This afternoon we told you how Blomber had published an article in which he claimed that Apple had consciously reduced the reliability of Face ID with the sole objective of increasing the production rate. Due to the complex manufacturing process of the elements of the iPhone X that participate in this security system, the rate of manufacture of the iPhone was not desirable, and hence this decision.
Such an important news and that directly attacked the security system of the new iPhone X, destined to be the market reference for the next few years and responsible for such important functions as mobile payment, it could not fail to be clarified by Apple, and it has done it in the best possible way: it categorically denies it.
The answer has been published in Business Insider and it is, translated into Spanish, as follows:
Our customer's enthusiasm for iPhone X and Face ID has been incredible, and we can't wait for customers to get their hands on it starting this Friday, November 3. Face Id is a safe and very powerful, simple and very intuitive security system. The quality and accuracy of Face ID have not changed, with the probability that a random person can unlock your iPhone is only 1 in a million.
Bloomberg's claim that Apple has lowered the reliability of Face ID in order to increase manufacturing pace is completely false, and we expect Face ID to become the benchmark for facial recognition.
Apple's response could not be more forceful and it has not been long in coming. Apple does not usually manifest before these rumor-based news, but the importance of the medium where they occurred and the seriousness of the alleged news have led to this response.