Touch ID
product on 7 shows · 5 statements across 3 episodes · said 23 times in 13 episodes since 2017
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McKinnon: Apple Touch ID dramatically increased iPhone passcode adoption rates
“They've turned on passcodes and more people are, have their phones locked now than ever before because they made it easier. You didn't have to type in that code and now they have a fingerprint reader.”
Evans: Commodity OEMs cannot match Apple's tight hardware and software integration
“When you look at things like Touch ID, when you look at Apple Pay, when you look at the things that they do with that integration you know, it's very hard for a commodity OEM using somebody else's operating system and somebody else's components to compete with…”
Culver: Law Enforcement Accesses Biometrics More Easily Than iPhone Passcodes
“I think it's much easier for law enforcement to access your phone via touch ID, like you were saying through touch ID or facial recognition. But the nice thing Apple does is if you have three failed attempts, Or if you shut off your phone, you have to reenter …”
Culver: Register only one thumb to intentionally trigger iPhone passcode lockouts
“I tend to only put one of my thumbs in the thumbprint so that if I needed to, I could use my other thumb and just pretend like, oh, it's just, I'm nervous. It's not working. Until it locks me out.”