Originally Posted by jchamier:
“The other problem is the sensor that Apple uses is only made by Authentec, and Apple bought the entire company. So Samsung has to use alternative sensors which work in a different way (e.g. needs a swipe, rather than hold). And Samsung doesn't have the CPU design teams that Apple purchased a few years ago, so doesn't have the expertise to build low level hardware support for the sensor. So the Samsung sensor runs in software, and thus can be more easily hacked by applications running on the OS. This is why corporates are very wary of the Samsung and HTC fingerprint options.”
Apple does have a good relationship with ARM, I'll give you that.
But even if Samsung can't do TouchID as well as Apple, they could at least try a little bit harder. They add a load of features that don't appear to be tested.
As a programmer some of the crap that Samsung put in their products amazes me, it's like they didn't even do alpha testing. For example, the translations from Korean to English. When the translations don't make sense, it doesn't give much confidence in the rest of the product.