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Apple Crushes Expectations, Sees Record Holiday Quarter (axios.com)
Apple on Thursday reported sales and earnings well ahead of projections, and said holiday sales should be a record and ahead of many analysts' expectations. The company sold 46.6 million iPhones last quarter, which came in about 500,000 units ahead of expectations. Axios reports: Going into the earnings report, there were concerns about both iPhone 8 demand and iPhone X supply. Thursday's report should go a long way toward answering those questions. Sales were up in every region expect Japan, where business was down from the prior year, though up sequentially. Notably, the company finally saw a much-needed turnaround in Greater China, where sales of $9.8 billion were up 22% from the prior quarter and 12% from a year ago. The company's business has been weak in China for some time, though the company had predicted improvement this quarter. Apple reported $52.6 billion in revenue (vs $51.2 billion estimated) and per-share earnings of $2.02 (vs $1.87 estimated). In addition to the 46.6 million iPhones sold (vs 46.1 million estimated), the company sold 10.3 million iPads (vs about 10 million expected) and 5.4 million Macs (vs about 5 million expected).
Actually the FaceID data isn't even 30k dots x face scans.
Those raw measurements are immediately aggregated and shoved through a huge pile of logic (developed via machine-learning techniques) to get a series of completely different values that are then given to another huge pile of logic with some machine-learning based feedback systems to authenticate your current face plus a weird range of drift around it. It is utterly impossible to take those values and deconvolute them into a face.
Hackers may as well try to reconstruct an image of your face based on an audio recording of your fart.
The only? Google won't sell your data either. It's their most valuable asset. They've perfected the business model of selling access to you while keeping your data treasured to themselves.
You get paid to shit spam that out, eh?
The latest news is that third parties can nab face scan data on the new Iphone x. Customers are 'protected' by giving consent a fine print click-thu on their game (everybody they know is playing it).
It doesn't matter what brand phone you use. If your privacy matters you radically limit the info you put on it.
What Apps can access, as explained by Craig Federighi, is a LOW-RESOLUTION "motion mask"-view of the Face as tracked in real-time, and as demonstrated by Federighi during the iPhone X demo. Neither 3rd Parties, NOR APPLE, have access to the high-resolution FaceID information. It lives SOLELY in the Secure Enclave chip, ON-DEVICE.
And guess what? Even THAT is a "cooked-down" (essentially a "hashed") version of the raw camera data.
See:
https://images.apple.com/busin...