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Ming-Chi Kuo Predicts iPhone 8 Will Omit Touch ID Entirely, Come in Limited Color Options
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LOL! On the microscopic (nanoscopic?) parsing of Kuo's published statement: "Kuo said NO/YES/MAYBE."
I couldn't care less as I am keeping my trusted SE.
But for those that do care, I say: R.E.L.A.X.
It is quite possible that Apple has executed a perfect "Hail Mary Pass" to obfuscate the competition, thus, including Kuo's reporting.
... Or, not.
I couldn't care less as I am keeping my trusted SE.
But for those that do care, I say: R.E.L.A.X.
It is quite possible that Apple has executed a perfect "Hail Mary Pass" to obfuscate the competition, thus, including Kuo's reporting.
... Or, not.
I have a smashed iPhone 6 that's almost 3 years old and Touch ID never fails even with dirty fingers.
That is what I said when Apple removed the headphone jack. I still have my 6s and use the headphone jack daily. When Apple no longer sells a phone with the versatile jack, I will be looking else where for a phone. I hope that day is a long way off.
I use TouchID for every app that supports it. Passwords suck, and I hope I never have to remember another password ever again.
And yes, I still have to remember my passwords because of other devices, but still.
And yes, I still have to remember my passwords because of other devices, but still.
Isn't the most obvious alternative to display-embedded Touch ID that it move into the Apple logo? It's located perfectly for the job and is an existing cut out in the phone's body.
To be fair, this guy spouts stuff then updates his predictions on a weekly basis, anyone could do that and eventually be right
Good catch! I do remember seeing something about the power button being bigger.
I think we just figured this one out!
I'm one of those that just wishes they would push back the release of this thing till spring if that's what it takes to get it right. They were already saying the manufacturing process on these would likely be delayed because of the OLED screen anyway so just do the announcement on everything and release the standard iPhones in September and these in 1Q2018 when they can sort these issues out. I'd rather wait a couple months and get a complete product than get a compromised product a few months earlier.
While that's sounds good in practice there are two problems:
1. People's phone contracts, especially Apple's upgrade program, are squarely aimed at a September release. You pay Apple money on the understanding come September you get a shiny new toy.
2. What if it takes six months to figure out? or nine months? etc. What if it was a nice idea but it's never going to be feasible at the scale Apple requires due to incredibly low yield rates and they can't get the cost down to the profit margin they require?
Don't get me wrong I would love to see Apple pull it off, it would be a world first, but sometimes we have to take a step back and admit just because we would like a feature doesn't mean we are going to get it.
I wonder how accurate the 3D scanning system might be, and whether it perhaps has the fidelity to take a fingerprint scan from a distance -- so without having to touch the device, but rather just hold your finger in front of it, print facing the screen. Now that would be a cool trick. Thus the answer that "it has no fingerprint scanner under the display" at least in the traditional sense is true. Well, we shall see.
That is not Ben Lovejoy making that assessment. Look at the article here and you can see he is just quoting someone from another article here.
The article is very odd. He picks seven out of 91 MacRumors articles and rates them on accuracy to arrive at the 44%. I just don't see how using seven out of 91 articles and not explaining how the seven were selected could be considered anything close to accurate.
There is a 2015 article here with a list of Ming-Chi Kuo's predictions and if you look at the list he has a pretty good track record.
Edit: Fixed typo Loveboy/Lovejoy
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Most of us who follow Apple rumors know exactly who he is (most accurate analyst making Apple predictions) and what his reputation is.
If they do remove Touch ID they must have a lot of faith in 3D facial recognition, i still don't see them removing it it's possible that they have found a way to embed it under the display or they will move it to either the power button or somewhere else.
Yep that's what I was wondering too. Maybe wink once for payment, wink twice to cancel?
Not buying the no Touch Id. Apple Pay goes bye bye on the phone if it's not there. No way they use facial, or retina, recognition.
I would love to know the stats on accuracy of non-obvious predictions he’s made (that nobody else predicted).
I'd rather have it on the power button or the back, in that order, but yeah, I agree.
