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  • Laptop has keyboard, you can type your password with the same speed as pressing your finger and waiting for it to unlock.

    Most casual users won’t even know that their laptop has a fingerprint sensor.

    When a company needs a proper security, they buy every user a hardware token like Yubikey.

    But most of all, it comes down to the tradition. Manufacturers won’t add fingerprint scanner because users do not demand firgerprint scanner. Users do not demand fingerprint scanner because they are used to have no fingerprint scanner. Try removing a fingerprint scanner from a phone, you’ll see your sales drop like a brick.










  • In case of open-source projects like Fairemail, your budget is very likely zero or in negatives. Very often it’s one or few developers who make the app basically for their own daily use, and publish it on a ‘use at your own risk’ basis for everyone else. So yeah, if you use any open-source software, please do some testing work if you want it to improve.



  • Because someone in the dev team had the time to hook up their continuous integration scripts with Play Store publishing API, to the despair and jealosity of dev teams of all other apps.

    This is how software should be managed. You make a change to your software, push one extra button, and in one hour all your users receive it.

    Non-technical explanation: because they can.