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Re: What happens to Apple's Touch ID now?

From nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: What happens to Apple's Touch ID now?
Date 2017-11-18 17:02 -0500
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <181120171702038874%nospam@nospam.invalid> (permalink)
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In article <ouq85t$1kp0$1@gioia.aioe.org>, Your Name
<YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

> The Touch Bar can do Touch ID, but it is also used for a lot of other, 
> mostly useless and pointless, functions. It was really added as a 
> gimmick and a testbed for replacing the laptop's keyboard with a 
> customisable touch-screen*. In both cases it failed, so the Touch Bar 
> is likely to disappear simply because very few people bother to use it, 
> as well as not being available on a desktop Mac nor most of Apple's 
> laptops.

nonsense. the touchbar and touchid sensor are not the same, the
touchbar was never intended to replace the keyboard and it has not
failed. apple just reported the best quarter for mac sales ever.

> * If you listen very carefully you can hear the idiot Johny Ive chanting
>   "Thinner, thinner!" every time you look at the Touch Bar.

more idiocy.

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What happens to Apple's Touch ID now? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2017-11-17 03:02 -0500
  Re: What happens to Apple's Touch ID now? android <here@there.was> - 2017-11-17 13:07 +0100
  Re: What happens to Apple's Touch ID now? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2017-11-17 13:40 -0500
    Re: What happens to Apple's Touch ID now? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2017-11-17 15:03 -0500
      Re: What happens to Apple's Touch ID now? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-11-17 17:13 -0500
      Re: What happens to Apple's Touch ID now? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-11-18 04:13 +0000
        Re: What happens to Apple's Touch ID now? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-11-18 04:28 +0000
      Re: What happens to Apple's Touch ID now? northerntiger@outlook.com - 2017-11-18 08:46 -0800
        Re: What happens to Apple's Touch ID now? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2017-11-18 15:03 -0500
          Re: What happens to Apple's Touch ID now? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-11-18 16:12 -0500
          Re: What happens to Apple's Touch ID now? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2017-11-19 10:19 +1300
            Re: What happens to Apple's Touch ID now? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-11-18 17:02 -0500
              Re: What happens to Apple's Touch ID now? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2017-11-18 19:19 -0500
                Re: What happens to Apple's Touch ID now? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-11-18 19:38 -0500
      Re: What happens to Apple's Touch ID now? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2017-11-19 14:14 -0500
        Re: What happens to Apple's Touch ID now? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2017-11-20 09:20 +1300
  Re: What happens to Apple's Touch ID now? northerntiger@outlook.com - 2017-11-18 08:45 -0800
    Re: What happens to Apple's Touch ID now? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-11-18 12:07 -0500
    Re: What happens to Apple's Touch ID now? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2017-11-18 15:01 -0500
    Re: What happens to Apple's Touch ID now? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-11-19 04:13 +0000

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