Apple might ditch Touch ID altogether for next year’s iPhones
It’s a little early to put much credibility in rumors about the next iPhones coming in 2018. But KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who has established a strong track record of Apple hardware forecasts, says that the company is likely to completely move away from Touch ID on the successors to this year’s iPhone 8, 8 Plus, and X. MacRumors reported on Kuo’s latest note. Hopefully the various components of the tech will be more readily available by then; the Touch ID system is believed to be one of the bottlenecks that could severely limit supply of the iPhone X when it goes on sale November 3rd.
The iPhone X is the first Apple smartphone to feature a design with no home button, and it replaces Touch ID with the company’s new Face ID...