14 DAY TRIAL // Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who previously said he didn’t plan to get an iPhone X on day one, revealed that he actually tried out the new model and while it worked quite alright, it’s not the device he wanted.
Woz said in an interview with The Australian that he received an iPhone X from Apple, as he wasn’t willing to purchase the device. “But my wife will, so I’ll be close enough to see it,” he said earlier this year.
And as it turns out, while the iPhone X does its job very well, there still are setbacks that Wozniak isn’t willing to deal with, such as the lack of a fingerprint sensor.
“It works fine, but it’s not what I would want. I think what I would want is Touch ID on the back. I’d want that more than anything. Face ID slows down my Apple Pay, and it fails enough times I have to keep typing the password,” he said.
Face ID turned off
The Apple co-founder also blasted Face ID, revealing that some of his friends turned off the feature because it made the device more difficult to use.
“I have friends who actually turned off Face ID and turned passwords on to make their phone simple to use. I wasn’t going to get the iPhone X, but Tim Cook’s office heard I wasn’t going to get it so they sent me one, and I bit the bullet,” he continued.
Rumors that reached the web earlier this year indicated that Apple originally planned to embed the fingerprint sensor into the screen, and the company only made the decision to launch the iPhone X with facial recognition exclusively after this experiment failed.
Apple, on the other hand, says this has never been the case and the company wanted the device to feature Face ID from the very beginning, with no work on embedding the fingerprint sensor into the screen.