I cannot get around the missing headphone jack. My headphones cost more than this new iPhone :(
ditto - I'm fearing dongles in all of our futures.
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#332This just in: Apple releases the Samsung Galaxy S8, calls it an iPhone
Would you say the same thing in reverse if Apple's event was a month earlier? These things have been in work for more than the past month.
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#333"Our vision has always been to create an iPhone that is entirely screen." so they failed thus far
It looks ok on the homescreen but they should disable the corners for videos.
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#334Are they aware that "Surgical‑grade stainless steel" means extremely cheap? Surgical‑grade stainless steel is designed to be single-use. They advertise their phone as having steel that is good enough to use once?
"Surgical‑grade stainless steel" doesn't mean anything. AFAICT, there's not certification or metal grading committee that says, "yes, you can call that 'Surgical‑grade stainless steel'. Accept no substitutes."
Beside, we're making phones, not doing surgery. What is that even supposed to mean to me the phone consumer? I understand that I'm supposed to think "better" because "surgical", but for all I know the standards aren't all that high because it just needs to be sharp, not durable.
IOW, it's just marketing, just like "military-grade encryption".
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#335I unlock my phone in my pocket with Touch ID all the time - ready to go and on the home screen by the time I've flipped it around in my hand. Feels like a straight downgrade in usability. also, some engineer at apple had to continuously grow a beard to test this
More and more, these devices are getting less usable by non-human beings. First the Touch ID and now Face ID...
So much speciesism.
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#336How does the "Home" gesture work with games that require gestures? If someone has a game that requires flicking items upward from the bottom of the screen, will that now be impossible? I don't have an iPhone, but I'm assuming that games like Flippy Knife and Flip Master, currently #1 and #2 on the Play store, could run into issues.
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#337Face ID seems like a great way to build a global database of people's faces. Not saying they will, but if they wanted to, that would be the way to do it.
Apple isn't Google, they have no interest in having a global fingerprint or face database.
Everything is done on device and the device is sealed tight enough to make hacking impractical for everyone except for state level actors.
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#338Infrared rays striking your eyes and face each time you look at your phone? Health implications?
Infrared light is all around you all the time. I'd assume the intensity levels here are extremely safe.
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#339I cannot get around the missing headphone jack. My headphones cost more than this new iPhone :(
Is the sound quality of the lightning to headphone jack adapter inferior to the built-in DAC of previous models?
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#340Projector-based 3D face recognition. Nifty. Shines an IR dot pattern onto the face, recognizes with that, works in the dark. Seems on continuously, wonder how much power draw.
Likely only on when the screen is on, and the device is locked. So maybe a total of 5 minutes a day?