TouchID I use every time I touch my iPhone as It's used to you know, UNLOCK MY IPHONE!!! I so miss it every time I go use my iPad 3 and have to enter my password. If you're dumb enough not to passlock your phone, well you're asking for it.
I don't think the touch ID sensor is near as universally used as you might assume -- I had a Typo for my iPhone 5 before I got my iPhone 6 plus (which there is no typo keyboard for or I would have it too)...and I have to say I never once used the touch ID sensor, nor do I know anybody in my company that does...its a gimmick that I don't think is something everyone uses....and clearly for most people who get these keyboards the physical keypad is far more important that a touch sensor...
Anyone who uses the word "gimmick" immediately loses all credibility to me.
This guy also mentions he has NEVER used TouchID. So how the hell could he criticize it?
I think the users on AppleInsider are not typical. Most people do not relentlessly defend an Apple technology. They may or may not like it. Touch ID is definitely one of those where it's VERY common for people not to like it. They are not very good for climates that get winter. If it's cold, it doesn't work. If your skin is too dry, it doesn't work. If you have lotion on your hands, it doesn't work. or me at least, the success rate is less than 50%. At least I gave it a few months before I gave up on it. My wife turned hers off by the end of the first day.
No. YOU are not typical. People pay $500 more for an iPhone because they love the product, for the features. Call them fanboys all day but people pay because they want TouchID among other features. Most people with iPhone 6 use TouchID.
Your post sounds so damn trollish. Especially with so many people reporting %99-100 success rate with TouchID. Reminds me of fandroid posters claiming iPhone features suck even though they've never owned one.
If you and your wife can't use simple technology, get a flip phone.
I don't think the touch ID sensor is near as universally used as you might assume -- I had a Typo for my iPhone 5 before I got my iPhone 6 plus (which there is no typo keyboard for or I would have it too)...and I have to say I never once used the touch ID sensor, nor do I know anybody in my company that does...its a gimmick that I don't think is something everyone uses....and clearly for most people who get these keyboards the physical keypad is far more important that a touch sensor...
Seems to me lately, that more and more of the lesser gene pools are invading Ai's comments sections... Where I work, anyone that has an iPhone 5S (like myself) or the 6/6+, SWEAR by Touch ID. That "gimmick" is what powers the most secure contactless payment platform on the planet, ?Pay. That "gimmick" is what allows people to use their phone with the best encryption, whilst not being forced to enter an unlock PIN each and every time they want to use their device. That "gimmick" has brought a level of security and convenience to the smartphone never before seen. And I bet your company is fully of drooling Microsoft crybabies that suck at the proverbial teet dangling from Satya Nadella...
I think the users on AppleInsider are not typical. Most people do not relentlessly defend an Apple technology. They may or may not like it. Touch ID is definitely one of those where it's VERY common for people not to like it. They are not very good for climates that get winter. If it's cold, it doesn't work. If your skin is too dry, it doesn't work. If you have lotion on your hands, it doesn't work. or me at least, the success rate is less than 50%. At least I gave it a few months before I gave up on it. My wife turned hers off by the end of the first day.
I'm up in Canada, and barring the owner having gloves on, temperature doesn't affect Touch ID in the slightest. I've used my 5S in the rocky mountains, on top of those mountains, and, guess what? It works 100%.
My touchID sometimes doesn't work when I use Siri and she tells me I need to unlock the phone.
It pops the keypad up but holding my thumb on the touch ID sensor occasionally I don't even get a wiggle of the numbers. I have to put in the passcode.
I haven't found rhyme or reason when this happens.
Blackberry would be better advised to concentrate on creating products people want to buy rather than unleashing their lawyers on those who do.
I also find the court's decision in favor of Blackberry bizarre. Compare the two keyboards above and you'll see that virtually all the similarity is the QWERTY key layout, which no one owns.
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The makers of Typo might want to concentrate their attention in another area. Look at virtually every small Bluetooth keyboard on the market and you'll find an ill-designed product. Most are junk. Examples:
1. Why are their uppercase shift keys? That makes sense on full-sized keyboards where we are using all ten fingers. It make no sense with a tiny keyboard where we are using two thumbs. Make the UC shift work with a user pushing in with his hand on one side at the bottom.
2. Make pushing in on the other side at the bottom shift into numeric/punctuation mode.
3. For both, push and hold stays in those modes for as long as there's pushing. Pushing twice in quick succession locks in that mode.
In both cases, there's no need to type those shift keys and no confusion in a user's mind which mode he's in.
