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posted by cmn32480 on Friday September 15 2017, @09:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the you-can-be-a-shithead-too dept.

The $999 iPhone X costs more than many laptops. Among the changes in store is the ability to project face movements onto emoji.

Apple's new iPhone X will allow users to do something we never dared dream would be possible with a handheld device.

It lets you take control of the poo emoji with your own face.

That's right, the animated pile of excrement, which is among the most popular methods of communication for millennials, can be controlled with the tech giant's new Face ID feature.

The fine article has an example of animoji demonstrated at an Apple conference.

Check YouTube for an example of the Face2Face algorithm — published on Mar 17, 2016 — where real-time face movement is projected onto George W. Bush, Vladimir Putin, and Donald Trump.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Friday September 15 2017, @01:52PM (4 children)

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Friday September 15 2017, @01:52PM (#568424)

    $999 is cheap; just look at how much this phone costs in Europe. Apparently a bunch of Europeans have been looking into flying to the US to buy the thing because it's so much cheaper here; they can get "free" airfare for the difference.

    Of course, they could be smart and just buy an inexpensive Android phone at home instead and save their money, but apparently there's plenty of idiots over there too (and here on this site as well; I'm sure I'll have some stupid Apple koolaid-drinker chiming in to tell me how wonderful the iPhone X is and how it's worth every penny).

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by quacking duck on Friday September 15 2017, @07:27PM

    by quacking duck (1395) on Friday September 15 2017, @07:27PM (#568645)

    Of course, they could be smart and just buy an inexpensive Android phone at home instead and save their money, but apparently there's plenty of idiots

    I wonder who the extra-special idiots are that buy the *expensive* Androids, then, like the Galaxy S8 ($720) and Note 4 ($930). After all, Android users don't have the excuse Apple users do of being locked into one company's ecosystem.

  • (Score: 2) by r1348 on Friday September 15 2017, @09:15PM (2 children)

    by r1348 (5988) on Friday September 15 2017, @09:15PM (#568705)

    European prices are higher because they already include VAT.

    • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday September 15 2017, @09:45PM (1 child)

      by Grishnakh (2831) on Friday September 15 2017, @09:45PM (#568716)

      US prices don't, but even when you apply sales tax to the US price it's still a lot cheaper, and it seems more than the difference between typical US sales tax rates (5-10%) and EU VAT rates (15%? I think).

      It's really not usual for a lot of consumer goods to cost significantly less in the US than in other industrialized nations, even after taking into account the taxing differences. Though I do wish Congress would pass a law requiring goods and services to be labeled with the after-tax prices (though this would be complicated in online sales, or places where they need to quote a pre-tax price because they don't know which state or locality you're in). They should also pass a law banning all non-state sales taxes while they're at it; that shit just complicates everything. And non-state income taxes too. And if there's some Constitutional challenge to the non-state sales tax law, then Congress should pass an alternate law banning states from collecting sales taxes across borders, just as a big F-U to the states for having ridiculously complicated taxing schemes and then insisting on online sellers thousands of miles away figuring that shit out and sending in taxes. I'd be happy to see all internet sales warehouses relocated to New Hampshire and Montana because these stupid states couldn't simplify things on their own and all these stupid localities insisted on their own sales taxes.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 15 2017, @11:51PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 15 2017, @11:51PM (#568753)

        Base VAT starts at 17%, most places are 20% or even more. Some products go with less (some food, etc) and they vary by country. 15% would be one of reduced rates in CZ.
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_value_added_tax [wikipedia.org]