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I wonder if FaceID will work underneath the OLED. Since I assume the OLED screen may distort the Dot Sensor.

So assuming this will work, wouldn't all Smartphone be looking exactly alike? I am pretty sure Xiaomi, Huawei, Vivo, Oppo, will push this to sub $400 Price point two years after it appears. Assuming this becomes available in 2021, we are talking about by 2023/2024 every smartphone on the market will very much the same.

I am going to assume Qualcomm / ARM CPU will improves up to the point CPU performance no longer matters. And everyone would be buying the same Sensor from Sony.

It will literally be Apple's value ( Privacy ), Security ( FaceID ) and Software ( iOS ) that separate between iPhone and Android. The hardware could be mostly the same. But iPhone would cost double the price.



> I am going to assume Qualcomm / ARM CPU will improves up to the point CPU performance no longer matters.

Unlikely. CPUs are hitting the limits of Moore's Law.




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