[One (M7) General] aliHTCDHD:
Finger print scanners will be everywhere this year. IPhone 5S/6 is already rumoured to have one and now the HTC T6 phablet will be having one hopefully annoucing it before the iPhone toutes it as a major feature. Samsung will probably copy as well. I read a post a few weeks ago on this thread that said one of the vp or execs of a banking company said in a interview we will be seeing a lot of phones with fingerprint scanners. Finger print scanners on HTC or not, the only thing that will be in a consumers head with the massive marketing campaign apple will have for their new phone is that iPhone has a fingerprint scanner and whom so release a phone after has copied. Even if HTC release it reviewers won't be overly excited but when apple release it the media will p*ss themselves with rejoice I looking at you gsm-arena aka Samsung apple fanboy.

Even if HTC do place a finger print scanner on their phone and other oems also do it what software is going to take advantage of this nothing, why because HTC don't make software only hardware. We will probably be seeing this on the lock screen and contactless payment. This is exactly were creating software and hardware together comes in handy. When apple release their finger print enabled devices all their software safari, apple store, iTunes and passbook basically every software feature can take advantage because they have control over both. Hardware features can be taken advantage of using software but only companies that make hardware and software can do this and this is why apple are praised by consumers. Apple doesn't rely on other companies they do it themselves and they do it well.

When oems make hardware they need software companies to take advantage of it which they do poorly or vice versa. When HTC release the finger print scanner they won't able to take advantage of it with softwares such as Google play, Google wallet etc because they are not Google, instead they will have to wait for Google. Hardware companies can only do so much due to them being limited to hardware but companies like apple can take advantage much better and they can build eco-systems of software and hardware like how well their computers work with their iPods or ipads but we can't say the same about hardware manufacturers do android phones work well with another device running a different operation system such as windows no they don't.

Apple make the hardware iphone-software ios-cpu A6-services itunes-store apple store themselves, hardware manufacturers on the other hand work like this hardware HTC-software android-cpu Qualcomm-services Google it's just too much relying on one another its not as simplified. I'm not saying stand alone devices like Samsung S4 or HTC one are bad, but they don't have what apple has they don't have a product they have a eco-system were products work seamlessly with one another. Even people who work at HTC, Samsung and Google openly use apple devices their just so simple and unique and hardware manufacturer's just can't provide the same experience. I know majority of you lot liking freedom love windows or android but you have to look at the big picture and see the whole line up not just one product. Look at Samsung for example they make tv's, laptops and phones but they don't work properly together something that a exec of Samsung admitted on the other hand apples devices whether it be tv, laptop or phone they work brilliantly without any effort and they make maximum profit.