The phones weren’t the batteries were
A distinction which I think was lost on people who ended up with a device on fire in their hands or pockets! 
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The attention aware aspect of Face ID works really really well for me.
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One problem I foresee with it, as the same issue arises for me using fingerprint unlocking, is that when that once in a blue moon you have to use your pin to unlock your phone you can’t bloody remember it!
Indeed. I make my password manager force a password entry every couple of days to ensure I don’t forget the master password!
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Aye, if I ever did forget my master password I’m done for!
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I believe it is true to say that police forces in UK and Japan, where they have used facial recognition software in crime fighting and boarder survalience, have found too many false positives for it to be a definitive means of prooving ID. It has also been demonstrated by IT specialists that an image can be manipulated and used to defraud in a similar way that Touch ID was by German researchers within about 18 hours of Apple’s public release. In short no one means of establishing bona fides is sufficient and the more convenient the method the less secure it is.
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You are comparing 2D distant camera face recognition with the real-time scanner based face recognition on the iPhone X. They are worlds apart. Apple even had prosthetic experts attempt to make copies of peoples’ faces and they were correctly rejected by the scanner.
Even 2D is fine to allow me into the country…
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If the fella who pick pockets my phone at a concert has to 3d print a mask to get into it to steal my details, I’d feel OK using facial recognition I think.
The exact same happened with fingerprints when they were first happening in the phone market.
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They could easily have trained it on the mask.
Inconclusive.
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Just sayin’
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Another interesting crack: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/technology-41992610/face-id-iphone-x-hack-demoed-live-with-mask-by-bkav
Did Android ever have issues with this back in 2011?
Was Android as clickbaity enough, in 2011, for online advertising as any story that mentions Apple in any way at all?
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Not entirely sure what you mean?! 
"The demo took place about a week after Bkav first claimed to have undermined the handset’s security.
But other experts have cast doubt on what the “hack” amounts to."
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