Soli

pausa said:

Hi! In the video, you said that Face ID didn't work when your eyes were closed which you suggested would prevent someone from pointing the phone at you to unlock it if you had phone asleep and they had access to your phone. But later in the video you said it worked while you were wearing sunglasses. Did you mean that FaceID recognized you? If so, that would seem to contradict the eyes-closed test, right? And wouldn't that mean that someone could access your phone (by pointing it at you) if you had fallen asleep with your sunglasses on? Just want to see if I understood the video correctly. Thanks!

IR will penetrate most sunglasses. His eyes would still have to be open behind the sunglasses, though. There is a specific wavelength that some sunglasses block (940nm wavelength) which will prevent Face ID from working because it won't be able to read your eyes.

PS: It'll be interesting to see sunglasses start to advertise that their glasses work with the iPhone X.

kevin kee said:

clexman said:

For a premium $350 device, this is a little disappointing.

I don't agree. Sonos is as expensive and can do even less.

What looks to be closest competitor to the HomePod's speaker setup is the Sonos One. It only costs $199 and just today they announced that full Alexa, Spotify, SiriusXM and other integrations will be added the same month the HomePod is suppose to launch and needing a connection to your iDevice.

If a pair of these or other Songs devices can connect to my TV for audio out so that it works with my Apple TV I'm pretty sure I'll passing on buying a 2 HomePods based on today's information. I find Apple Music to be a disastrous design for sourcing music and creating playlists compared to Spotify, but even if you love Apple Music that's still one of the 50 options for Songs.

• http://www.sonos.com/en-us/shop/one.html

PS: I can't wrap my head around Apple's inability to best Amazon in this space. They had many additional years to develop Siri and had Siri on the market many years before Amazon hit the ground running with their incredible Echo product and Alexa service, a service that has simply gotten better every week… and I literally mean every week because Amazon sends you an email each Friday letting you know about new Skills (what they call3rd-party apps for Alexa) and other commands to try out. These emails are a simple concept that allow the user to check out new commands, improved commands, popular Skills, and even seasonal commands. Out of sight, out of mind plays a big role with voice commands. I'm sure there are plenty of Siri commands that work great now but either I've never heard of them or I tried them when they first launched but it didn't go well so I erased that as a option, so now I'm regulated to just the basic commands that work. How doesn't Apple get this and why do they think that Siri commands should only be touted once a year when they update iOS after throwing a dozens of other features at us to digest?

maury markowitz said:

> To pay, you double tap the side button, similar to Apple Watch.

This strikes me as a real step backward.

Right now I keep my phone in my left shirt pocket, facing in, with the button at the top.

To use APay, I simply reach up with with my right hand and grasp the end, with my thumb on the button. As I place it on the reader, this naturally "flips" the phone face up while also authenticating. It's one single motion.

This is especially important because I have found most readers have some sort of plastic or rubbery C-shaped "cup" around the number buttons that are below the display area in order stop people from seeing you type in a PIN. These interfere with the placement of the phone, which I normally have to rotate so it's sideways on the reader.

Now it appears I will have to hold the phone in such a way that I can double click the buttons, and while it can see my face. I'm a bit concerned that this will make it more difficult to use in this case, although only time will tell.

I see your point, but this might be welcome to many as one of the common complaints I hear from people with Apple Pay is that end up paying with the wrong card because Touch ID is so fast. On this forum in the last couple weeks I had a discussion with someone that prefers their Apple Watch because they can do the more deliberate action of pressing the side button twice to activate Apple Pay.

k2kw said:

Soli said:

I don't see how this ends well for Qualcomm.

It might end with Apple only making GSM phones I.e. ATT and T-Mobile in USA next year

I don't think that will happen since even this year's Apple Watch contains only GSM-based cellular tech (UMTS and LTE), and works with Verizon and Sprint. I'm not saying that we're ready for that next year with the iPhone but if push came to shove I think Qualcomm's footing for CDMA-based radios is a weak bargaining chip.

cpsro said:

Steven Levy says the notch "magically" disappears in screen captures. Do the rounded corners also give way to sharp corners?

Yes, because developers build for the box form of the display size. They need to keep in mind where the display area isn't present, but Apple has made this as simple as I can imagine making it

• https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/fall2017/801/