You say that in jest, but that is actually how this process works. Remember when touchID came out and many people mockingly thanked Apple for not having to enter 4-6 digits? Now how many people get pissed off when their wet thumb doesn’t read right and they have to enter their pin?

People get used to new luxuries.

I’m wondering if I’m not the only person who’s not locking his smart-phone. At the same time I’m also making sure to never leave it out of sight and I have no Internet banking. I also have my WiFi network at home open, have had it for more than 10 years now.

That’s going to be fun when someone decides to use your connection to make a bomb thread, or worse, upload copyrighted content.

We don’t have that many bomb-threats in the country I live in and fortunately the big media companies haven’t yet got the local authorities by the balls when it comes to copyright infringement. Agreed, had I lived in a country like Germany I might have done differently.

I never used to lock my phone, but with fingerprint unlock the effort went away and so left it on.

At least apple’s implementation of it is so flawed it seems to require me to retry at least once >50% of the time.

Their face recognition however is amazing and works even in shitty conditions (such as dim light).

That seems unnecessarily risky to me.

It makes me not put on my phone things that I consider sensitive, like any of my CC details (the Apple account is connected to a spare debit card which hasn’t had any funds on it for quite some time), no sexting, no nude photos etc. I consider that a positive (and that’s why I thought a guy like Bezos would have been smarter than he really was, you cannot trust any electronic security thing when there’s literally a picture of your genital parts involved). On the other hand I’ve encountered lots of security-obsessed people here in HN who have given their fingerprints or, even worse, their face details to Apple on the premises of making their life more secure. I find that incredibly stupid.

Ya I just buy a new one when my current one runs out of juice.

There is a story from my home town Vienna that a certain celebrity would come to the phone shop ever 2 weeks buying a new battery. That continued for a few months until some clerk asked her what she did with all of those and she was thus introduced to charging.

I know what you are thinking now. The battery lasted 2 weeks!!!

Obviously an older story since I don't know of any recent phones with removable batteries. The modern version would be, of course, "...a certain celebrity would come to the phone shop ever 2 weeks buying a new phone..."

What I'm thinking is : why so much time before the shop workers asked about the batteries ?