{"id":21359,"date":"2018-04-28T23:15:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T03:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=21359"},"modified":"2018-07-17T13:50:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T17:50:52","slug":"buying-an-iphone-8-plus-after-using-an-iphone-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/28\/buying-an-iphone-8-plus-after-using-an-iphone-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Buying an iPhone 8 Plus After Using an iPhone X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danfrakes.com\/2018\/04\/27\/why-i-bought-an-iphone-8-plus-after-using-the-iphone-x-for-5-months\/\">Dan Frakes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/danfrakes.com\/2018\/04\/27\/why-i-bought-an-iphone-8-plus-after-using-the-iphone-x-for-5-months\/\">\n<p>App switching: It may sound crazy, but for me, this&mdash;not the screen, or Face ID, or the Animoji\/Portrait Mode selfie camera&mdash;is the very best thing about the X compared to other iPhones.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Beyond that, there are more times in my daily life when Touch ID is better than Face ID than vice versa. For example, if I need to access my phone when it&rsquo;s lying flat on my desk or the kitchen counter, or use it while it&rsquo;s in a mount in my car (when I&rsquo;m parked, natch), Face ID requires me to contort my body to get my face directly in front of the screen; with Touch ID, I just place my thumb on the Home button, regardless of the relative position of the phone. And while Touch ID doesn&rsquo;t work well with wet fingers, if there&rsquo;s moisture on the screen itself, or if I&rsquo;m wearing certain sunglasses, or if I&rsquo;ve got something partially blocking my face, Face ID usually fails. And in those situations where both Touch ID and Face ID work perfectly, Touch ID is noticeably faster.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I also prefer the 8 Plus for reading. While the 8 Plus and X show about the same amount of text, I find that the 8 Plus&rsquo;s aspect ratio makes it easier to read[&#8230;].<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>As I noted above, I love the X&rsquo;s swipe-up gesture to go to the Home screen. Unfortunately, by stealing this gesture from Control Center, Apple had to find a different way to invoke Control Center on the X. And the result, swiping down from the top-right edge of the screen, stinks.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Frakes: App switching: It may sound crazy, but for me, this&mdash;not the screen, or Face ID, or the Animoji\/Portrait Mode selfie camera&mdash;is the very best thing about the X compared to other iPhones. [&#8230;] Beyond that, there are more times in my daily life when Touch ID is better than Face ID than vice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-07-17T17:50:55Z","apple_news_api_id":"6966945e-e988-447e-b896-085a65617882","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-07-17T17:50:55Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AaWaUXumIRH64lghaZWF4gg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1704,1569,1572,31,1472,1568,1573,573],"class_list":["post-21359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-animoji","tag-control-center","tag-face-id","tag-ios","tag-ios-11","tag-iphone-8-plus","tag-iphone-x","tag-touch-id"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21360,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21359\/revisions\/21360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}