I've been using TouchID for the past few days, although I'm going to disable it before international travel. It works amazingly well. It caused me to set my unlock timeout to 1min vs. 5min.
The biggest annoyance is I keep holding my thumb on the home button on my iPad, then get disappointed when I realize it won't work. I've probably done that 20 times so far.
I really wish I could do "per context security" -- requiring multiple discrete factors based on action and threat. That would be a huge innovation for the iPhone, which would sell the next billion phones, if integrated with Internet services and apps. In my house, maybe not require anything, or just a thumbprint. In my car, same. In a coffeeshop, normal passcode after a few minutes, unless the phone has just accelerated highly, in which case a much higher passcode. At Customs in China, a passphrase held out of country. etc.
A bigger deal than Siri, if slightly less of a deal than Retina, and something a team of 2-5 people could implement before iOS 8. I'd even be willing to work at Apple to do it.
The biggest annoyance is I keep holding my thumb on the home button on my iPad, then get disappointed when I realize it won't work. I've probably done that 20 times so far.
I really wish I could do "per context security" -- requiring multiple discrete factors based on action and threat. That would be a huge innovation for the iPhone, which would sell the next billion phones, if integrated with Internet services and apps. In my house, maybe not require anything, or just a thumbprint. In my car, same. In a coffeeshop, normal passcode after a few minutes, unless the phone has just accelerated highly, in which case a much higher passcode. At Customs in China, a passphrase held out of country. etc.
A bigger deal than Siri, if slightly less of a deal than Retina, and something a team of 2-5 people could implement before iOS 8. I'd even be willing to work at Apple to do it.