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251 points mpweiher | 1 comments | 08 Dec 25 11:47 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mpweiher ◴[08 Dec 25 12:54 UTC] No.46191671[source]▶

   Hardware Design:    check
   Hardware:           check
   Software Design:    check
   Software:           please!
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tobr ◴[08 Dec 25 13:03 UTC] No.46191727[source]▶
For a good while, Mac hardware was held back because of hardware design. That changed soon after Ive left. Maybe the same can happen with software now.
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euroderf ◴[08 Dec 25 13:13 UTC] No.46191827[source]▶
The healing begins with a joint HW/SW effort: bring iPhone touch ID back, and strip Liquid Glass down to the bare wood and fix it.
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tobr ◴[08 Dec 25 13:20 UTC] No.46191897[source]▶
Liquid Glass I agree with. Not sure if the Touch ID comment is intended as a joke.
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carlosjobim ◴[08 Dec 25 14:05 UTC] No.46192333[source]▶
Cell phones from other brands have Touch ID and it works great. Apple has Touch ID on their iPads and it also works great. As it does on the MacBooks. As it does on the iPhone SE. It should be brought back.
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ChrisMarshallNY ◴[08 Dec 25 14:22 UTC] No.46192532[source]▶
I am not a fan, simply because of the screen real estate that needs to be sacrificed.

Other phones tend to have it on the back, and I have heard there's good progress in having embedded thumbprint readers in the screen.

I have, however, really come to like Face ID.

[UPDATED TO ADD] I think that it's interesting that folks ding comments they disagree with. I upvoted all the responses to my comment, even though they may disagree with me, because they were made in good faith, and contribute to the discussion.

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tannhaeuser ◴[08 Dec 25 14:54 UTC] No.46192885[source]▶
Face ID is severely lacking compared to MS Hello, simple as. It's at best 50:50 hit/miss compared to Hello which logs me in always. Granted, that figure doesn't include false positives, but the difference is substantial and makes Apple's implementation look really lame, to the point I'd like to see it removed.
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1. ChrisMarshallNY ◴[08 Dec 25 15:00 UTC] No.46192959[source]▶
I haven't had that happen, so I think it works fairly well. Even with a mask.

In fact, it works so well, for me, that I was worried that it was too generous, but it is actually very secure.