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Re: iPhone X

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Post by liberte82 »

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…

Oh man that notch bothers me. I suppose maybe I'll get used to it, but is making such a drastic design decision really worth the extra few millimetres of pixels on each side of it? It just bothers me aesthetically looking at images of it.

Re: iPhone X

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Post by zaroth »

They make is so easy to login to the phone -- I'm still waiting for the ability to add multiple users. When I hand my phone to my daughter she should see her apps, my son, his. And when I hand my phone to my wife, she should unlock it and see.... her phone. If 256GB local storage and 11ac WiFi isn't enough storage and bandwidth to make this easy, I would be OK if it only kept the last GB of the camera roll.

Of course this sync should happen directly between our devices when they are on the same network. No need to go through the cloud.

By default if her phone rings it should only alert on her primary device. Unless she authenticates to my device at which point everything is there waiting. If her phone was ringing and she picks up my device and authenticates it should answer the call.

Ideally this is all smooth enough that we have matching devices and don't care which one either of us walks out of the house with.

The end game is that when networks are fast enough, the cloud mature enough, and homomorphic encryption performant, we get to the point where the phone basically lives in the cloud and anyone can pick up any iDevice, authenticate, and be looking at effectively their own device.

Re: iPhone X

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Post by 51Cards »

dfischer wrote: post #751
pilom wrote: post #595

I'm bothered by the move to TouchID and now FaceID from a "the government can make you unlock your phone" standpoint. Legally, the precedent is that the government can force you to use "something you are" like your face or fingerprint to unlock your phone. Currently there is at least some ambiguity to the precedents that say they can't require you to unlock your phone with "something you know" like a pin or password…

I thought they added a feature just for this. You can press the power button 5 times to force it to require a passcode.

Doesn't work if they are holding your device and they point it at your face to unlock it.

Re: iPhone X

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Post by liberte82 »

I can already tell I'm soon going to be very tired of the word notch. It's starting to feel like the tartlets from Seinfeld.

Re: iPhone X

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Post by mbroncano »

RayVR wrote: post #238

I can't wait for someone to pick up my phone, point it at my face and have it unlock. Hope it has a "User sleeping, can't unlock" feature.

During the keynote they mentioned this particular case, and they claimed it does have such a feature.

Re: iPhone X

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Post by Taniwha »

I'm going to train future face recognition phone to only work if I close one eye and stick my tongue out ... the border guards will never guess

Re: iPhone X

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Post by [deleted] »

unethical_ban wrote: post #680
leeoniya wrote: post #592

> Your face is now your password no, it isnt. and neither are your fingerprints. none of this publicly available data is a password. a password is something i can change if it gets compromised. a password is secure from others. biometric data is a username/id . why do companies insist on getting this shit backwards?

Biometric data is authentication. One looks at their mother and says "hi mom" not "what's the passcode?". Your issue, I think, is that you don't trust the tools on the phone to read faces or fingerprints well enough to detect fraudulent login attempts. Factors of authentication: * What you know - things like passwords online that other people shouldn't know * What you have - Two-factor tokens, certs (kind of "know" b…

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Re: iPhone X

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Post by wentoodeep »

leeoniya wrote: post #592

> Your face is now your password no, it isnt. and neither are your fingerprints. none of this publicly available data is a password. a password is something i can change if it gets compromised. a password is secure from others. biometric data is a username/id . why do companies insist on getting this shit backwards?

I agree, what about identical twins or a doppleganger?
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