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It would be cool if they built it into the touchpad in a future generation. I'm guessing once they can figure out fingerprint through the glass on iPhone they'l
by chadlavi 6y ago
It would be cool if they built it into the touchpad in a future generation. I'm guessing once they can figure out fingerprint through the glass on iPhone they'll do it in the touchpad, too.
- anaerobicover 6y agoI'd have some concerns with this being trigger-able without positive intent to do so if it were in my mouse or trackpad. Having a small interruption can be beneficial for safety.
- chadlavi 6y agoit could always come in the form of "click on this button," and it reads the fingerprint when you click the button.
- TheRealSteel 6y agoI've always wondered why they can't just build a fingerprint sensor into a capacitive touchscreen. After all, a fingerprint sensor IS just a really high density capacitive touch sensor right? Or is that not right? Google gives me no answers and I assumed it was not fundamentally impossible, just that it was two separate companies with two separate production lines making touchscreens and fingerprint sensors so it was hard in practice due to the realities of supply chains. Many existing fingerprint sensors, like TouchID, were glass, and I wonder why they can't just make it bigger and put an OLED under that glass (even if it was only dense enough for fingerprints at one spot). Yet here we are, 4 years after the downgrade too FaceID, and still not a single phone in existence with a capacitive fingerprint sensor in the screen. Am I wrong about the technology or what?