4. A lighted keyboard can be handy, particularly with these tiny keyboards, but lighting consumes a battery. Make the keyboard light only when one of the top corners is pushed. That still leaves one of the top corners for some other use.
5. Make pushing in the mid-sides and mid-top/bottom serve as cursor keys, i.e. pushing on the right-center moves the cursor to the right. That's four less keys needed on the keyboard and a far more intuitive UI.
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I'd also suggest that the Typo people (or someone) create a set of keyboards that work with other companies' cases. I like my tough Otter Defender case. I don't want to give it up for a flimsy keyboard case no matter how handy the keyboard. Create some mechanism to make the two work together.
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TouchID I use every time I touch my iPhone as It's used to you know, UNLOCK MY IPHONE!!! I so miss it every time I go use my iPad 3 and have to enter my password. If you're dumb enough not to passlock your phone, well you're asking for it.
As blatant as their Z series iPhoneys.
Maybe if they get the 1M they can post a 1M quarterly profit.
Anyone who uses the word "gimmick" immediately loses all credibility to me.
This guy also mentions he has NEVER used TouchID. So how the hell could he criticize it?
No. YOU are not typical. People pay $500 more for an iPhone because they love the product, for the features. Call them fanboys all day but people pay because they want TouchID among other features. Most people with iPhone 6 use TouchID.
Your post sounds so damn trollish. Especially with so many people reporting %99-100 success rate with TouchID. Reminds me of fandroid posters claiming iPhone features suck even though they've never owned one.
If you and your wife can't use simple technology, get a flip phone.
So now nobody can make a touch screen phone without it being labeled a iPhoney?
Seems to me lately, that more and more of the lesser gene pools are invading Ai's comments sections... Where I work, anyone that has an iPhone 5S (like myself) or the 6/6+, SWEAR by Touch ID. That "gimmick" is what powers the most secure contactless payment platform on the planet, ?Pay. That "gimmick" is what allows people to use their phone with the best encryption, whilst not being forced to enter an unlock PIN each and every time they want to use their device. That "gimmick" has brought a level of security and convenience to the smartphone never before seen. And I bet your company is fully of drooling Microsoft crybabies that suck at the proverbial teet dangling from Satya Nadella...
I'm up in Canada, and barring the owner having gloves on, temperature doesn't affect Touch ID in the slightest. I've used my 5S in the rocky mountains, on top of those mountains, and, guess what? It works 100%.
Maybe they can get away from this precarious situation by paying $86,00 … saying they thought it was a typo.
The judge awarded the fine because the company ignored the judges injunction not because the patent violation.
Ahhhh but even the quick injunction was a result of it being a relatively easy case.
My touchID sometimes doesn't work when I use Siri and she tells me I need to unlock the phone.
It pops the keypad up but holding my thumb on the touch ID sensor occasionally I don't even get a wiggle of the numbers. I have to put in the passcode.
I haven't found rhyme or reason when this happens.
Yeah, who can understand women?
I also find the court's decision in favor of Blackberry bizarre. Compare the two keyboards above and you'll see that virtually all the similarity is the QWERTY key layout, which no one owns.
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The makers of Typo might want to concentrate their attention in another area. Look at virtually every small Bluetooth keyboard on the market and you'll find an ill-designed product. Most are junk. Examples:
1. Why are their uppercase shift keys? That makes sense on full-sized keyboards where we are using all ten fingers. It make no sense with a tiny keyboard where we are using two thumbs. Make the UC shift work with a user pushing in with his hand on one side at the bottom.
2. Make pushing in on the other side at the bottom shift into numeric/punctuation mode.
3. For both, push and hold stays in those modes for as long as there's pushing. Pushing twice in quick succession locks in that mode.
In both cases, there's no need to type those shift keys and no confusion in a user's mind which mode he's in.
4. A lighted keyboard can be handy, particularly with these tiny keyboards, but lighting consumes a battery. Make the keyboard light only when one of the top corners is pushed. That still leaves one of the top corners for some other use.
5. Make pushing in the mid-sides and mid-top/bottom serve as cursor keys, i.e. pushing on the right-center moves the cursor to the right. That's four less keys needed on the keyboard and a far more intuitive UI.
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I'd also suggest that the Typo people (or someone) create a set of keyboards that work with other companies' cases. I like my tough Otter Defender case. I don't want to give it up for a flimsy keyboard case no matter how handy the keyboard. Create some mechanism to make the two work together.
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