they shouldn't have bet it all on face id in the first place. Stupid move They should have kept touch id and introduced face id improving it over time or something.
On 10/25/17, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote: > This sounds like a very bad idea. Lauren your quality expectations, when > your brand has always been dependent on a quality experience seems like the > best way to turn off customers and send them looking elsewhere. Silly silly > short term decision. > Mary > > Apple lowers Face ID specifications to ramp up iPhone X production, report > says > TechCrunch / Romain Dillet > > > According to a new report from Bloomberg, Apple is changing its strategy > when it comes to manufacturing the Face ID sensor in the upcoming iPhone X. > Requirements have been lowered so that suppliers can produce those sensors > much more quickly. > > KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo shared a concerning report a few days > ago. According to him, Apple won’t be able to produce enough iPhone X units > for first weekend sales alone. Apple should have around 2 to 3 million units > on launch day. The company could suffer from chronicle shortages over > multiple months. > > The iPhone X packs many cutting-edge components and producing tens of > millions of those components have been hard. One of them is the dot > projector in the Face ID sensor. This component projects a network of > infrared dots to create a 3D map of your face based on the reflection of > those dots. It’s essentially like a Kinect in a phone. > > Apple usually sets some strict rules when it comes to quality insurance. > Components that don’t meet the specifications can’t be used in a device. And > suppliers have to rigorously test all parts. > > And yet, the company might have been too aggressive when it comes to the > iPhone X release plan. Factories could have used more time to plan and > improve their production facilities in order to ramp up production. > > Apple now requires less testing of the completed modules. It means that some > modules will be as good, but some modules might not be as accurate. But it > also means that production should be faster. > > There’s a one in 50,000 chance that someone else can unlock an iPhone with a > Touch ID sensor. By switching to face recognition, Apple originally claimed > it would be more secure — the chances of someone else unlocking your phone > should have been one in a million with Face ID. It’s unclear if today’s > change is going to affect this number. > > > > Original Article: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/iAt8lUAedQQ/ > > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Lenron Brown Cell: 985-271-2832 Skype: ron.brown762 -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
