If I can have Touch ID on my iPad and my Mac why can't I have it on my iPhone? I'd gladly swap the "action button" (or as we call it here, the "stimulation nubbin") for a touch sensor. Hell, I'd swap 10 action buttons.
@loke@robpike I've got one like that on my Pixel phone. It feels less reliable than the dedicated one on the back of my old phone: I can't easily position my finger on it by feel, since it's just like any other part of the screen.
@jamesh@robpike the one on the neck of my old Huawei phone was amazing. Up until just now I had an S22 and you're right about the screen-based reader there. It was a bit slow. But I recently got an S24 and the reader on this one is instantaneous and seems to be very reliable so far.
@loke@robpike Mine's a Pixel 7a, so I'm not sure which of those it would be closer to.
I wonder if there is any difference in the size of the fingerprint reader area? A larger sensor would mean there's less chance of getting a partial fingerprint if you position your finger wrong.
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