first appeared on Apple's iPhone5s eight years ago. Since then, almost all smartphones have added this feature. However, in 2017, Apple launched the iPhoneX with a full-screen design. Because it was equipped with Face ID facial recognition, fingerprint recognition was cancelled.
Today, although most Android phones also support facial recognition, fingerprint recognition is still reserved for convenience. After all, facial recognition is useless if you wear a mask. However, the iPhone has never supported fingerprint recognition, and it is said that this year’s iPhone 13 series does not have it. Why is that?
1. Confident in facial recognition
Apple’s Face ID is a payment-level facial recognition system with very high security, while only a few Android phones are payment-level facial recognition, most of which are just Unlock the lock, you still have to use your fingerprints to pay. Therefore, Apple can remove fingerprints as a matter of course.
2. Cost saving
Eliminating fingerprint recognition can indeed save a lot of costs, not only the hardware cost of the fingerprint module, but also the design cost of the entire mobile phone, because the fingerprint module The group will affect the stacking of the screen, battery and internal space.
3. Apple is teaching users to use mobile phones
This is Apple’s usual style. Domestic Android phones are what users need, and I do what I do. Apple is what I do. You can use it as I ask you to use it. How to put it, this product strategy has pros and cons, but no fingerprint is indeed sometimes not convenient.
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