Posted on 09/12/2017 11:39:40 PM PDT by Reno89519
The new Apple iPhone X replaces the fingerprint scanner with facial recognition to unlock the phone. If you recall, some courts ruled that forcing you to give up your fingerprint to access your iPhone content was okay and did not require a search warrant. How will they rule about facial recognition and will they even have to?
Just saying.
Aren’t iPhones all made in China?
I think so.
Wish they weren’t. But does this affect facial recognition, privacy, and our constitutional rights how?
Just saying.
We will see. Sure, Apple is completely sold out on Chinese manufacturing. They are certainly not alone, however.
Everyone is making everything there.
But Apple is this week going big on promoting the “new iPhone”...
It is $1000, for crying out loud.
Trump, this is a prime example of why you won, last year.
Just saying.
Seems to this observer, nothing has really happened, regarding Chinese production, of everything.
I’ve heard some iphone in China are being tested that will require the owner to either smile or laugh in order to unlock it.
I definitely don’t want one of those phones. Sometimes, I’m not in the mood to be grinning ear to ear about nothing in particular. If I faked my laughter, the phone would ‘know’ I was being phony. How ironic would that be?
Too phony for a phone.
Don’t you think some faces might break the phone?
A thousand dollars? Not unrealistic. Consider that the iPhone 7+ is already $769. Would I cough up a thousand? Probably. And spread out of 24 months, that’s less than $10 a month increase. For me, a minor business expense.
Maybe it could be configured to erase itself if you stick your tongue out at it.
If it did, and you did, would that be obstruction of justice?
Felt pressure to come up with a squirrel to distract?
Facial recognition is an option on the new iPhone. You can still opt for the traditional numeric code.
I suppose it depends.
I am not an Apple person. I have Windows on my computer (used to use Linux, but changed with Windows 10.)
And I just have a relatively inexpensive phone. Generic, the most important things I have it for, is for phone calls, and mapping (that is important, but available on any phone). It has Skype, also the web, but I keep that quite bundled up.
I usually use a VERY cheap phone, that is just a phone.
That is the phone I use most of the time.
(people often get phones stolen right out of their hands here - I lost one that way, and had another one - the replacement - attempted to be stolen a month later on exactly the same street, which I managed to hold onto)
Now I use a very cheap phone.
For me Apple is COMPLETELY overpriced.
But there are sure a lot of people, who agree with you.
It might not even recognize that as a face.
You could just get the iPhone 8Plus instead and have the old finger scanner built in, or just set a password on the iPhone X instead of face recognition if it’s that a big a deal. It’ll probably have an option for both face and password required to unlock it too.
Bah. No headphone jack, no sale. Guess I’ll have to get a bargain basement 6 before they discontinue them so that I can have something to use for the next few years.
That is an understatement.
They are the problem. They are all sold out to China.
For the last generation, everyone has been selling all our former manufacturing base, to the most populated country in the entire world.
A country which is still communist!
(I know, I am in a communist country right now, but America is not threatened by Vietnam, in the least. It is a small, densely populated country which we unfortunately were involved in a war with, a long time ago now)
Vietnam is not a threat to America. Cripes, a whole lot of people here like America, some quite a bit.
Yet we continue to buy, and buy, and buy ever more stuff from China. An aggressively arming, very large communist country, which does not buy stuff back, from us.
That needs to stop.
America needs to make our own stuff, once again. Or China needs to buy stuff from us.
Which they have shown absolutely ZERO tendency to do, yet.
America first.
A big plus on these newer phones is the cameras. I used to do some professional photography--last film camera was Nikon F5, then last Nikon as a D100 I think--anyway, the iPhone 7+ takes better pictures than either of these ever did. The only thing I've lost is the ability (or need) to drag around dozens of pounds of expensive lenses. Betting the 8 and X have upped that photo quality and 4K video to next level. Worth it right there to move up to newest phones.
Yeah, sorry I think I sort of got carried away.
Apple makes good stuff. No question. A lot of people support them.
But I sure wish, they would bring production back to America. The thing is, that criticism also pertains to every other company. It is not fair to just criticize Apple for it. Everyone makes computers, and phones in China.
That “Made in China” thing however is important, and becoming ever more important, in my view.
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