Daring Fireball. Tuesday, 3. October 2. 01. 7Because I’ve only had about 2. Phone X, I’m in no position to write a review yet. But my quick take: Face ID works great. In practice it’s like not even having a passcode on the phone. You just swipe and you’re in.
It’s also very quick to set up — way quicker than setting up even a single fingerprint in Touch ID. I don’t really notice the notch while using it. I do notice the lack of a home button.
I think I’ll get used to the new no- home- button UI soon, but 1. The device feels great. I was far from alone in not getting an extended period of time to test the phone before the review embargo lifted. Here’s what others are saying in their reviews.
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Matthew Panzarino used i. Phone X for a week, and stress- tested it with a family trip to Disneyland. He did the same thing with the i.
Phone 6 and 6 Plus three years ago — it’s a great conceit for a review.) He also got on- the- record interviews with Phil Schiller, Dan Riccio, Craig Federighi, and Alan Dye. Riccio flatly denied reports that Apple was scrambling to get Touch ID working with i. Phone X: “I heard some rumor [that] we couldn’t get Touch ID to work. Riccio says. answering a question about whether there were late design. When we hit early line of sight on getting Face ID to. This is assuming it was a better solution. And that’s what we did.
So we spent no time looking at. Face ID. done in a high- quality way.”Panzarino, on the i. Phone X’s OLED display: I hate to say it, but it makes the i. Phone 8 Plus LCD look kind. I love it, even though it is flawed in one. The one area where this display falls prey to standard OLED gripes. Apple tells me that it has done work to.
OLED. screens traditionally. I can tell you that, compared to other OLED. But it is still there. For people who share their phone’s. On. some phones, OLEDs go super blue.
On the i. Phone X it’s more of a. It’s not terrible, but it definitely exists. I see the same thing with mine. Nicole Nguyen also used i. Phone X for a week and wrote a great review for Buzz.
Feed: Whatever. I don’t feel strongly about the notch either way, but. It’s. when the keyboard, in any app, is on screen (which, for me, is. There’s all this dead space on the bottom. Apple could have put common punctuation, frequently used. Other. full- screen apps on other phones put navigation or other design.
It. looks fine. It’s puzzling why Apple didn’t put something more. It does look like a waste of space, but I wonder if testing showed that there needs to be some space under the keyboard to separate it from the virtual home button? If there weren’t a gap under the keyboard, you might hit the home button while trying to hit the space bar, and vice versa.
Update: I’ve heard from a little birdie that my speculation is correct; also: it’s about typing comfort. For a normal human who isn’t aware of the 3. D map of their head. Using Face ID is what life. That’s my take too.
It’s like not having a passcode set. Lance Ulanoff, in his review for Mashable: During my first 2.
Phone X, I helplessly. It’s a kind of Phantom. Home Button Syndrome that I expect all i.
Phone X owners will. It fades, though, and rather quickly, thanks to a smartly designed. Apple calls Face ID. One important limitation of Face ID: It only lets you register one. That may strike many as unnecessarily limiting since Touch. ID lets users register up to 1.
Apple says it. found the number of people who register more than one person’s. There’s also the simple and obvious. I’m surprised it’s only a minuscule number. I’ve got a fingerprint registered on my son’s i. Phone — I’m sure other parents do the same thing.
And last week my wife let me put a fingerprint on her i. Phone so I could use Apple Pay while pre- ordering her i. Phone X while she slept. ★Wednesday, 2.
October 2. 01. 7Seemingly- sensational Apple story from Bloomberg today, reported by Alex Webb and Sam Kim, “Inside Apple’s Struggle to Get the i. Phone X to Market on Time”: As of early fall, it was clearer than ever that production. Apple Inc. wouldn’t have enough i.
Phone Xs in time. The challenge was how to make the sophisticated. As Wall Street analysts and fan blogs watched for signs that the. Apple came up with a solution: It quietly.
That sounds terrible. But what exactly does it mean? Does it mean Face ID will create too many false positives? Does it mean it will be too slow? Does it mean there will be too many false negatives?
Surprise surprise, Bloomberg doesn’t say. Watch Late Fee Streaming. Apple is famously demanding, leaning on suppliers and contract.
While a less accurate Face ID will still be far. Touch ID, the company’s decision to. Downgraded technology” sounds terrible.
But which components, exactly, were “downgraded”? Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller said “Bloomberg’s claim that it.
Face ID is completely false and we. Face ID to be the new gold standard for facial. The quality and accuracy of Face ID haven’t.
Phone with Face ID.”It is extraordinary for Apple to issue a blanket “this is completely false” statement on any news story. Apple, as policy, no- comments every news story, even when they know it’s bullshit.
So either this story is particularly strong bullshit, or Apple is lying, on the record, under one of their own real names (as opposed to the anonymous “an Apple spokesperson” attribution). And what exactly is the point of Bloomberg’s story if, as reported, “Face ID will still be far better than the existing Touch ID”? To make matters worse, Apple lost one of its laser suppliers early. Finisar Corp. failed to meet Apple’s specifications in time.
