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Rumor: New iPhones with secure iris scanners coming in 2018
it is true that today’s sensor can be spoofed but it is not that easy to get the right print to unlock the device under the conditions imposed by the system.gatorguy said:
IF it happens my guess is it replaces fingerprints for authentication, if not immediately then soon afterwards. There are proven methods to spoof fingerprints for unlocking our devices, which of course are readily available to law enforcement or other investigators as they're on nearly everything we've touched.ericthehalfbee said:I don't see it. Fingerprint is super fast and convenient. What good is there to having two completely separate biometric devices on one iPhone? People will just use the one that works all the time under any conditions (fingerprint).
I would prefer if they came up with another fingerprint technology that wouldn’t be fooled.
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Rumor: New iPhones with secure iris scanners coming in 2018
It doesn’t make sense to replace the fingerprint sensor with this. It is much less convenient on a smartphone because it requires to frame the eyes on the camera, it is slower and sensitive to environmental light.
It only makes sense as an extra verification step of identity under some conditions, but I would prefer if they improved the fingerprint sensor so that it would scan the finger much deeper in the dermis, making it impossible to fool with just the print.
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Apple proposes flat streaming music royalties for songwriters, at the expense of Spotify, YouTube
did you read the first line?Rayz2016 said:I have two questions.
Number one: does Spotify pay any of its advertising royalty to the artists who are streamed on their free tier?
Number two is not really a question, more of a scenario: Apple proposes a new royalty scheme that will pay artists more money. They adopt it and the music industry rejoices. Following a few anonymous complaints, the guv'mint decides that since the music industry are all giving more exclusives to Apple then something fishy is going on. They sue Apple and the music industry. The music industry settles and slinks off to a corner, leaving Apple to carry the can. A judge declares Apple guilty before the trial has begun, and so the company loses and has to put up with a court-appointed monitor who bills them millions while doing nothing, and Apple also ends up paying a massive fine.
Does this scenario give anyone a sense of déjà vu?
My tuppence worth of advice to Apple: drop this – now.
"submitted a proposal to the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board"
It is the Government that will decide the Royalty scheme
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Nancy Pelosi expresses disappointment over Tim Cook's GOP fundraiser
what a cheap shot. It almost seems like she believes that every republican is like Donald Trump
Having said that it does seem probable that Tim Cook’s fundraiser was a way to appease the republican party after snubbing the party convention because of Trump
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Apple douses rumor of impending iMessage release for Android
If Apple doesn’t do it in a few years there will be no financial incentive for Apple to keep iMessage because almost no one will see any advantage from having it on any Apple hardware.hmurchison said:There's no financial incentive. The features of iMessage require Xcode and selling stickers is probably not lucrative enough to strengthen the competition's offerings.
At least if they tried to go cross-platform they could get other people to notice Apple’s ecosystem advantage through integration, and they could get some financial reward through something like Apple Pay for money transfer or services payments inside Messages.
