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Wondering if Apple should have rather spent their time and energy in R&D for a front-facing camera sitting behind an OLED screen so we could have a real bezel-less screen.

Earspeaker behind a screen works already (a Chinese handset manufacturer did this) and I dont need the other sensors and that for Face-ID. I found a fingerprint sensor better anyway.

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Apple has a patent on a camera integrated into the display. So it’ll happen at some point. There’s probably a team working on it in R&D as we speak.

How did you find TouchID to be better than FaceID? Did you get a pre-release version of iPhone X?

> Wondering if Apple should have rather spent their time and energy in R&D for …

I'm pretty sure Apple R&D is continuing apace :) They ship updates every year, so at some point during the cycle they have to decide what they'll ship in the next model. Figuring out which set of features to ship now that also keeps them on a path forward to a not-completely-decided future is quite a challenge, I'm sure. They've been pretty successful so far.

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