The famous Apple executive and vice president of global marketing, Phil Schiller, recently criticized the performance of facial recognition on Android devices praising, who do you think ?, the iPhone X and its Face ID.
These statements were given to the well-known Bright site, in which He stated that his rivals, at least in this section, "suck" and that iPhones have no competition in this area, but are they really the prominent kings of facial recognition? Well, from here Androidsis, we will analyze how true this is.
It should be noted, first of all, that Phil Schiller is the executive vice president of marketing or marketing worldwide of the famous American company of the bitten apple. Well, taking this into account, it is to be expected that a character of this caliber does not speak ill of the telephones that his company produces, rather, it is a somewhat patriotic comment to give dignity to his position.
In an affirmation, Phil Schiller said that the iPhone X is "The smartphone that dictates the next ten years". With that said, he was asked: "Does that apply to the entire industry or just to Apple?", to which he replied with a laugh: Oh, I'm thinking only of us. If we pick the right things and they work as expected, they will end up influencing the entire industry. Because when we do things really well, others like to copy us. "
In addition, claims iPhones' current facial recognition is much better than their old Touch ID: "Ultimately, what we're doing there is making privacy security even easier to do, so we all want to do it."says Schiller referring to the benefits of Face ID.
He also claimed that before Apple removed its Face ID, facial and iris recognition from other smart devices, they "suck," specifically saying: "They all suck".
Huawei mocks Apple's Face ID
In the past we could see that companies like Huawei, made fun of his Face ID. Moreover, they practically trolled it, showing the "simplicity" of the facial recognition of the new iPhone and, at the same time, praising the Huawei Mate 10 with its powerful Kirin 970 processor powered for artificial intelligence.
How good is the iPhone X's facial recognition?
To be realistic, the iPhone's facial recognition, Face ID, is not bad at all, but, on the other hand, it is not a big deal, being critical.
The iPhone's Face ID is not advanced enough, nor out of this world as Phil Schiller paints it. You still need the non-existence of scarves or accessories that change, in a certain way, the appearance of the face.
Although if we talk about the technology on which this function is based, it must be admitted that it is very sophisticated. According to Apple, this makes perception of up to 30.000 invisible points of the face to be able to analyze, symmetrically and asymmetrically, the facial map, the infrared image obtained, and its depth.
A part of the neural engine of the A11 Bionic chip, which is the one that has the latest iPhones, protected in Secure Enclave, transforms the depth map and the infrared image into a mathematical representation and compares it with the corresponding facial data. In this way, if everything matches correctly, the device is automatically unlocked, or, if not, it remains locked.
But well, according to the next video that you can see below, Apple technology will have to continue to be developed for true security and privacy.
Our conclusion agrees with that of the video: "The Face ID of the iPhone X is not as secure as Apple has announced."