Sunnyvale. California- based company is racing to meet the standards by the. October. That left Apple reliant on fewer laser suppliers. Lumentum Holdings Inc. II- VI Inc. Apple didn’t “lose” a supplier — Apple cut the supplier because they weren’t producing adequate yields. Watch Defending Your Life Online (2017).
To boost the number of usable dot projectors and accelerate. Apple relaxed some of the specifications for Face ID. As. a result, it took less time to test completed modules, one of the. It’s not clear how much the new specs will reduce the technology’s. Now we get to the real heart of the story. Did Apple adjust the specifications for the components, or just the testing parameters?
And if “it’s not clear how much the new specs will reduce the technology’s efficacy”, what is the point of this story? When did Apple “relax” these specifications? Before or after the September event? To be clear, I have no idea whether Face ID works as advertised or not. I haven’t used it even once yet. Maybe it stinks, maybe it’s great, maybe it’s somewhere in between.
But Bloomberg clearly doesn’t know either, yet they published this story which has a headline and summary — “The company let suppliers reduce accuracy of the phone’s Face ID system to speed up production” — which suggests that Face ID is going to stink because Apple’s suppliers couldn’t get enough good components out the door. If this weren’t merely clickbait, they’d be able to say how well it actually works.
Frankly, I don’t trust anything Bloomberg reports about i. Phones any more. On July 3, they published this piece by Mark Gurman, “Apple Tests 3- D Face Scanning to Unlock Next i. Phone”: Apple Inc. Phone using your face instead of a fingerprint.
For its redesigned i. Phone, set to go on sale later this year.
Apple is testing an improved security system that allows users to. This is. powered by a new 3- D sensor, added the people, who asked not to be. The. company is also testing eye scanning to augment the system, one of. The sensor’s speed and accuracy are focal points of the feature. It can scan a user’s face and unlock the i.
Phone within a few. It is designed to work even.
The feature is still being tested and may not appear. However, the intent is for it to replace the. Touch ID fingerprint scanner, according to the person.
An Apple. spokesman declined to comment. Apple did in fact replace Touch ID with Face ID in the i. Phone X, but the timing on Gurman’s story is wrong. They weren’t “testing” the viability of any of this in July.
Uber Investors Slam Travis Kalanick in Open Letter to Employees [Updated]Benchmark Capital, one of Uber’s largest investors, is trying to explain its legal feud with former CEO Travis Kalanick to the ride- sharing company’s employees. Benchmark sued Kalanick for fraud last week, adding another controversy to the company’s already disastrous summer. In an open letter to Uber employees, Benchmark slammed Kalanick’s leadership of the company and said that he was purposely hindering the board’s search for a replacement CEO. The firm also criticized Uber’s slow response to the a report compiled by Eric Holder and Tammy Albarrán on harassment within Uber, and the stagnant search for a chief financial officer that has dragged on for more than two years.“It has appeared at times as if the search was being manipulated to deter candidates and create a power vacuum in which Travis could return,” the unsigned letter reads. Other Uber shareholders led by Shervin Pishevar of Sherpa Capital have vehemently opposed Benchmark’s lawsuit.
Pishevar and his supporters have argued that Benchmark’s actions are destroying the value of their investments in Uber. Benchmark’s lawsuit aims to force Kalanick off the board of the company he founded.“It’s easy to reduce this situation to a battle of personalities. But this isn’t about Benchmark versus Travis. It’s about ensuring that Uber can reach its full potential as a company. And that will only happen if we get rid of the roadblocks and distractions that have plagued Uber, and its board, for far too long,” Benchmark wrote in its letter.
Failing to act would have meant endorsing behavior that was utterly unacceptable in any company, let alone a company of Uber’s size and importance.”Benchmark’s letter also makes reference to the allegations contained in the Holder report, which have yet to become public. Benchmark says that Uber has yet to start working on some of the recommendations laid out in the report, including coming up with new cultural values for the company. To describe it as hard- hitting would be an understatement,” Benchmark wrote. Gizmodo reached out to Uber and Pishevar for comment and will update with their responses. Update 8/1. 4 at 3: 4. Kalanick has responded to Benchmark through a spokesperson.
Here’s his statement given to the New York Times: Like many shareholders, I am disappointed and baffled by Benchmark’s hostile actions, which clearly are not in the best interests of Uber and its employees on whose behalf they claim to be acting. Since 2. 00. 9, building Uber into a great company has been my passion and obsession. I continue to work tirelessly with the board to identify and hire the best CEO to guide Uber into its next phase of growth and ensure its continued success. Update 8/1. 4 at 5: 3. An Uber spokesperson told Gizmodo that the company is on track to fulfill the recommendations of the Holder/Albarrán report on time, and isn’t lagging behind as the Benchmark letter suggested. Uber has rolled out a feedback tool for employees to submit suggestions for new cultural values and, once it gets a new CEO, that person will be in position to implement them. Changes to Uber’s performance review process are also underway.[Benchmark].