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One Analyst Thinks the Next iPhone Will Have a USB-C Port, Smaller Notch, and Touch ID Under Display
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In my opinion, you just literally listed all the reasons why TouchID is better than FaceID. You have to consciously authenticate. You have to intentionally place your registered finger on the sensor when required. There is no chance of you accidentally authenticating as is the case with FaceID, and there is the benefit of not having to look at your phone to authenticate, such as if you are wearing your phone on your arm at the gym, or if it is lying on the desk.
I'd take TouchID back in a heartbeat.
I really hope TouchID comes back. I put a little piece of tape over the front camera (and on my laptop) so faceID is not for me and never will be. I’ll keep my 6s for as long as I can then upgrade to the 7 or 8 if it TouchID doesn’t come back ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Apple adopt a industry standard AFTER everyone else? Swine will take flight before that day comes.
They only way Apple replaces Lightning if a new USB standard comes out and they adopt it first. They have a thing for being first.
Phablets, waterproofing and wireless charging?
I think it’s a bit redundant, looking at the phone is just as easy as using your fingerprint. And it would just add to costs.
DXO One was there with the same basic concept before DJI. It was popular for a few minutes and is now discontinued.
DJI has long been as professional. They're one of, if not the, big players in drones and drone photography/film - they're all over the place for news coverage and filming. The Osmo capitalizes on how good their gimbals are, and a gimbal is something no phone will ever have. They made a very smart move to capitalize on smartphones to provide something they cannot. The Osmo isn't just something that could eat into Apple, but all phone manufacturers... but there... the phone isn't required, it's used as a bigger viewfinder than what's already on it and that's it.
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Apple adopt a industry standard AFTER everyone else? Swine will take flight before that day comes.
They only way Apple replaces Lightning if a new USB standard comes out and they adopt it first. They have a thing for being first.
You mean first like they were with USB-C? You know... on the Macbook?
Yep, pretty much what I am saying aswell in the comment you're responding to. Especially with Ming-Chi Kuo's prediction of Touch ID not coming back. I just contested the statement that there would be no upside or use-case at all where having both is useful.
You might not have used a device with FaceID yet. There is a differentiation between actions requiring more security and less security. The former still require intentional action, often pressing the side button (I think it is pressing it twice for ApplePay) while others like autofilling credentials on a webpage fall into the second category that don't require intentional action (beyond looking at the screen) while on devices with TouchID, you have to place your finger on the sensor for both kind of actions.
So an USB-C that serves no other purpose other than for charging your device, it's cool I mean I like that every iOS should be on USB-C along with other Apple products like headphones too. But until Apple opens this USB-C means nothing much to offer other than charging only. iPad Pro would have been a real game changer if they had more peripherals supported on that port.
USB-C would be a very welcome addition so the whole world can standardise on one port until wireless truly takes off. However lets let TouchID die, I don't want to go back to taking my gloves off when he have something easier to use and more secure. The notch, work out how to get that under the screen and we'll have something truly groundbreaking.
And the company producing it filed for bankruptcy (though the DxO One might have been only a small factor in this).
I've had an XS Max since launch.....
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Or someone points your phone at your face.....
If it has all of these things, I will buy it in an instant. If it has none of these things, I will not buy it at all.
Good point, but this argument can also be made in favor of Face ID over Touch ID. If you're making a purchase in the App or iTunes Store then all it takes with Touch ID is to place your finger on the home button, something that you might be doing for various other reasons aswell (i.e. when you're about to close an app, open the app switcher or open reachability, and at that moment the confirmation window pops up). There have even been a number of apps over the last couple months that purposefully exploited this by asking you to place your finger on the home button for various reasons and then spamming you with an excessive in-app-purchase out of nowhere.
With Face ID, you need to deliberately double-tap the side button to confirm a purchase, and it's highly unlikely that you'd be tricked into doing that by an app at just the very moment where the confirmation prompt pops up. So in this area, Touch ID is much more exploitable because the act can be performed passively/unintentionally, while Face ID requires an active act of confirmation that you rarely ever do any other time.
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