The iPhone X reveals why Tim Cook was so mad about Palm

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1 point·mfoy_··5 comments

What if I want the X - but I do not was faceID and what if I cover the dot projector with tape?

If I can disable faceID on MY phone, if I pickup/look-at/have my picture taken in a selfie with another person and their phone - is it auto-tagging my face in those?

Face ID and face tagging are unrelated.

"Whether the Palm Pre was truly ahead of its time, or whether elements of the interface had been plucked out of a carefully planned Cupertino 10-year roadmap will be a story for Valley historians to unpick."

Anyone care to start attempting to unpick this?

Apple thinks it has the only patent on innovation.

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Also, from that article, it talks about how palm failed to secure good contracts with carriers.. I'd be willing to bet all my iPhones that apple worked behind the scenes leveraging its power with carriers against good carrier contracts being available to palm.

I think that back-door deals between major device players and carriers are common-enough that its just chess at this point that they likely all enjoy.

Given the track-record for these companies to leverage their size to their benefit...

With that said, I'd say that a bigger failure than the palm pre was the facebook phone.

The article is kind of implying that the iOS 11 UX was designed in ~2007 so when the Pre came out Apple was annoyed that Palm copied Apple's future UX. Pretty ridiculous.

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