The most relevant innovation with the arrival of the iPhone X, even more than its almost frameless screen, is precisely its exclusive facial recognition system that is supposedly intended to replace the touch ID on all your devices.
This three-dimensional facial recognition has tried to be imitated throughout the Mobile World Congress. Nevertheless, The latest reports indicate that the Cupertino company is two years ahead of other companies when it comes to facial recognition.
At least that is how Reuters has told it, taking into account the information it has obtained from suppliers such as Finisar Corp or Viavi Solutions. They They have the necessary material for Face ID to work at least as well as Apple's, and according to this information, it is not expected that this year the rest of the companies will be able to fully integrate this technology. It is true that others such as Samsung have already tried a two-dimensional facial scanner that is still quite far from offering the quality standard that Apple makes available to its users with the Face ID that until now is exclusive to the iPhone X while waiting for the novelties presented soon in the Keynote that has already been confirmed by Apple itself.
In fact, and also according to Reuters, the Cupertino company is planning to invest about $ 400 million in Finisar Corp, which probably integrates it within the conglomerate of companies that depend almost entirely on Apple itself. This is the mechanism that Cupertino are using to distance themselves a bit from exclusive suppliers, as is already the case with the screens that the iPhone X mounts, manufactured by Samsung, and how could it be otherwise, the South Korean firm imposes the prices that they see more convenient, limiting the production of the device in question. All this data would drive away the competition with respect to Face ID in at least two years.