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Re: iPhone X

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Post by lathiat »

lathiat wrote: post #512
mortenjorck wrote: post #439

I can understand the compromise of the "notch" for the sensor bar in portrait-oriented UIs. Some thoughtful juggling of the status bar, some added interaction, and you're all set. A reasonable trade-off. What I cannot understand at all is the compromise in landscape mode, for games and video. Rather than just black out the uneven area and limit the drawable area to the largest unbroken rectangle, everything Apple sho…

I had a similar though about video playback shown. Given it's OLED it seems like leaving it black should work OK in landscape

Here we go...

"Placing black bars makes your app feel cramped"

Screenshot from Apple design video: https://twitter.com/SteveMoser/status/907686208154816515

Re: iPhone X

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Post by trhway »

I think Jobs would be throwing it into aquarium until the black notch bar is removed. After looking at those photos the notch is pain in the eyes and pure abomination.

Re: iPhone X

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Post by coldtea »

pritambarhate wrote: post #322

Do you think phones are a "done" thing? I mean what we are seeing these days is more of an evolution than revolution. With iPhone X I think we know what the phone industry will move towards for next 4 years. All these features are cool and somewhat exciting but nothing groundbreaking that will change computing/communications forever. VR was supposed to be the game changer but it appears that it will also take around…

>Do you think phones are a "done" thing? I mean what we are seeing these days is more of an evolution than revolution.

Evolution is how we got from primitive sea creatures to man.

>What do you think will bring the next revolution in personal computing and communications?

I think that there have not been many revolutions in personal computing and communications. It's all incremental evolution. The only actual big revolution was the invention of the digital computer and of networking.

Beyond that, well:

There were computers at homes before everybody got one.

There were mobile phones, even touch phones, before the iPhone and mp3 players before the iPod.

There were tablets before the iPad.

There was "internet" and "www" (ARPAnet, minitel etc) before the internet and the world wide web.

There were social networks before Facebook.

Heck, there were actually newspaper columns chronicling a person's opinions and everyday life before blogs.

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Post by theshrike79 »

mrfusion wrote: post #555

How do you check notifications with your face? Or switch songs while jogging? Seems like it would unlock as soon as you look at it?

Just like with TouchID, it _unlocks_, but actually going to the home screen requires a press of the button.

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Post by theshrike79 »

dmayle wrote: post #245
amrrs wrote: post #223

Guess, With Face ID, Apple making Fbi or any govt authority's 'Hey can you open this iPhone' case much much harder. Like iPad replaced a log of information display in Public places like airports, Face ID could one day become our entry pass in many places. But in the age of Trump, what if Equifax fate to apple?

With Face ID, all the government has to do is detain you. Apple warned against evil twins, but they should have warned against anyone living with you. Family members, kids, roommates. Face ID: Don't go to sleep ever again

The same people can just slip your TouchID device under your finger and unlock it.

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Post by josteink »

mikestew wrote: post #148
matthberg wrote: post #87

It's interesting how Apple is moving away from being the first phone with a feature (face id, Samsung did that before, or oled displays that are edge to edge). I think the shift from that innovation is a maturing step, but also a sign that the company is aging poorly. They can no longer claim to be leading with creation, just with quality. More and more the focus in smartphone development, not just Apple, is on being…

face id, Samsung did that before No, they didn't. What Samsung did was release software that mimicked facial recognition. In fact, it mimicked it so well, people were convinced that Samsung did it first. What Samsung actually did was implement software that would sometimes coincidentally "recognize" a face, and more often would "recognize" a photo of the target user. What Samsung didn't do was implement facial recogn…

> What Samsung actually did was implement software that would sometimes coincidentally "recognize" a face, and more often would "recognize" a photo of the target user

No way unique to Samsung. Every implementation I've seen fails at this, even the latest one in Windows 10.

If you care about security, don't use it. That's my advice.

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Post by theshrike79 »

bhnmmhmd wrote: post #306
gbrown_ wrote: post #271

It seems like iPhone X would have been the perfect candidate to switch to USB-C. I had thought this would have been a long time coming given the USB-C only approach on MacBooks, yet it remains curiously absent. I really don't understand the fracture in the Apple ecosystem in regards to connectivity here. Can anyone enlighten me as to why Apple are still using the Lightening connector here?

Honestly, when Tim said "one more thing", I thought they're going to introduce a whole new line of products, like the Surface Phone we've heard rumors of. A device that only looks like a phone, but is in fact, a whole PC. iPhone X proved to be just another iPhone, nothing more.

There's a surprising amount of people who don't own a computer and use their phone as their only device.

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Post by balls187 »

theshrike79 wrote: post #542
balls187 wrote: post #174

$1000 for higher fidelity snapchat features. I love my iphone camera, and if the upgrade program isn't too terrible, I will get the iPhoneX, but call me underwhelmed. The implementation of faceID seems really poorly thought out. I can unlock my phone, and navigate it before focusing my attention on it. I feel like "attention to unlock" is going to cause an increase in distracted driver related incidents.

iOS 11 has a specific feature to deter people using the phone while driving: https://www.macrumors.com/2017/06/30/ios-11-do-not-disturb-w...

Wonder what the liability of that will be?

In WA, it's now illegal (a primary reason for a stop) to use the cellphone when you are in your car, unless you are in a parkinglot, pulled over.

Say with this new feature, you disable it, and you are found to cause an accident while being distracted, are you in more trouble because you knowningly disabled the phones safety features?

Also, I commute by bus everyday, so I will definitely be disabling the "are you sure you're not driving" warning.

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Post by foodstances »

sixothree wrote: post #435
ctdonath wrote: post #284

Projector-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.

Can be used by police to unlock your phone by pointing it at your face.

How is that any different than them forcing your finger onto a TouchID sensor?
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