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foggyhill said:

gmgravytrain said:

If this story is true, it may give Apple some helpful advantage for six months. I'm sure most Android manufacturers are going to stay with fingerprint readers as unlocking devices until they find out that Apple's tech is hugely successful. At that point, they'll all rush to whatever tech Apple is using as the initial fears will be removed. Apple will have already absorbed all the fear, doubts and skepticism of the new tech. I can certainly understand many companies not wanting to take the risk. Wall Street will still say Apple is behind the rest of the smartphone industry, so nothing will change. I think it really does take 'courage' for a company to dump a proven technology and go with something new but Apple will likely be mocked, as usual. I believe Apple's new FacialID tech will be accepted by most users as long as it's secure, accurate and as fast as TouchID.

 It will be interesting to hear what Qualcomm has to say about being very close to Apple in terms of quickly getting facial recognition on Android smartphones. I'm sure Qualcomm is going to have something to say about this. That Qualcomm CEO is very protective of his company and he surely won't allow anyone to think Qualcomm is behind any competitors.

The advantage is much longer than that, in six months, use in high end phones can maybe start in 6 months, but that's not when they're released.
That means it won't make it until early 2019 in something like the S10.

Qualcom is about to get its financials ripped out of it by Apple and others. It can try all it wants, it's in the ropes now.