hmmm you make a fair point

No I’m sorry, I’m all out. I guess people are really interested in Apple or something.

That it’s an absurd concern. Consumer electronics balance security and ease-of-use. 3D facial recognition could appropriately strike that balance just as Touch ID did.

You are trying to suggest I’m biased, but aren’t you? Just because you think that Apple “fanboys” will support Apple no matter what, you have totally disregarded everything I’ve said. My opinions aren’t coming from some blind allegiance to Apple, but from a deep understanding of what sets their systems apart from…

• It equates Apple’s unreleased technology to Samsung’s, which is a “gimmick” that “creates a false sense of security that many consumers won’t know is about as secure as ‘swipe to unlock.’” which is certainly true of Samsung, but not expected to be true of Apple’s technology - even the source article notes that.

I am sure of two things:

It’s not a “sales pitch.” If that’s all you got from it, then you probably don’t understand the differences between the iPhone’s biometric system and its competitors’. I encourage you to read up on it.

Or chop your finger off. Or duct tape you to a chair in a basement somewhere and yank your fingernails off until you give them your passcode.

An opinion based on how others have implemented it - not how Apple is rumored to be implementing it.

I’d be critical of Apple if it were warranted, but it isn’t. This sensationalist clickbait post needlessly scares readers and derides Apple for implementing something they haven’t even officially announced yet in a way that their competitors have done it and that they most certainly won’t.

lol yes you have exposed a massive flaw in Apple’s plans. You should e-mail Tim Cook.

They developed a reliable fingerprint sensor paired with an isolated system to interface with it offering one of the most widely used and secure consumer biometric security system ever created. Apple doesn’t get much credit for this, but it is absolutely true.

It’s not “stupid”. How Apple’s competitors have implemented this “feature” is certainly stupid and gimmicky, but that’s now how Apple will do it.

People who complain about this stuff annoy me 10000x more than the people who actually do it.

Thought the same thing. I see this by default without enabling anything on the stable channel. I didn’t know it existed until the other day when I wanted it and hoped it was an option and was happy to discover that it was.

While this is annoying and something I have noticed myself (more-so because I can’t connect my new iPhone to my new MBP solely with the cables provided in each box), I would hardly call it “user-hostile”. At least you can use the EarPods with the MBP with the cables/adapters that come with each (lightning > 3.5MM). …

Haha thanks. My actual name is Jim. My actual face is not Dwight.

lol nice try - I am not the one who bailed out of the dialogue because the mental gymnastics to support my own hypocritical arguments were too exhausting.

fwiw I rented an apartment a few months ago that included a month free. The price advertised to me was the net effective price, but it was clearly explained on the website it was posted on. I expected them to just charge me the net effective price every month for the first year, but instead, they gave me the first…

It’s gross because people put their bare feet on them! They also sometimes take shits on them.