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Magic Keyboard With Touch ID Compatible With All M1 Macs, But Only Sold With iMac For Now
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It would be great if Apple allowed third parties to integrate TouchID into their keyboards - Logitech MX Master keyboard with TouchID would be perfect!
But “lightning” is just the connector. And it seems to be clever enough to work with usb3 and usb-c.
... but "USB-C" is just the connector too.
Apple is presently differentiating the connector type between host and client devices.
You can attach a Lightning port equipped client device to charging or host devices equipped with either USB Type-C or USB Type-A ports as you prefer.
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I really don't care one way or the other. Here's Apple's feedback site, knock yourself out: https://www.apple.com/feedback/
Perhaps you didn't understand my post or you confused it with another in your reply.
I responded to your denial of @cmaier's statement that "the light from the keyboard ... distracts from the light on the display". Maybe it's not a distraction for you, but that doesn't mean it isn't for others.
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Are you for real? FaceID in a keyboard? Are we gonna ask for FaceID in Apple Pencil next?
And tic tac boards are not true touch type keyboards. The keys are too small, the movement is too small etc. Having backlight which costs practically nothing helps
My feedback is my wallet. I don’t need a link for something like that but thanks anyways.
I’m not confused. You stated why you don’t like backlit option and that’s fine. It’s not hard to find people who don’t like something such as a backlight for whatever reason they can come up with. There’s a lot of people disappointed that they don’t have it. They’ll also speak with their wallet.
Seems like an artificial limitation and slight nudge to have Touch ID only work with M1 macs and not the Intels with the T2... I would have liked to get one with Touch ID since my unlock with Apple Watch is so unreliable on my network for some reason. Haven’t figured out why it only works 3/10 times. They should have an unlock with iPhone option too where you use Face ID on your phone or iPad to unlock your Mac.
Yes.
As with the laptops it probably works as a sleep/wake button in addition to Touch ID.
why would your login password need to be so long? Not seeing the reason for that. Windows even lets you use a simple pin to unlock your pc nowadays.
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How is it confusing? You know it's TouchID because they tell you, so just press on it with your finger to wake/unlock your iMac. That doesn't exactly require much explanation, does it?
If the person's computer is a work computer it may have a corporate password policy forcing a long multi-word password.
Folks have seemed to manage okay with the combination button/touch-sensor on Macbook keyboards the past few years. Same for several generations of iphones.
Why do you suppose they'd suddenly have trouble understanding the concept?
Well apparently you can't buy it separately anyways, so just get a third-party keyboard with a backlight if you want one. Sort of silly to pass on an entire computer just because the included keyboard doesn't have a backlight (which it never has, as far as I know). My iMac screen itself illuminates my keyboard anyway - never NOT been able to see any keys in a dark room. I guess if you use the keyboard across the room from your iMac in the dark you may need a backlight, but I'm guessing that's not a very common use case.
Well, we already have the Unlock with Apple Watch feature. Not exactly sure why they don't allow you to unlock with an iPhone, though.
I've never experienced any discomfort while using the Magic Mouse. My only complaint is there are certain programs where the tiniest side-to-side movement on the top surface of the mouse with your finger will cause the program to cycle through a ribbon menu, etc. with no way to disable that behavior. For people like you who don't like the Magic Mouse, as you said - you have options. Everyone's happy! I don't see the issue.
Yup.
Depends on the company and the industry they're in; some deal with more sensitive stuff than others such as in the financial/medical sectors.
You get used to it - choosing a passphrase that "flows" when typing it.
It’s common that businesses mandate password rules for their employees, that included length. It’s just good security to enforce password rules and minimum lengths, often 8 characters or more.
The company had to have ISO certifications which includes a password policy so we could work for clients like banks and certain government entities.
In a nutshell, Windows 10 PIN is just a shortcut to unlock the security system which will let you in. It only works with physical access and reverts to asking the password after a handful of failed attempts, which is utterly inadequate to brute force even the simplest PINs.
Another problem is, that the password unlocks the keys used for disk encryption. Many (most?) systems store these on the same disk (but on a different partition), so an attacker can attempt to brute force the password programmatically and gain access to the encryption keys. Newer systems (M1 and Intels with T2) store these keys in the secure enclave with brute force protection, but this doesn't work for removable devices and no company will write policies differentiated by hardware models.
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