Apple Lost steerage. It did CEO Tim Cook obvious during Tuesday’s press event in Cupertino, California. Cook, who assumed the leadership polo after late Steve Jobs, has been since he took office in 2011 had trouble convincing the market with Apple’s new products. On Tuesday, he got another chance with the launch of two new iPhone models.
Looking at specifications on the new premium model iPhone 5S compared to the Iphone 5 shows a few improvements. Including a marginally improved battery life, a major update to the processor and småfix on the camera, which certainly benefits greatly from the upphottade hardware.
But the most notable change was that the iPhone 5S will have the fingerprint reader Touch ID built into the start button. Instead of personal codes and passwords will now be enough to put your finger on the phone, for example to unlock the screen or complete the purchase of apps.
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Now, biometric technology is not news in the mobile world. As early as 2011, Motorola launched a fingerprinting solution in their model Atrix 4g. The technique was abandoned after complaints and a lack of interest from users.
Apple chooses to implement the technology do raise more questions now than when Motorola did it in 2011. Apple is a far bigger player than Motorola, whose mobile department was acquired by Google in 2012. And in the shadow of the past few weeks NSA revelations could not timing from Apple have been worse.
First of all, we ask ourselves, why would we want to give Apple our fingerprints? Apple Friendly site mac99 wrote that “the great advantage for the user with Touch ID is that it is possible to safely unlock the screen and replace cumbersome password entry with a touch of a finger.”
Intricacies input? If you find it difficult to enter a four-digit code so one should reasonably think that it is impossible to operate a smartphone.
Technology site The Verges smartphone pundits believe that Touch ID is a “really cool thing”. He has perhaps right in. The technology is undeniably cool and similar to pure science fiction. But at what price?
Although Apple ensures that your fingerprint is encrypted and stored deep in the new phone’s processor, there is to my knowledge no evidence that you should trust that the information will not end up in the hands of others . In recent weeks, revelations that the NSA has built-in security vulnerabilities in encryption standards demonstrates the extent of the surveillance on the Internet.
Smartphones should not be exempt, on the contrary.
“world’s intelligence services receives it with warm hands,” said security expert Christopher Kullenberg. He says that smartphones in general is a treasure trove of surveillance authorities.
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When Apple launched its first iPhone in January 2007, it meant a revolution for the smart phone. What differed an Iphone from all other smartphones then was that it had superior usability and could be used by everyone, not just techies. When Apple was a problem solver. Today, six years later, Apple feels more like a problem creator.
For sure, there are problems with the previous model, iPhone 5, which Apple would have had to rectify. Personally I would have liked a lot better battery life and a fully functional 4G option for us in Sweden (according to Telia is not certain that the new iPhone will operate on Swedish 4G frequencies). If the company had also drawn attention to sustainable production, where time is not some “suicide factories” are among the suppliers, had possibly even I packed my sleeping bag to queue at the Apple store. But none of that came true.
Instead we got a new handset in gaudy colors (how about “rymdgrå”?) with a deep problem inherent in the start button.
With the purchase of an iPhone 5S will namely a dilemma: Are we prepared to give up our own fingerprints to a company?
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