“Apple’s upcoming iPhone X has one feature that is far ahead of its Android-based competitors,” Don Reisinger reports via The Boston Herald. “That’s the argument by KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who told investors in a research note on Monday that the iPhone X’s facial-scanning feature, Face ID, puts it one-and-a-half to two-and-a-half years ahead of rival technology in Android-based alternatives like Samsung’s Galaxy S8.”
“Kuo believes Apple’s AAPL TrueDepth technology, which uses face scanning to determine whether to open access to a particular phone, is a major technological leap forward. He added that isn’t something Android competitors can easily replicate because of its ability to analyze a person’s facial features in 3D,” Reisinger reports. “Most competing face scanners analyze a person’s face in 2D.”
Apple’s Face ID “can’t be fooled into giving users access to phones based on photos or by scanning human-looking masks. And unlike Android-based facial scanning alternatives, it is more secure than its Touch ID fingerprint sensor in the iPhone 8,” Reisinger reports. “Samsung’s Galaxy S8 face-scanning features have been criticized for being fooled by scanning photos, providing a window that hackers can use to dupe the technology.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple’s even further ahead on processors.
With each passing year, and especially with iPhone X, it becomes increasingly clear – even to the Android settlers – that the competition has no chance of even remotely keeping up against Apple’s unmatched vertically integrated one-two punch of custom software and custom hardware. The Android to iPhone upgrade train just turned onto a long straightaway, engines stoked, primed to barrel away! — MacDailyNews, September 13, 2017
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Apple’s A11 Bionic chip in iPhone 8, 8 Plus, and iPhone X leaves Android phones choking in the dust – September 18, 2017
The inside story of Apple’s amazing A11 Bionic chip – September 18, 2017
Apple’s A11 Bionic obliterates top chips from Qualcomm, Samsung and Huawei – September 18, 2017
Apple accelerates mobile processor dominance with A11 Bionic; benchmarks faster than 13-inch MacBook Pro – September 15, 2017
Apple’s A11 Bionic chip in iPhone X and iPhone 8/Plus on par with 2017 MacBook Pro – September 14, 2017
That may very well be true, but seriously: at this point, who cares? I don’t need or want the whiz-bangery that Apple keeps shoving down our throats. If this is modern competition, it is fundamentally sick.
APFS has wrought all kinds of havoc on my backup system, there are bugs in iOS 11, nothing ‘just works’ anymore. I fully understand the need to stay modern, I understand the need to compete, that should never be as arbitrary as this, and I say that as a professional consumer that is trying to use these tools to support myself, not adhesive loyalist of any kind. So help me (name the deity of your choice, the flying spaghetti monster is fully acceptable), if Apple’s main innovation next time is related to emoji or ripping off SnapChat, I will throw my incredibly ill-designed Apple remote across the room.
When did technology and the world at large become the providence of children on playdates? I know Steve ‘hand selected’ Tim Cook. I know Apple is a very different beast in 2017. But seriously, friends: it’s getting stupid. I do not need more expensive and useless sh*t from this or any other company. :/ Are you listening Apple? Millennials’ credit cards, and by extension, their parents’ credit cards, will not last forever.
Sorry, guys and gals, catharsis. I used to love this company and what they brought to the world.
Sorry for the typos, ‘Not as a’, in place of ‘adhesive’ (thanks, modern Apple OSes)
you’re entitled to one person’s opinion no matter how narrow, biased and uninformed it may be
Who cares James? Well clearly you do, go and have a sit down have a nice cup of tea, life’s too short to get stressed about the small stuff.
Guess what Jamie Boy? My kid still at high school, is getting an iPhone X.
“still at high school”? sounds like you didn’t go at all, or at the very least skipped English..
4th time is the charm, eh?
Graduating at 22 isn’t so bad.
“I don’t need or want the whiz-bangery that Apple keeps shoving down our throats”
Apple is holding a pistol to your head?
” If this is modern competition, it is fundamentally sick.”
Sorry your delicate feelings are hurt by Apple offering new technology.
“I understand the need to compete, that should never be as arbitrary as this”
I’ve no idea what is arbitrary about wanting to be first with new technology.
“When did technology and the world at large become the providence of children on playdates?”
You’ll be accusing Apple of child slavery next.
Jeez dude, have you thought of using Windows XP ?
You portray yourself as a petulant child and your diatribe seems to confirm it. Grow up little guy.
Rule no.1, if your professional life depends on it, don’t be a 1.0 user, period.
I’ve been a loyal Apple customer for roughly 15 years. I agree with everything you said. I’ve always updated to the best possible configurations with every release – MacBook Pro, iMac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV – you name it.
