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iPhone X Diary: First impressions from the keynote don’t wow me, but do impress

<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/apple-iphone-x-2017-iphone-x_13.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600&h=900)</div><p>Yesterday’s keynote was not without its challenges for Apple. First, thanks to our <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2017/09/08/ios-11-gm-wallpapers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">digging into the leaked code[/url], there were few surprises.</p>
<p>Second, there was the fact that Apple had to kick-off with the understudy. The <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/iphone-8/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">iPhone 8[/url] – for all the features it borrowed from the <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/iphone-x/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">iPhone X[/url] – looked very much like the iPhone 7, which itself looked very much like the iPhone 6. It was hard to make an iPhone 6sss seem too exciting – especially when everyone was waiting for the main act.</p>
<p>And then there was the failed <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/face-id/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Face ID[/url] demo. The flagship iPhone X feature falling over the first time it was demonstrated. Update: This was because other people were handling it prior to the demo, and the phone was trying to match their face and treating it as a login attempt. After several failed attempts, it fell back to requiring the passcode, as it’s designed to to.</p>
<p>But for my part, the keynote didn’t have much of a job to do …</p>
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