What are your thoughts on the removal of touch ID on the iPhone X?

I think it’s a very aggressive move that signifies how confident Apple is in its FaceID.

TouchID was always built into the home button.
The college educated among you may have noticed that the iPhone X has no home button.
So where does TouchID go?
Nowhere.

Apple could’ve put TouchID on the back, but that would look hideous. There were some leaks with such a design. People were not happy with them. So Apple removed it.

So with no home button to squeeze TouchID into, Apple resorted to use facial recognition. However, they did it the Apple way.
Apple took facial recognition to a whole new level. They put an infrared camera, a flood illuminator, a front camera, a dot projector, a proximity sensor and an ambient light sensor on the front of the phone, and made all of them work in conjunction to provide a seamless unlocking mechanism.

Now, before you go down into the comments section and start arguing, let’s get some things out of the way. I watched the keynote, and I also watched Unbox Therapy’s video on it. I agree that the FaceID demo failed. Let’s talk about that now.

When Craig was demoing FaceID, the phone failed to recognize him twice, and he wiped his face just when it failed. Next time he did, he was recognised. Many people are concerned about it. I wouldn’t be concerned about it though. By removing TouchID, Apple is betting its reputation on Face ID’s success. Apple wouldn’t do that. Let’s not forget this was pre-release hardware.

And this wasn’t the only failed demo Apple has had. Remember the iPhone 4’s demo?
Check it out here if you haven’t.
Basically, what happens is Jobs was demoing the iPhone 4 and he was holding a speed test between it and the 3GS. He was showing us how much faster the iPhone 4 was at loading a webpage. The 3GS beat the 4.

All in all, I think the removal of TouchID is not a problem, and FaceID won’t let us miss it.