New iPad Air's Touch ID Power Button an 'Incredible Feat of Engineering' According to Apple VP

[ilikewhey]

Which is why everyone's use case is different. I see many people wearing gloves in the stores as well.

Gloves are not mandatory, mask is absolutely mandatory 99 percent of the time. I really don’t understand why folks are pushing the glove narrative, there is nothing to prove by going there.

 

[I7guy]

Gloves are not mandatory, mask is absolutely mandatory 99 percent of the time. I really don’t understand why folks are pushing the glove narrative, there is nothing to prove by going there.

Nobody is pushing anything. I'm relaying what I'm seeing people do; many are wearing gloves. You can't tell the glove wearers that touch id is better because you *don't* have to wear gloves, but masks are mandatory. Convoluted line of reasoning, but I hope you get my point.

 

[ilikewhey]

Nobody is pushing anything. I'm relaying what I'm seeing people do; many are wearing gloves. You can't tell the glove wearers that touch id is better because you *don't* have to wear gloves, but masks are mandatory. Convoluted line of reasoning, but I hope you get my point.

never said touch id is better, you can go back and check every comment i made, but since you mention it, i can absolutely tell anyone regardless if they wear gloves or not. that touch id does make more sense with the current situation, your the one bringing convoluted counter point by bringing glove wearers into the whole conversation. again, i repeat, no airport, major cities, or any transit hub require folks to wear gloves, but mask is "a must" in every regard.

 

[I7guy]

never said touch id is better, you can go back and check every comment i made, but since you mention it, i can absolutely tell anyone regardless if they wear gloves or not. that touch id does make more sense with the current situation, your the one bringing convoluted counter point by bringing glove wearers into the whole conversation. again, i repeat, no airport, major cities, or any transit hub require folks to wear gloves, but mask is "a must" in every regard.

So back to...it depends on individual use case as to what is better and what one prefers. I hope the iphone 12 (or 11s) has both, but if the iphone 12 (or 11s) does not have touch id, it wouldn't bother me.

 

[Peperino]

It’s right up alongside of android “innovation” if increasing screen resolution, if that’s the case.

Comparing Apple's failure to innovate to another company that may also fails it is pretty pathetic
But as always, you look for lame excuses to justify Apple's poor innovation.

 

[cupcakes2000]

Comparing Apple's failure to innovate to another company that may also fails it is pretty pathetic
But as always, you look for lame excuses to justify Apple's poor innovation.

Dunno mate. My iPad Pro has all but replaced a computer for me, in a professional capacity. It’s a pretty innovative piece of kit.

 

[I7guy]

Comparing Apple's failure to innovate to another company that may also fails it is pretty pathetic
But as always, you look for lame excuses to justify Apple's poor innovation.

Based on the above, Android hasn't innovated either, unless you count the screen resolution as innovation.

 

[Peperino]

Based on the above, Android hasn't innovated either, unless you count the screen resolution as innovation.

ANd once again you talk about other company's failure to justify Apple's ones. Once again you have shown that you have no facts to support Apple's innovation.

 

[I7guy]

ANd once again you talk about other company's failure to justify Apple's ones. Once again you have shown that you have no facts to support Apple's innovation.

In that vein, I'm questioning your definition of innovation as it seems to be a sliding scale based on whatever criteria. Your personal definition is not consistent with what some others think. Except at the end of the day, Apple's valuation, profits and ecosystem seems to be what Apple's customers are looking for, regardless of the labels applied to their products. It's pretty pathetic that this is not recognized.

 

[Peperino]

Apple's valuation, profits and ecosystem seems to be what Apple's customers are looking for, regardless of the labels applied to their products. It's pretty pathetic that this is not recognized.

That A company is profitable and its valution is good, that does not mean they are innovating. Look at what happened to the Macbook entire line, that they failed even to fix a major problem with the keyboard for over 4 years. Needless to say that other laptops are better. ANd the current iPHone 12 upgrade... how pathetic is to not even include a charger cable, earpods and more sadly not even increase the capacity, which are the same as last year....??

 

[I7guy]

That A company is profitable and its valution is good, that does not mean they are innovating. Look at what happened to the Macbook entire line, that they failed even to fix a major problem with the keyboard for over 4 years. Needless to say that other laptops are better. ANd the current iPHone 12 upgrade... how pathetic is to not even include a charger cable, earpods and more sadly not even increase the capacity, which are the same as last year....??

Innovating is not binary. Because you may not like one thing that doesn't mean the company isn't generally innovating, which Apple is in many other areas. Innovation can be big or small.

The diatribe on the charger cable and earpods has zero to do with innovation. The iphone 12, while still being an iphone, has new and innovative features. Memory capacity is irrelevant to the discussion of innovation.

You are taking your own criticisms of Apple and using them to ignore all of the innovative stuff they are doing.

 

[kobberrød]

So if that was such an engineering challenge, why they haven't put FaceID on the new iPad Air?

Will we ever get TrueDepth cameras on other models, or now iPads Pro will get fingerprint-button?