First, there is no entity called “Apple fans“.
Second, Apple messed up, yep. They made it look as if they had new technology and apparently they don’t have. If they get into a class action suit because of that, I won’t mind at all.
Third, it matters, but doesn’t make Touch ID a total failure. TouchID is apparently no match for a targeted attack, But so isn’t the PIN, especially the short one, when can be easily be memorized by an onlooker. But the vast majority of users aren’t targets for such an attack.
There remains only one issue: Police arresting you and getting to your device by using your finger or your fingerprints. Again, not a likely scenario for most users, but a valid concern for law-abding citizens who encounter police brutality and who filmed it. In that case: Turn off the TouchID before recording or turn it off, once it gets dicey.
Otherwise, it’s still a convenient safety measure protecting users from small harm, until the tech used to trick is so cheap and commonplace that a frat boy can take his drunken friend’s iphone, break the touch ID and post nude pictures on Twitter.
