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> Apple's insistence on only having face ID For now. I'd wager in the next year or two we will see TouchID in the power button or under the screen. Are there A
by joshstrange 6y ago
> Apple's insistence on only having face ID
For now. I'd wager in the next year or two we will see TouchID in the power button or under the screen. Are there Android phones with this tech already? Yes, you can almost always count on Android phones to have new types of tech before Apple but in my experience Apple's version is much more polished/solid/secure as whole. Android had "Face unlock" for at least a year or two before Apple but it was total crap. I had a coworker who had it and he ended up turning it off because it was so buggy/unreliable. FaceID for me had been pretty rock solid and I'm very happy with it. I'll be happier with a TouchID backup but I'm more than willing to wait for a secure and seamless version and not something rushed to market.
- fastball 6y ago> you can almost always count on Android phones to have new types of tech before Apple but in my experience Not really true in the case of TouchID though. Sure other things had fingerprint scanners before iPhone but they sucked hard.
- gambiting 6y agoI don't think OP says they were better, just that they existed on Android phones before apple had them.
- joshstrange 6y agoCorrect. My wording could have been better probably. I would never put Android phone's face unlock in the same category as FaceID (nor their fingerprint vs TouchID). It's been a while since I've seen tech on an Android phone that Apple later implemented where the Apple's was just equivalent to the existing Android version, it's always a bigger stop forward.
- user-the-name 6y agoThis is because Apple will not add a feature just to tick a box or add a bullet point to a feature list, they will only add it if they can actually make it work well.