 200 milliWatt of structured (dot) IR light, or about a half milliWatt per eye. Plus maybe the diffiuse light, or let's say 1.5 milliWatt.
When you're outside in the sun, with your pupils contracted, each eye receives about 10 mW, of which about 5 mW is IR light. So sunlight constantly delivers several times the power of the brief flash of IR that facial id would use.
But do you directly look at the sun for one second? You need to directly look at faceid thing many times a day.
If you're on iOS 11, press the power button five times. TouchID is disabled until you enter your passcode. I don't see how moving from TouchID to FaceID improves security against the kind of hostile attacks you describe.
I actually think some of Apple's best innovations are often overlooked.
iPod click wheel
MagSafe
Multi-touch
I don't understand why they had to rid of MagSafe. It was awesome.
Click wheel was a solution navigating to thousands of songs instead of just clicking one by one.
Multi-touch was incredible with pinch-to-zoom and the ability to scroll through songs and contacts faster than a click wheel.
Apple hasn't been the same since Jobs died. He truly was their heart and soul. Now Apple feels heartless and soulless. Like the Gotye song, "Now Apple is just some company that we used to know."
Still unsure about Face ID. Perhaps the X won't sell as what everyone is expecting it would. Too many alternatives that are just as good. Everyone knows that Apple will announce a better variant of it after 10 months.
That’s not on by default. You have to enable 5 clicks in the Emergency SOS settings. By default it’s holding volume up + power. At least on the iPhone 8.