iPhone X will not have the star function copied too soon in Android phones, and this is because of a problem that is now affecting the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),. iPhone X has a multitude of innovations implemented by the Apple company, and one of them is the TrueDepth camera used for Face ID, which cannot be copied too soon by Android smartphone manufacturers in their own phones.
iPhone X uses for the TrueDepth camera a series of 3D sensors that are produced in extremely small quantities by Apple's partners, keeping the production of the phone "in place" at Foxconn. The bad part for Apple is that the iPhone X cannot be produced in large enough quantities to cover the market demand, but the good part is that even Apple's competitors will not be able to buy components for their own phones.
iPhone X has been bought by Apple company the vast majority of production for these 3D sensors dedicated to the TrueDepth camera, and its partners will not be able to deliver components to Android manufacturers until 2018. This means that phones like the Samsung Galaxy S9, and anything that will be released in the first part of 2018, they will not benefit from similar functions as Face ID in iPhone X because there will be no components for them.
iPhone X - the star function will not be copied
The iPhone X will also have very big production problems until the spring of 2018 because of these problems with the manufacturing of components for the TrueDepth camera. Xiaomi and Vivo are the first companies that have shown their intention to copy the Face ID function from the iPhone X this year, but due to the lack of components, they will not be able to offer it until mid-2018 at the earliest.
The iPhone X does not have the functions of the TrueDepth camera and for the vertical dual camera, but Android phone manufacturers want to bring them including for the main camera next year. It is not yet known what kind of new functions compared to the iPhone X the Android phone manufacturers want to implement for the main cameras with these new 3D sensors, but we will definitely find out about them at the beginning of next year.
"China smartphone vendors such as Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo are also reportedly scheduled to launch new models with 3D sensing function in the fourth quarter of 2017. But they have to delay their shipments to the first half of 2018 due to low yield rates for the modules, the sources said."
iPhone X was announced by some analysts the other day as having a technological advance of 2.5 years in front of Android phone manufacturers, but the reality is that the difference could be smaller. If the production of 3D sensors for cameras will increase sufficiently in the coming months, then the technological advance of the iPhone X would be much smaller than the one estimated by analysts at this moment.
