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I can't believe it took this long and it was left to Apple to "innovate" on this. Adding a fingerprint scanner to every keyboard and mouse has been a no-brainer

I can't believe it took this long and it was left to Apple to "innovate" on this. Adding a fingerprint scanner to every keyboard and mouse has been a no-brainer for at least a decade. The scanners cost $10! And adding them to smartphone and tablets should have happened from the get go. We're talking orders of magnitude in simplification of security. And its dead obvious. So what the hell took so long? And why does it take Apple to finally do it?

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mariusz79 13y ago
Two words: Atrix 4G. Google it and then let's talk how innovating the new IPhone is.
- JaggedJax 13y ago
  The Atrix 4G was a device a bit ahead of it's time. That coupled with impressive but expensive peripherals (laptop dock) kept it from becoming a breakout device. Also, the fingerprint reader was one of the sliding ones and I got fed up with it very quickly. You're right though. With all this discussion about the fingerprint reader, I just keep hearing "Atrix 4g" being shouted and echoing around inside my head.
Nicholas_C 13y ago
Bloomberg has been on it for a while. All of the newer terminals have fingerprint scanners.
r00fus 13y ago
Maybe Apple finally figured out how to make it not suck [1] and could implement it in a manner that instantly has millions of devices/accounts so building it into your app (if an API is offered) could be a feasible auth method? Are fingerprint scanners a commodity? Apple purchasing $300M of IP, and retooling their production process seems to indicate that it's not as simply as gluing a $10 part onto your product. [1] http://gizmodo.com/how-the-iphone-5ss-fingerprint-scanner-works-and-what-1265703794 http://gizmodo.com/how-the-iphone-5ss-fingerprint-scanner-wo...