The past few years have been rough and my fanboy enthusiasm is wearing out. The iPhone X bezel is a joke, the iPhone 8 is a faster iPhone 6 with a better camera and worse software, the MacBook Pro’s keyboard is awful to type on and the touchbar is cute but just meh. None of their innovations make up for the compromised reliability or dongle nightmare.
The only thing that brought me joy from Apple this year was the new Series 3 Apple Watch.
Apple isn’t being valued for any advantage over the Android platform so this ‘advantage’ of being two years ahead of Android likely doesn’t exist. Even if Apple does have some sort of advantage and can’t translate it into increasing iPhone sales then that supposed ‘advantage’ really doesn’t matter. I’m only saying that any company that really has an advantage over rivals is usually valued by Wall Street as having an advantage. Apple’s P/E of 17.x remains the same as a steel mill on the verge of collapse. That’s definitely not how a true tech company with an advantage is valued. Apple is certainly not being valued as a disrupter of Android or anything else.
That’s how it appears to me and I’m only looking at it this way through my personal viewpoint as an Apple shareholder.
Yes I don’t see the advantage either, perhaps if average consumers viewed it as a must-have feature, but they don’t, at least not yet. If they did, Apple wouldn’t be able to keep up with the demand, they can’t even keep up now.
I was in the Spokane Apple Store today exchanging a defective AppleTRV 4K. While waiting I spoke with a gentleman looking at the iPhone 8 Plus. He explained that he wanted the iPhone X, but couldn’t wait because he dropped his 6 Plus and shattered the screen (it was ugly). He’s going to get the 8 Plus with Apple’s upgrade program so that he can get the 2019 iPhone X when it comes out.
Why did he want the iPhone X?
Smaller chassis than the Plus
Face ID
OLED display
He’s a sample of one, but surveys of hundreds of likely iPhone buyers are reflecting the same thing.
You may not see the advantage, but you and those like you are out numbered by millions.
Forgive me, but I actually use a lot of statistics for my job. Nice story but why even attempt to draw conclusions out of a survey of 1 .IN .AN .APPLE .STORE.. .
The reason that Apple FINALLY offers a family of phones with different sizes and capabilities and price points is because MOST PEOPLE DON’T EVEN WANT THE LATEST AND BEST. Actual sales and usage data prove this year after year. If every Apple customer bought the newest model every year that would be like Porsche owners trading up every model change. Sure most can afford to but who needs to do so? Only the most extreme fanboys.
I doubt Apple cares at all whether a person buys an 8 or an X or even an older model; the real profits come from walled garden app sales anyway.
I don’t doubt that tens of millions of people will buy the X, but I’ve gotten used to the + chassis as have tens of millions of others. I don’t think the X will meet the high expectations of the early adopters, iOS 11 won’t run any differently on the X and once they remove the notch in a year they’ll quickly want to upgrade.
“Apple isn’t being valued for any advantage over the Android platform so this ‘advantage’ of being two years ahead of Android likely doesn’t exist. Even if Apple does have some sort of advantage and can’t translate it into increasing iPhone sales then that supposed ‘advantage’ really doesn’t matter. ”
You are correct, AAPL is not being valued on its technological lead, but that’s because of the baseless rumors strongly indicating that Apple isn’t going to sell many of the iPhone Xs in the December quarter.
The value of AAPL is currently being controlled by uninformed retail “investors”, afraid of their own shadow, whose trading horizon is 90 days vs 2 – 3 years.
Now that is on target. Short term speculation hollowed out the diversified economies of the UK and USA. If you Yanks want to make your country great again, you won’t git er dun with Goldman Sachs wonks in your executive administration. And no matter what tax plan you attempt to sell the gullible, Apple has no interest bringing back jobs or cash. Apple is focused on the BRIC emerging economies. The USA, like the UK and most of Europe, is too old and expensive for Timmy. So he plays the Wall Street games to keep up appearances.
First they say you can’t compete with “Open”, “Android Market Share”, “BYGOFree”, or whatever other stupid shit that comes to their mind.
Then they say Apple “Can’t Design”, “Walled Garden”, “Lost their way”, or whatever other stupid shit that comes to their mind.
Then they say, what Jamie Boy just said above about it being overkill etc, or whatever other stupid shit that comes to their mind.
Then we win.
This is stupid… windows 10 hello can not be fooled by identical twins, and works even if you are wearing glasses. This is typical apple snowflake, apple copies just about everything…..So let’s see, you get a phone call in the middle of the night and then get blasted in the face by a bright light..just to answer your phone…..lol
You have no idea and even less knowledge about how it works. Go back to Windows 10 and Windows phone. It’s obvious it’s all you can handle.
People are pointing at you and can’t stop laughing. And you have no idea why. It’s a sad state to be in.