But people also like the iPhone SE's original home button, and its Touch ID. According to well-known leaker Evan Blass, the forthcoming "New Year iPhone 2020" (assuming iPhone SE 2) will retain the home button, and we have no reason to doubt this.
But given its investment in using Face ID for facial recognition, will Apple make a new phone with a low-tech verification method?
We doubt Blass's lack of intelligence and reliable records. That's right, Apple is still producing the iPhone 8 for home use, but the phone debuted in 2017 and is now sold as a budget model. However, Apple is likely to replace the 8 with this new iPhone SE 2 (or whatever it is eventually called)-meaning that the company actually has a clean choice.
Apple Corp. has explicitly chosen not to develop an in-screen fingerprint sensor, which is different from all flagship Android phones competing with the top iPhone and instead relies on Face ID for biometric technology. So, to be honest, we doubt that Apple will allow iPhone SE 2 to have both Face ID and Touch ID.
It feels like Apple has been sticking to its design philosophy of designing products that consumers want once they see them, rather than what consumers say they want. From the 1980s imitating and perfecting Xerox's GUI and mouse through the Macintosh to launching an almost full-screen iPhone in 2007, this is the company's successful philosophy.
Steve Jobs is often quoted as saying, "Our job is to figure out what they want first." This seems to indicate a characteristic of Apple's refusal to succumb to customer demand. For years, the company has ignored the requirement to switch to a USB-C port (iPhone), not just having a USB-C port (MacBook) and longer battery life (Apple Watch).
Therefore, we do not want to predict that Apple will allow the iPhone SE 2 to have both Touch ID and Face ID, because consumers have wanted to do so for many years. Rationally, Apple has reason to refuse to return fingerprint authentication, even though many applications still allow Apple to cater to older iPhone and iPad users: it also no longer uses its technology.
Think about the bold choices the company made in the past: cancel the disk drive in the original iMac, cancel the 3.5mm headphone jack in the iPhone 7, and cancel the CD-ROM in the MacBook Air. Apple's reputation is built on the confident choice of consumer technology to force a transition to the usual new data transmission standards.
In this case, this data is your biometric password, and if Apple's ecosystem has gradually shifted to relying solely on facial recognition, then there is little reason for Apple to meet consumer demand, and it is supported in almost every annual milestone OS update Fewer touch-only device devices.
True, there is a compromise that could explain Blass's iPhone SE 2 scoop, but it seems confusing: give the phone a home button, but don't give it Touch ID.
This seems to be more trouble than it should be: Apple's production line will definitely produce the Touch ID home button for older iPhones and iPads, which can be reconfigured to remove fingerprint recognition, but the significance of SE 2 is to save more budget markets. Fingerprint sensors can be found in cheap phones because they are cheaper to produce.
We're happy to prove wrong, especially since the iPhone SE 2 is a bit contrary to Apple's strategy of raising the price of mobile phones anyway. If the new phone really uses Touch ID for budget design, don't we see other long-lost features? Will Apple eventually succumb to consumer demand? We have to wait until the iPhone SE 2 launches (if the "early 2020" rumors are correct) to find the answer in the next few months.
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