TouchID Omitted from iPhone X, iPhone 7S will have it. Will you get 7S if next iPhone will have?

[Starfyre]

As the question states, TouchID will be omitted from iPhone X. The iPhone 7S will have it. Would you get the 7S this year if you know next year's iPhone will have it?

I know some people think it is dumb to get the 7S because you are "obsoleting yourself", but the reality is, the iPhone X will be incomplete and not capture everything the 7S has because of Apple engineering failing to build in TouchID into the OLED display as one of the major technical challenges that simply could not be incorporated in time.

It also makes sense for Apple to not make the iPhone X so good that no one except extremely budget conscious people will buy the 7S. The only real competitive advantage to iPhone X will probably be the OLED display and radical design, potentially enhanced camera over the 7S despite the lack of Touch ID.

Of course the marketing in next week's announcement will make it seem like Face Recognition is the future, but the reality of it is, no matter what Tim Cook says to downplay the lack of TouchID... failure to include TouchID makes the iPhone X not fully complete of all features that should be in it. For all we know, next year Tim Cook could say that TouchID was still popular in the ecosystem, so they "brought it back" into next years enhanced iPhone X/8.

Given this fact, would you still get the iPhone X or would you get the iPhone 7S because it has the TouchID you know will come into the OLED model for next year's iPhone?

 

[44267547]

I'm embracing Face ID as the future, even if it means the 7s retains Touch ID. Apple isn't going to compromise the integrity of someone's security if they were not fully confident of Face ID's functionality. Regardless, Apple doesn't need to market The consumers security, they need to ensure it's protected, which they will do.

 

[708692]

Two words I've come to associate with the whole iPhone 8 announcement / release. Disappointed and bored.

I was all ready to buy it but the lack of Touch ID, the stupid notch, stock constraints, etc etc, I'm bored and fed up. 7s for me.

 

[profets]

As the question states, TouchID will be omitted from iPhone X. The iPhone 7S will have it. Would you get the 7S this year if you know next year's iPhone will have it?

I know some people think it is dumb to get the 7S because you are "obsoleting yourself", but the reality is, the iPhone X will be incomplete and not capture everything the 7S has because of Apple engineering failing to build in TouchID into the OLED display as one of the major technical challenges that simply could not be incorporated in time.

It also makes sense for Apple to not make the iPhone X so good that no one except extremely budget conscious people will buy the 7S. The only real competitive advantage to iPhone X will probably be the OLED display and radical design, potentially enhanced camera over the 7S despite the lack of Touch ID.

Of course the marketing in next week's announcement will make it seem like Face Recognition is the future, but the reality of it is, no matter what Tim Cook says to downplay the lack of TouchID... failure to include TouchID makes the iPhone X not fully complete of all features that should be in it. For all we know, next year Tim Cook could say that TouchID was still popular in the ecosystem, so they "brought it back" into next years enhanced iPhone X/8.

Given this fact, would you still get the iPhone X or would you get the iPhone 7S because it has the TouchID you know will come into the OLED model for next year's iPhone?

If Touch ID goes away and is replaced by superior biometric authentication, it’s not coming back. It’s far from a failure. This could have been planned the whole time. I guess we’ll see on Tuesday with how iOS 11 is designed and works on the OLED iPhone. It could be as simple as removing the bezels to make more screen space resulted in wanting to remove the home button as well. It sure sounds like the interaction with the OLED iPhone will be similar to the iPad Pro with iOS 11 (with regard to the absence of a home button).

 

[Sifko36]

I don’t see the loss of touchID a failure. Am I a little disappointed that they couldn’t get it working behind the screen,yeah. But technology is evolving and faceID is the new hot thing. But I will be honest I’m still holding out hope for touchID being incorporated in some way on the 8,X,Edition (whatever you wanna call it) there’s been fewer part leaks this year. So we shall see what happens

 

[JoeyD74]

My finger prints are so screwed up from work this could be good for me if it works.

 

[EugW]

We'll see what happens, but I'm not so optimistic about FaceID.

 

[bufffilm]

As the question states, TouchID will be omitted from iPhone X. The iPhone 7S will have it. Would you get the 7S this year if you know next year's iPhone will have it?

I know some people think it is dumb to get the 7S because you are "obsoleting yourself", but the reality is, the iPhone X will be incomplete and not capture everything the 7S has because of Apple engineering failing to build in TouchID into the OLED display as one of the major technical challenges that simply could not be incorporated in time.

It also makes sense for Apple to not make the iPhone X so good that no one except extremely budget conscious people will buy the 7S. The only real competitive advantage to iPhone X will probably be the OLED display and radical design, potentially enhanced camera over the 7S despite the lack of Touch ID.

Of course the marketing in next week's announcement will make it seem like Face Recognition is the future, but the reality of it is, no matter what Tim Cook says to downplay the lack of TouchID... failure to include TouchID makes the iPhone X not fully complete of all features that should be in it. For all we know, next year Tim Cook could say that TouchID was still popular in the ecosystem, so they "brought it back" into next years enhanced iPhone X/8.

Given this fact, would you still get the iPhone X or would you get the iPhone 7S because it has the TouchID you know will come into the OLED model for next year's iPhone?

Once more you are making assumptions and you do know where that leads, don't you?

If iPhone X abandons TouchID, then one would hope you as the buyer...trusts Apple to deliver on a suitable replacement to TouchID.

Or you could just buy the standard models...and be safe. And boring.

Either way...I don't care.