Apple Adds Biometrics, Snubs NFC Again
Author: Brian Rhodes, Published on Sep 11, 2013
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Comments (4)
Ray Bernard
Just like the Dick Tracy two-way wrist radio ('50s) and the Star Trek flip-open communicator ('60s), popular media concepts tend to influence designers. Fingerprints "technology" has long making appearances in spy, CSI and futuristuc movies and TV shows. I think it's just a matter of "when" for widespread adoption. Yes, there will be security and privacy concerns for many of the implementations, but the convenience of that authentication factor, if "good enough" for popular consumer use, it could lead to increased commercial security application for fingerprint technology. (60 years later, you can buy a Dick Tracy two-way radio on Amazon. We've almost all owned a flip phone at one time or another.)
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Undisclosed Manufacturer #1
Great Apple marketing as usual, but is this really such a great and useful feature on a phone? Office laptops often have a finger print reader, but I wonder how many people actually use it. I wish Apple made the iPhone water proof, that would have been a much more useful feature (for me anyways) than this finger print reader. I also wished Apple made the iPhone cheaper, and they did with the iPhone 5C :-)
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sundar Subramanian
Ideally Capacitive sensors are more accurate compared to Optical sensors. Optical sensors can cause more FRR and FAR where are comparatively it is less with Capacitive sensors... and Capacitive sensors are costlier too!
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