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251 points mpweiher | 1 comments | 08 Dec 25 11:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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blackguardx ◴[08 Dec 25 17:50 UTC] No.46195362[source]▶
TouchID doesn't really for me on my Macbook or iPad. It has about a 25% success rate. I think one issue is that I work with my hands a lot.
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1. phantasmish ◴[08 Dec 25 23:40 UTC] No.46199244{3}[source]▶
It works OK for me on Mac, but all touchID drops to about 50/50 for me in Winter, under the (otherwise) best circumstances. Dry air, I guess.

On iPhone, specifically, it was awful for me. I was too likely to have wet hands (raining, just got out of shower, whatever—even dried, the higher moisture in my skin meant it didn't work) or gloves on or some other problem that made it fail. Trying to hold it the right way, one-handed, to get a finger in the right position (waaaaay down near the bottom) was also a high-risk maneuver for a drop, and was not a way I'd otherwise have tried to hold the device.