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Re:iPhone X by k-mcgrady on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @03:08PM (#15230718)
>> Face ID is pretty much a hack

>> I didn't watch the keynote

This is nothing like the version that's been available on Android for years. Read up on it or watch the keynote before jumping to wild conclusions.

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Re:iPhone X by oneeyedpigeon on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @03:12PM (#15230794)
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that it was "bad" when I said "hack". I meant that it was introduced in order to solve a problem introduced by another design change (i.e. the removal of touch ID).
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Re:iPhone X by infogulch on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @03:21PM (#15230961)
Well they introduced completely new dedicated hardware components that I've never seen in a smartphone to enable this feature. For me "hack" doesn't do the feature justice.
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Re:iPhone X by djrogers on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @05:32PM (#15233017)
If using a 30k dot projector, 2 cameras (one IR), and a neural network processor is your idea of a 'hack', I'd love to see what you think an elegantly designed solution is!
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