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Nobody and no jury is going to believe this steaming pile of bullshit from Apple, and rightly so. They would be well served to state the truth from here on - rather than keep feeding this bullshit narrative.

They throttled performance to encourage upgrading. They wrote this code as a narrative in case they were ever found out. Never because they wanted to prolong the period of people buying new phones and hurting profits. 
They deceived everyone because they wanted a better customer experience???
What kind of drooling morons do they take us for?

They are going to get absolutely destroyed in courts all over the globe and in the US congress.
 

Word - the worst program that ever was and ever shall be. 

StrangeDays said:

- Why would you need to unlock the phone to put it to your ear? Accepting a call never requires authentication. 

- What loss of privacy are you talking about? Specifically? Lost to whom?

To make a call... you need to unlock the phone. To glance at info/notifications... from what I saw on the keynote, FR is somewhat cumbersome. If you need that level of security, then I guess you need it.

As far as privacy - don't be naive. Government and law enforcement have access to all data gathered. We learned this from Snowden - all the while Apple selling the same lie that it's protected - having to later admit it does store and hand over this info. Then we learned it again that the 'can never be decrypted' was decrypted in a day by some 'third party' to help crack that terrorist's cell phone. 

I don't think people want to give their biometric facial information to a company notorious for lying about its 'anonymous' and 'secure' data collection that is neither. 
I've only spoken to 3 people about it today - but none of them are warm to the idea.
Doesn't mean it won't sell like hotcakes - but I doubt the majority will use the FR. I don't know anyone who uses the touch security on their phones. They are either passcode or none - for the same privacy reasons - and that's gotta be well over 20 people. 

Time will tell thou. Facebook had a lot of blowback over their FR. 
If Apple Pay gets more traction - maybe it will take off. But it hasn't exactly taken off has it. 

I found nothing compelling about the X other than the color/build quality and OLED display. 
The constant face scanning is actually a major turn-off and not something I want. 
It's actually a lot faster and more convienent to click the home button while pulling the phone out of your pocket and straight to your ear, than bringing the phone to your forward looking face and swiping up before bringing to your ear. 

I sense a growing divergence in what people will accept in regards to privacy.
I don't think the X will fail, but the face recognition will. For the same reason Oculus failed... it's a step too far in loss of privacy. 

The 8 will blow the X out of the water in sales for this reason alone. 

I sense more pirating and lower profits for all. 
Why do these corporations never learn?