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One Analyst Thinks the Next iPhone Will Have a USB-C Port, Smaller Notch, and Touch ID Under Display

"The notch is amazing. Other companies copied it, so we've made it smaller, lighter, and 3x as fast in graphical processing. Lack of innovation my ass. Oh yeah, it will now cost six million dollars."
 
Never buying a phone with a notch.
Never buying an iPhone without a tactile home button. There are already too many things on the touch screen competing for my input.
Never buying a $350 smart speaker.
Never buying a $6000 all-in-one desktop.
Never buying a MacBook "Pro" without USB ports.

"Apple revises revenue projection down..." What a shock.
 
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afir93 said:
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 Face 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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So TouchID under the screen is better than both as you wouldn't have a home button to be duped into putting your finger on.
 
While I believe touchid was a better experience for me , Apple needs to choose a direction and stick to it. I can’t see them offering touchid again, unless they are worried that android devices will have it In the future......
 
If they truly add a USB-C it is going to lead to longer lines than we saw with the original iPhone.
 
Quicksilver867 said:
Watch first, 100%. Opening up FaceID traffic to a USB or ThunderBolt connection will probably make Apple uneasy.
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I'm not sure if security would be the issue here, given today's encryption standards. For example you can already unlock your Apple Watch via your iPhone or your Mac via your Apple Watch, both wirelessly, so I'm not sure if a wired unlock process for your Mac (which, if anything, should be more secure than a wireless one) would be much of a security concern if the other two aren't either.
 
The only somewhat reasonable prediction is USB-C. Lightning had a good run, but enough years have passed and Apple could decide it's time to change and make the iPhone coherent with the iPad (a 2019 regular iPad also changing to USB-C to make it more "Pro") and the Macs.

Touch ID is gone. Apple is all in Face ID. It works, works well and will only improve making orientation, inclinations and other factors less important.

Smaller notch is also not that probable. To implement the notch Apple had to mess all it's design guidelines so that developers could work with and around it. Now that the notch is 2 years old and adoption is probably really starting I don't see Apple messing it all. Removing the notch is probably their real objective.
 
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Re-added Touch ID as a big feature is going to be awesome at the keynote. Fake clapping live and befuddlement from the live chat.
 
joueboy said:
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.
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Charging the device is the only thing many people use the port for at all. Allowing it to use USB-C would be great.
 
MrGimper said:
So TouchID under the screen is better than both as you wouldn't have a home button to be duped into putting your finger on.
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I'm not sure how you get to that conclusion. Without an additional method of confirmation (such as double-tapping the side button), a fingerprint sensor below the screen would have the same problem as it has now, if not larger: you could be accidentally touching or tapping the sensor area of the screen just as the prompt comes up. It would probably be even more exploitable since it'd be easier for apps to get the user to touch a certain part of the screen, rather than the home button.

Now this wouldn't be an issue if a fingerprint sensor below the screen required you to double-press the side button or something like that as an additional confirmation, but at that point it would be more cumbersome to use aswell: touch the fingerprint area on the screen to authenticate, then double-press the side button after that. Two steps as opposed to one like with Face ID or the current Touch ID implementation.
 
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Even though Apple have left things a tad late now - the fact most people cant even manage to video in landscape despite years of use then do they really deserve more features at overpriced costs?
 
Can’t see this being correct. As surely Touch ID under the display needs a certain panel.

USB type C port i think is pretty much confirmed anyway after seeing it on the iPad.
 
MrGimper said:
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.
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Again, you seem to misunderstand the difference between authentication and action. With Face ID, authentication is automatic but action is still deliberate.

Face ID will authenticate you for a purchase but your action to complete the purchase is still deliberate. Face ID will authenticate you at the lock screen but it won’t take you to the home screen. The word “unlock” appears to mean different things to people who misinterpret this.

As for Touch ID, there’s a well known history of it doing things without your permission, such as buying $99 In App purchases. I’ve also had Touch ID automatically purchase something as I pressed the Home button to get out of a site because the button and Touch ID are shared. This can’t happen in Face ID because again, authentication is automatic but action is deliberate.
 
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I actually think it’s semi-plausible that Apple could bring back Touch ID. Especially if they brand it in conjunction with Face ID, having a two-factor identification system.
 
decimortis said:
USB-C is a feature that would get me to finally upgrade my 7 Plus.
I went from 3G to 5s because of fingerprint scanner. I went from 5s to 7+ because of waterproofing. No feature since the 7+ has given me any reason to upgrade, but USB-C on the iPhone would do it.
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Going to usb C would also require lots of people to switch their headphones again...unless they make a dongle for a dongle for a dongle
 
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The USB-C port is a 100% certainty. It's not Apple's choice to do so. It's the European Union regulator that is forcing Apple to adopt a "non-proprietary" standard. This is old news.
 
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