July 28, 2012: Apple is buying Biometrics Company Authecc and gaining technology that will drive the Touch ID for verification and secure payments on iPhone and other devices.
With a $ 356 million price mark, the Apple agreement provides the right to use hardware, software and patents of Authence. In the short term, Apple engineers will start working to build touch ID sensors to the iPhone 5s. Mobile Technical Wallet Authentec prepares a way for Apple Pay.
Fingerprint sensor iPhone: long time in production
Although the dream of using fingerprint sensors on smartphones has existed for some time, Authendec technology did not work initially as planned. In 2013, the co -founder of F. Scott Moody remembered how the early Demo Authentec for IBM gone wrong in the worst possible way: the Chief IBM Technology Director thought for another co -founder of AutPC.
After authenc made changes and showed the final product, it did not take long before companies, including Motorola, Fujitsu and Apple, are issued by foresters concerning potential purchase. Apple eventually won.
However, Motorola actually defeated Apple on the market when its mobility Atrix 4G was delivered with a fingerprint sensor in 2011, two years before Apple’s touch ID. Although Motorola’s technology worked reasonably well, it turned out less than intuitive. The rest of the fingerprint scanner on the back of the phone. And users needed to run it rather than simply touch it for verification.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFMINHG0M4
Authenc Tech makes touch of touch better than competition
The Apple Touch ID solution, on the other hand, was not just safe. It turned out to be very fast, as well as bankruptcy faster and easier than knocking even in a short, four -digit pin.
“The biggest thing Apple gets is probably a strong game to use biometry for identity in general for online and bricks and mortars, to log in to the website and even for digital signatures. Mac cult Wrote at the time of the acquisition of Authecc.
Touch ID Arrival on iPhone 5s in 2013, which is initially used only to unlock the headphone. A year later, to start the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, Apple expanded the usefulness of the Touch ID. Suddenly the world of fingerprint sensor verifies iTunes and App Store by Apple Pay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5zt1v7h88i
Touch your face ID, face ID and the future of Apple biometry
With the Face ID, the Apple face recognition function, which was launched in 2017 with the iPhone X in 2017, seems to be the days of touching we are wide at the end. However, Apple still incorporates technology into some of its basic products.
The third -generation iPhone, released at the beginning of 2022, and the ninth iPad, released in 2021, both use the touch ID in their home buttons in the old school. The latest basic iPad and iPad Mini assemble the touch sensor ID to the power button.
What do you think about the Touch ID when you first saw it or used it? Are you glad it was replaced on newer iPhones? Leave your comments and memories below.
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