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Apple announces Sep. 10 special event
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It was Craig Federighi tho. Hair Force One!
DXB-KNIGHT
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I hope the new phone's screen size is bigger
CosmicGroinPull
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We'll know the government is involved if Apple makes registering all 10 fingers a must.
I use Siri a lot in the car to do things that don't require an Internet connection, like sending and reading texts or playing certain songs. It's almost always slow as fuck on my 3G connection.
Haha, thanks for the correction. Phil was getting his swag on that day and I couldn't remember who said it.
Bluetooth LE does everything NFC does but better. It even has range awareness and can customize responses based on distance to the beacon.
Examples given in the WWDC session were to show general menu items when you get in the store, show receipt stuff when near register. Show general museum stuff when in museum area, specific exhibit information when you get closer to an exhibit.
There is a JB app that takes photos using the front facing camera and sends it to your email when someone types in the wrong code. Combine that with a false finger print signature and a database of finger prints, you could solve any case without needing to find semen.
That's a very inelegant solution.
No semen, no deal.
I'm not talking about about using it solely as a payment system, how about something more practical as using it to open doors, grant access etc..., assuming said NFC would be programmable.
and NFC hasn't taken off yet? My goddamn bank card has NFC and I use it all the time.
In a city next to Toronto, our transit system uses an NFC boarding pass which will soon become mandatory in the near future.
bluetooth LE . Seems like a much better standard in my opinion. Especially since Bluetooth chipsets are already a standard part of most SoCs
NFC has fallen flat.
No it hasn't, it's just getting started
I personally don't see any demand for NFC. If I could buy something easily in line, add it to my passbook and scan the code, that's plenty convenient for me.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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Why are you so passionate about that particular hardware implementation when there's an arguably better existing one that nimble posted about?
Duane Cunningham
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Dang, app updates ahoy tonight. Funny how none of them say in the notes it's for 7.0 tomorrow. Yet I got like a dozen in one day. Apple must have NDAd even mentioning 7.0's existence.
That's what people say about technology that will probably never take off in it's current implementation. NFC is not about to take off. It's adoption is increasing from nearly nothing to more than nothing but I think the LE standard is a much more technology sound future proof approach.
"NFC sucks" -MThanded 2013
Its been a few years people have wanted NFC to bump their phones together and look like idiots.
The new Real Racing 3 update specifically mentions 7.0. I was a little surprised those notes were allowed to publish.
It require a vendors and those who are just now adopting traditional NFC methods to revamp their systems yet again.
Bluetooth LE seems to be better than NFC for those scenarios. You want to find the NFC scanner to bump your phone to, or just have the door get unlocked when you get close to it? There are already a couple of Bluetooth LE door locks that work with the iPhone:
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/06/smart-locks/
Scanning my fingerprint on a strangers device gives them all my info? I hope that was a joke. AirDrop is far superior and requires less hassle.
Maybe we'll get multiple users (finally)? Scan a fingerprint and it launches that user. Doesn't really work well in the phone department but on an iPad it would be nice.
I just hope this ends up being a killer feature and not just some add-on that we may or may not use.
Maybe we'll get multiple users (finally)? Scan a fingerprint and it launches that user. Doesn't really work well in the phone department but on an iPad it would be nice.
I just hope this ends up being a killer feature and not just some add-on that we may or may not use.
You honestly believe that?
You leaving it up to Apple to determine whether a certain technology is deemed fit for masses?
Well as an embedded computer engineer my perspective is that the BT LE standard is much more flexible and useful than the NFC standard. I think Apple and their team of engineers is most likely in that same camp. They also realize that committing to NFC now would possibly limit the adoption of BT LE enabled solutions. So I am glad they haven't gone that route.
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I just hope you can scan your fingerprint instead of entering passwords and stuff since keychain is a new ios feature. At the very least your apple Id, but it's be awesome everywhere.
Saw this about five minutes ago. Looks okay.
Its a mock up. Not official.
Bluetooth LE is very cheap to implement, though. That's why you see so many products embracing it. On the financial side, it looks like Paypal is embracing it: https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/beacon
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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This is the most bizarre thing to so strongly "pick a side" on.
In which case I apologise!
I skipped the iPhone 5, pretty excited to see what the 5S offers. The finger print ring/ID sensor is rumoured to be just silver.
Why is it bizarre? If they included regular NFC I would have zero reason to carry my wallet.
My transit uses NFC, most of my interac purchases use it, it would have a profound effect on my day to day, I believe for others as well. Who said I was picking sides?
Is this a joke post? It's late. I can't tell.
What's the joke? It's 3pm here.
CosmicGroinPull
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That's the stuff of sci-fi right there, if that thin ring is supposed to scan your fingerprint.....
polyh3dron
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Hoping for new Thunderbolt Display that also supports input from regular displayport cables so I can use it with both a Mac and PC. I could build a PC with thunderbolt but then you can only output the video card signal through the a thunderbolt port by using this shitty program called Virtu MVP which breaks a lot of games apparently and is generally just buggy.
minor effort
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I wouldn't mind a jumbo iPhone ONLY if they kept an iPhone 5 sized one in their "flagship" lineup. Because the smaller one is the oneid go with.
Dr_Boris_Goltz
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I don't think I can wait any longer for iOS7 if it isn't released tomorrow.
Can anyone explain or PM me instructions on how to get it on my phone?
Can anyone explain or PM me instructions on how to get it on my phone?
Silver_DNA
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My 3GS is ready to die any day now. So I'm pretty interested to see what's going down tomorrow.
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The Dutch Slayer
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So you guys think that iphone and ipad at this event or separate event for the 2?
Duebrithil
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Well, I kinda understand where they are coming from. Personally I don't mind screen size that much but having used a 3GS all these years a 16:9 aspect ratio on a phone feels strange, so I'd really like a different screen.
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