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Apple marketing sounds so hi-tech, so unique, yet China is selling RF fingerprint readers by the truck load. They're so cheap to manufacture that you can sell

by yapcguy 13y ago

Apple marketing sounds so hi-tech, so unique, yet China is selling RF fingerprint readers by the truck load. They're so cheap to manufacture that you can sell them for $1 and still make a profit. http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/325177895/High_Performance_RF_True_Skin_Fingerprint.html http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/325177895/High_Performance... http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/rf-fingerprint-reader.html http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/rf-fingerprint-reader.html

jamesaguilar 13y ago
You have changed the subject. We're talking about effectiveness, not cost to implement.
corporalagumbo 13y ago
Apple marketing sounds so hi-tech, so unique That's exactly the point. It doesn't matter whether it's really hi-tech or unique or not. It's Apple's ability to present these things in a way which just makes you salivate that matters. This is a point which seems so hard for tech people to understand... it doesn't matter if you think people should see through Apple's claims, the spoils go to Apple because they know, as seemingly no other company on earth does, how to entrance people. A few key features, lavish, presentation, a feeling of luxury... that's what builds anticipation and excitement. Apple's closest equivalent are food companies, who have mastered the dramatic, salivatory description of products.
- draugadrotten 13y ago
  > Apple's closest equivalent are food companies, who have mastered the dramatic, salivatory description of products. This ad campaign illustrates the point. http://scoopertino.com/apple-blasts-into-supermarkets-with-revolutionary-apple-water/ http://scoopertino.com/apple-blasts-into-supermarkets-with-r...
arrrg 13y ago
How does that even begin to matter even a little a bit? The only thing that is relevant is whether it works. Everything else is irrelevant.
bdcravens 13y ago
You're diverting. The point was the idea that the fingerprint sensor was merely taking a photo of a fingerprint, which was incorrect.
goblin89 13y ago
So RF readers are inexpensive, does it make fingerprint scanner easier to defeat?

by yapcguy 13y ago

jamesaguilar 13y ago

You have changed the subject. We're talking about effectiveness, not cost to implement.

corporalagumbo 13y ago

Apple marketing sounds so hi-tech, so unique That's exactly the point. It doesn't matter whether it's really hi-tech or unique or not. It's Apple's ability to present these things in a way which just makes you salivate that matters. This is a point which seems so hard for tech people to understand... it doesn't matter if you think people should see through Apple's claims, the spoils go to Apple because they know, as seemingly no other company on earth does, how to entrance people. A few key features, lavish, presentation, a feeling of luxury... that's what builds anticipation and excitement. Apple's closest equivalent are food companies, who have mastered the dramatic, salivatory description of products.

draugadrotten 13y ago
> Apple's closest equivalent are food companies, who have mastered the dramatic, salivatory description of products. This ad campaign illustrates the point. http://scoopertino.com/apple-blasts-into-supermarkets-with-revolutionary-apple-water/ http://scoopertino.com/apple-blasts-into-supermarkets-with-r...

arrrg 13y ago

How does that even begin to matter even a little a bit? The only thing that is relevant is whether it works. Everything else is irrelevant.

bdcravens 13y ago

You're diverting. The point was the idea that the fingerprint sensor was merely taking a photo of a fingerprint, which was incorrect.

goblin89 13y ago

So RF readers are inexpensive, does it make fingerprint scanner easier to defeat?