Comment Re:Apple has a lot more in common with Blackberry (Score 0) 147
Apple's share of the smartphone market is the best it is have ever been.
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One more headscratcher from Cupertino
Apple was the first company to incorporate BLE into their devices, a competing standard that is now incorporated into Android 4.3. Don't ever plan on seeing NFC in an iDevice. BLE takes less power, connects faster, has a higher bandwidth, and a longer range.
B) there's nothing all that elegant about utilizing the latest technology in your gadget.
Look at how fingerprint readers were incorporated into laptops, and compare that to the iPhone 5S. That is elegance at its very definition.
I think the benefit of this is that it would prevent small children from buying stuff.... if the parent is smart enough to set up the finger print authentication before giving the phone to the kid.
Yes, iTunes purchases can be configured to use the fingerprint.
Capacitive sensors can be hacked if you just have heat and a tiny bit of moisture. AKA, wax fingerprint copy, and you just lick it once.
Yes, but not this one. This doesn't read your fingerprint, but rather tissue underneath the skin. Your wax copy of the outer skin won't work.
Now people can access you iPhone when you are unconscious or dead.
Unconscious? Yes. Dead? No. This reads living tissue under the skin. Can we stop with the "chopping off your hand" junk now?
We'll have to wait to find out exactly what they're referring to, but if implemented well this should be resistant to fingerprint lifting. Only the outer layers of your finger's skin touch objects. You'd have to have somebody else touch a sensor like this one and then try to recreate the capacitive map.
You are correct, this is immune to fingerprint lifting. "Sub-epidermal skin layers" means it reads living tissue under the skin.
Did someone just imply that fingerprint scanners are a new technology? I was under the impression that it was not a secure technology and thus not used widely. Maybe new for Apple but I've got a couple old junk notebooks with fingerprint scanners here somewhere...
Two big differences. 1) This reads living tissue under the skin, which is more secure than a simple fingerprint that can be found anywhere. 2) This is integrated into something you touch already, the home button. It doesn't add any additional steps for the user.
Another example of Apple taking an old idea and applying it in a very elegant fashion.
"But, honestly, if some bad guy has your iPhone and your fingerprint, you've probably got bigger problems to worry about."
Surely if they have your iPhone, they already have lots of copies of you fingerprints smeared all over it?
This technology doesn't use a fingerprint, it actually reads living tissue under the skin. The technology seems very similar because of how you use it (put your thumb here), however it is drastically different.
So no, your fingerprints on the screen won't work. They don't match the living tissue this reads.
So the iPhone 5S is the incremental upgrade any objective observer would have predicted.
Actually if the A6->A7 jump is anywhere near what they put in their graphs, it is much more than I predicted. The A6 is still #1 in terms of graphics performance and web browsing (glbenchmark and sunspider scores).
First, Apple releases a tiny 7" tablet, against Jobs recommendation when he was alive. Now they come up with a cheap iPhone, further eroding Aple's premium image. What's next, sell iPhones at Walmart??
Jobs said they wouldn't make a 7" 16:9 tablet. They made a 7.9" 4:3 tablet that has 34% more screen area. I would expect Slashdot to understand basic geometry and know that these aren't equivalent form factors.
Samsung has a smoother path to the commoditization of the mobile market, because they are already span the entire market.
I have bought 4 of the Samsung S390G for my kids because, at $20 with no contract, they are a great value. Sorry if that sounds like an ad, but at that price, and with a MicroSD slot, it was the obvious choice for my kids' next music/video player, even if they never even activated the phone.
There is no money to be made in $20 no-contract devices. Apple has more profit from smartphones than every other manufacturer (including Samsung) on earth combined. They don't need to race to the bottom.
I probably won't ever purchase another android phone because they are all far too large for my taste.
Your argument falls apart when it becomes clear you have no idea what you are talking about. High end Android phones are available in every size, including the same weird aspect ratio as the iPhone 5.
16:9 is a weird aspect ratio?
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