There will not be some half-baked software-based fingerprint scanning. This is an iPhone, not an imitation android device.
The fingerprint sensor is part of the home button, and extremely sophisticated and hardware-based integration.
Well, a user may have to re-authenticate for a specific financial application after login in with the home button. Pressing the home button again would exit the application. This is where in-display fingerprinting can be used to authorize an separate transaction. Just because you are logged on to a device does not mean you can do everything. (Think parental control ) You may be allowed to turn on and use a device but not allowed to authorize payments using the device.
No company would give up sales to a competitor for an entire quarter because the network wasn't quite everywhere yet. They would announce that they had a TDD-LTE network, because they do, but once you were in the store with the shiny new iPhone 5S in your had they would tell you the network wasn't in your area yet... but would be before the end of the year. You'd buy the phone and go home happy knowing in a couple months the network would be ready.
How many people purchased 3G or LTE phones in the States and waited for Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile to upgrade the towers in their town? Too many to count.
There's a world of difference.
In the case of US phones, if you buy an LTE phone and you happen to be in an area without LTE service, it still works - on 3G or even 2G networks which cover the entire country. In the case of China Mobile, if you have a phone that only works with TDD-LTE and you live in (or travel to) an area without TDD-LTE, you may not have service at all.
If they are able to fall back to the slower network, then your argument might make sense, but there's no evidence that they'd be able to do that - since the earlier network isn't supported, either.
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There will not be some half-baked software-based fingerprint scanning. This is an iPhone, not an imitation android device.
The fingerprint sensor is part of the home button, and extremely sophisticated and hardware-based integration.
Well, a user may have to re-authenticate for a specific financial application after login in with the home button. Pressing the home button again would exit the application. This is where in-display fingerprinting can be used to authorize an separate transaction. Just because you are logged on to a device does not mean you can do everything. (Think parental control ) You may be allowed to turn on and use a device but not allowed to authorize payments using the device.
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/07/18/apple-details-in-display-fingerprint-sensor-tech-in-patent-filing-from-authentec-cofounder
Time will tell.
There's a world of difference.
In the case of US phones, if you buy an LTE phone and you happen to be in an area without LTE service, it still works - on 3G or even 2G networks which cover the entire country. In the case of China Mobile, if you have a phone that only works with TDD-LTE and you live in (or travel to) an area without TDD-LTE, you may not have service at all.
If they are able to fall back to the slower network, then your argument might make sense, but there's no evidence that they'd be able to do that - since the earlier network isn't supported, either.
I have an inkling this will be Apple's most popular iPhone launch to date.