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TSMC Provides First Batch of Fingerprint Sensors for iPhone 6, iPad Air 2, and iPad Mini 3
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It is the sixth iteration of the iPad product line, despite being rebranded twice:
iPad, iPad 2 -> (Rebranded) -> iPad with Retina Display (iPad 3), iPad with Retina Display (iPad 4) -> (Rebranded) -> iPad Air (iPad 5), iPad Air (2014) (iPad 6)
We have 1 iPad (iPad2) for the whole household.
I might have upgraded sooner if there was a Multi-User Account iPad.
I've thought about buying another iPad for another person in the house but then thought we share just fine as is. if there was a multi-user version. I would buy a larger (than 16gb) iPad and have a section for my son so he can only do certain things. and then for my wife and I we could use it to the fullest or perhaps have certain apps set in certain ways or once you log-in, user-based apps are signed in with your credentials. (Facebook, Pinterest, Mail, etc.) AND with User Accounts I'd buy the larger/est size so we could all have our stuff within and and ready to go (like Mail downloading for each of us in separate Mail Apps.
Yep, their naming schemes are getting progressively worse. I mean honestly, why do they need to call the iPad Mini (with Retina) "iPad Mini with Retina Display"? They don't call the iPad Air "iPad Air with Retina". iPad 4 HAS Retina and that's what it's called but nobody would think the iPad Air has it since it's not called iPad Air with Retina. Very confusing.
I know that, but do you know whats easier than touch id? Opening a smart cover. You lift it and you're in, simple as that. I have nothing to hide on my ipad so i dont need a lock.
Since we're talking hypothetical: It also drives those who can't survive without a multiple user account on a tablet to Android or Windows. I wonder what makes more sense for people - buying multiple devices or buying a single device that matches that what they think they need?
It's a news supporting the rumours (not facts, that seems to confuse some) that touch ID will be included in the new iPads as well. I personally find that pretty interesting.
#somefinditinterestingnewsday
Other than cost, multiple devices should be the easiest way to keep everyone happy. I wonder how many people didn't buy an iPad because of no multiple user accounts? My guess is a very small number, but that's what it is, a guess. I still rarely see Windows or Android tablets out in the wild.
Man tell me about it. I have been on an iPhone 4 for years, it feels ancient. My upgrade comes around in June, but I am not sure whether to tough it out for 3 or 4 more months or to bite the bullet and just upgrade to a 5s.
The fingerprint sensor use should be expanded to eliminate all passwords for everything, not just for the purchase of $1.29 songs.
When ever Apple lets multiple Apple ID's on an iPad, it'd be a great way to let different users switch between profiles easily. Even an easy way to have your kids activate their own mode of the tablet or phone by letting them unlock it with their fingerprint.
Not to mention an added level of security for people who bring iPads with them as a BYOD for work.
Not that hard to see the value in that.
You may have nothing to hide, but you have stuff to lose...
It would be nice if I could JUST have TouchID with no passcode. The passcode shouldn't be mandatory. If it was solely my fingerprint then only MYSELF can get into my devices.
Not everyone uses their iPad solely for playing Angry Birds or Fappy Birds or whatever. Some people actually have important information on there.
true but what happens when you cut your finger or something and are unable to get into your phone? hopefully as touch id evolves so will how it is used, right now it is more of a convenient shortcut to having to enter a password. a different backup should be used instead of the normal passcode.
Nobody knows. Just as nobody knows how many people spend an extra few thousand bucks on 4 or 5 iPads because of no multiple user accounts. While some may consider it to be user-friendly of Apple to implement multi-user accounts the lack of it doesn't appear to be hurting it's business then, same goes for "features" like stylus, USB-port, root access etc. .
As for Windows or Android tablets - going by the market share statistics at least Android tablets should be all over the place, going by friends and family I rarely see something else than iPads, just out of my head I'd say a 15:2:0(MS) ratio, although most of our friends are a "certain crowd"
. And then there's the European market, which could appear to be the opposite, going by what some people say.Uhh, WHAT?
It's valuable for the same reason that it's valuable on a phone. It means that rather than going through the hassle of entering a PIN (which means most people will not bother, which means most people then can't take advantage of passwords stored on iCloud) people can use the fingerprint sensor with all the ease of the phone.
Also, the sooner the whole lineup has fingerprint sensors, the sooner new UI modalities are possible. In particular, one could imagine a quick slide of the finger across the home button (which could be tracked by the electronics that do the finger print recognition) could replace or augment the button click gesture. That seems small, but part of what make iOS work well is using very few gestures, but consistently so that each gesture becomes extremely powerful.
The one "problem" on iPads is that many people are used to the device opening when you open the cover. I'm not sure how you easily keep that nice functionality while still retaining security. The sledgehammer approach is to make the entire damn cover a fingerprint recognizer, so that it detects whatever part of the hand is picking it up to open. That's presumably not practical today, at the very least for cost reasons. Maybe you could build a fingerprint recognizer on the cover as well, so that you can fairly naturally place a finger on it as you open the cover? But even that is not trivial because now you need a way to communicate that information from the cover to the iPad, and a way to feed enough power into the cover to run the fingerprint electronics.
I'm not sure how Apple will deal with this. But I have to say, as a user, that I do want it all. I very much like having a secured iPad; but I also don't want the hassle of a PIN; and I ALSO like being able to just open the cover and the device is ready to work without any further "logging in".
But those are not the variables you gave in your initial post. The choices you offered were bigger screen or longer battery life.
I explained myself not clearly enough: assuming a larger screen, I'd rather have a small-bezel device with less battery than a large-bezel device with more battery. This doesn't mean less battery compared to the current iPhone: a larger screen model would be likely larger than the current iPhone even with smaller bezels.