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Apple Is Really Bad at Design

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37 pointskeehun8 comments

I tried to take the article seriously, but the CSS animations become so distracting that it turned the piece into sublime piece of satire.

I personally don't find the notch distasteful. The only problem I have is with Safari's complete embrace of it even necessitating whole new css customizations[0] and letter-boxing(!!) of websites that haven't customized its handling of the notch in landscape mode!

[0]: https://webkit.org/blog/7929/designing-websites-for-iphone-x...

> The justification for the notch (the new Face ID tech, which lets you unlock the device just by looking at it) could have easily been accomplished with no visual break in the display.

They could've also put the fingerprint reader on the back and do away completely with the Face ID idea. After all, supposedly Apple didn't even consider doing Face ID at first -- they only did it because they couldn't put the fingerprint reader under glass.

But I guess they found the idea of putting the fingerprint reader on the back so repulsive (??) that they instead went on the quest to make a much more secure Face ID (presumably) that also comes with the disadvantage of disrupting the users' screen experience.

If you believe the Apple execs that have been using Face ID, it's absolutely a 'magical' technology. Faces (to a lesser extent voices) are the primary way that humans authenticate each other.

It's crazy to me that people complain so much about losing Touch ID, or think that Face ID was a 'backup plan'. Like Apple would be working for years on a more secure, more advanced authentication mechanism, but then use it as a backup plan?

When my sister can open my phone, it is “more” secure than Touch ID? I think you’re caught in a reality distortion field.

http://bgr.com/2017/09/27/iphone-x-face-id-vs-touch-id-iphon...

It's kind of funny, I recently switched from a note 4 with front fingerprint scanner to an s8 with the scanner on the back. I much prefer the scanner on the back, I use it when the face recognition unlock fails in low light situations and it only requires me to slightly move one finger from my natural grip position.

I wrote this about AirPort Time Capsule a few months ago. Seems apropos here: https://pastebin.com/hF3K779Z

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvoXDSHO-mA

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