Touch Id
The recent Apple announcement that its new iPhone 5S would be featuring Touch ID has given rise to a host of curious speculations across social media sites like Twitter. According to the new feature, the sensor Touch ID will unlock the iPhone only when it gets activated by the owner's fingerprint. And now many in Twitter are busy to consider how this feature is going to affect our love relationships. The new feature will obviously make it more difficult for the jealous boyfriendgirlfriend to sift through the messages of their partners in quest of the 'truth'.
In fact, a recent survey done in the UK concerning snooping habits on partner's phone reveals that 62 of the men surveyed have at some time or other peeked into their partner's phones. On the other hand, only 34 of the women surveyed admitted to committing any such thing. However, it will be somewhat immature to come to any general gender-based observation on the basis of this since half the people surveyed have also admitted that they knew their partner's passcode and that they seldom created such situation where their partner could snoop on their phone without their knowledge.
So will Touch ID be able to bring any change in the situation or will it only worsen the things? It is hard to tell from here, but the fact that the use of touch identification is an optional feature does seem to point to more future troubles. If it was a mandatory feature, the partner would have had to accept the situation and live with it. The best he or she could do under the circumstances was to request the partner to use some other device (so that she may snoop? Ha!). But as things stand now, the very fact that the user chooses to use the sensor is going to raise some eyebrows and may lead to more incriminating questions. Complicated, huh?
In fact, a recent survey done in the UK concerning snooping habits on partner's phone reveals that 62 of the men surveyed have at some time or other peeked into their partner's phones. On the other hand, only 34 of the women surveyed admitted to committing any such thing. However, it will be somewhat immature to come to any general gender-based observation on the basis of this since half the people surveyed have also admitted that they knew their partner's passcode and that they seldom created such situation where their partner could snoop on their phone without their knowledge.
So will Touch ID be able to bring any change in the situation or will it only worsen the things? It is hard to tell from here, but the fact that the use of touch identification is an optional feature does seem to point to more future troubles. If it was a mandatory feature, the partner would have had to accept the situation and live with it. The best he or she could do under the circumstances was to request the partner to use some other device (so that she may snoop? Ha!). But as things stand now, the very fact that the user chooses to use the sensor is going to raise some eyebrows and may lead to more incriminating questions. Complicated, huh?