I have one, and I find that it works maybe 80% of the time, where as TouchID was almost perfect.
but only 2nd generation touch-id. on my 5s i probably have to type in my passcode more often than not. retraining doesn‘t help either.
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My wife had an iPhone 5, which was really slow, didn’t have much memory, and being 32 bit you couldn’t download new apps. so I told her last spring that she can get the new phone this year, since I had gotten the last one several years ago(I have a 6+).
I was hoping she would pick either the 8 or 8+ but she wanted the X. She went to the closest Apple Store November 3rd and stood in line and got one.
So far she has been very happy with the phone, as far as features and performance goes. Never having a Touch ID phone meant she wasn’t attached to that technology, so for her FaceID was not a problem. It works pretty seamlessly for her, including for Apple Pay.
Personally I have a problem with spending $1150 for a phone especially if you buy the warranty and any accessories so I’m not looking at buying one but I can’t find any performance flaws with the phone itself.
there‘s probably some bias to justify a 1000€+ purchase after the fact.
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Not really though. I remember back in the day i could get the latest iPhone either for 649 Euro or for 1 Euro on a 39€ plan. Then it became 749€ or so on the 6S and ever worse since. Now it starts at 399€ on a 59€ plan! Its quite a price hike
yup, they raised their prices by 100% over a few years, far beyond inflation. hard to believe that a top-of-the-line phone (or laptop) is now twice as expensive to manufacture (and justifies double the margin) as it was seven years ago. they seem to revert to pre-jobs-times. a largely expanded product line, more complexity in software, less attention to details and higher prices.
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Everybody says my daughter looks like me. Sure enough, she can't unlock my iPhone X.
What has been tricked is the mind of people believing in clever viral videos.
face id has a chance of 1:1000000 of being unlocked by a stranger. so if they sell 70 millions of those phones, 70 of them will be unlocked by a stranger at the first try. as some iphones probably see hundreds of strangers every day (e.g. the iphone of a shop owner lying on a sales desk), there will be a lot of false positives, especially because you just have to be in the vicinity of the phone to trigger an unlock-attempt. so, comparing 1:50000 (touch-id) to 1:1000000 with faceid is a bit misleading, because it‘s a different unlocking mechanism. either way, if you want to keep your phone secure, you won‘t use biometrics anyway, faceID and the likes are just a tradeoff between security and convenience
The failure rate will definitely be higher with family members - which doesn‘t have to mean that people‘s personal pattern-recognition („your daughter looks like you“) works the same way the iphone‘s machine learning does.
