According to former Motorola Mobility CEO, Dennis Woodside, Motorola’s Nexus 6 would have featured a Touch ID-like fingerprint sensor if Apple hadn’t acquired the sensor firm Authentec in 2012. Woodside stated that his company had plans to include the feature in the Nexus 6 which was launched late last year but company had to remove the feature before launch since Apple poached “the best supplier” for the technology. He claimed that other suppliers didn’t meet the quality expectations that Motorola had been looking for at the time.
In an interview with The Telegraph, Woodside said the following:
The secret behind that is that it was supposed to be fingerprint recognition, and Apple bought the best supplier. So the second best supplier was the only one available to everyone else in the industry and they weren’t there yet. [The addition of fingerprint recognition] wouldn’t have made that big a difference.
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With the pace that Apple acquires companies who have proven to be successful, it isn’t a surprise to see people like Woodside sighing from relief when joining an industry which as of right now doesn’t have to directly compete with Apple.
Source: The Telegraph
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