Apple has been accused numerous times over the past years of following market trends rather than starting them, and more importantly, falsely advertising existing technology as innovation.
Technically, the iPhone X is hardly the world’s first facial-scanning mobile device, but without a doubt, Cupertino’s TrueDepth camera system and Face ID feature are a “revolution in recognition.”
Whether Apple lowered its initial quality standards or not to improve yields and ramp up production, this biometric authentication mechanism is lightyears ahead of rival solutions because it uses a so-called 3D sensor.
