Re: Do you know what works better than Face ID and Touch ID?
Something worked on Windows Phone?
Android has had face unlock for many years and it's worked pretty well, Sony demonstrated a much advanced 3d scanning tech 6 months ago,
https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/26/sony-to-demo-3d-face-biometric-running-on-xperia-smartphone/
So yes, how on earth did Apple screw up? We all know the answer, they bet on the wrong tech (under display fingerprint sensor), it didn't work out, and face unlock was the only path left open to them and they had zero time to perfect it, by the time they found out the original option was a non-starter, the rest of the hardware design was already done, and they couldn't miss the upgrade cycle/Xmas deadlines, so just shipped what they had, iPhone owners are either too stupid or too conditioned to care.