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Subject: Re: Google Picel Fingerprints sensor "Yep, it's a fingerprint"
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2022 08:01:09 -0700
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On 2022-07-31 07:40, Andy Burnelli wrote:
> Lewis wrote:
> 
>> <https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/w7iza7/comment/ihlkn0z/>
> 
> Biometric sensing is nothing more or less than a MARKETING gimmick.
> 
> These iKooks fall for every MARKETING gimmick in the book.
> Why?
> a. They have no education in marketing
> b. They have a rather low IQ so they fall for gimmicks
> c. And they're _desperate_ to believe everything Apple feeds them
> 
> Does Lewis live in the slums of New York?
> Why does he feel the need for even locking his phone?
> 
> Where does he live that he's so worried someone will steal it from him?
> 
> I don't have ANY screenlock set up even as my free Android does them all.
> That's because I don't live in the slums where Lewis apparently lives.
> 
> I don't even lock my car outside or my outside doors.
> Lewis, on the other hand, lives inside a barricaded cage with iron bars.
> 
> Otherwise, what is Lewis so afraid of?

The police...

....people stealing his phone and having access to his personal data.