That's a strange thing to say. There are clearly areas where TouchId is better than FaceID (try unlocking your phone while wearing a face mask when skiing), and vice versa. Also FaceID does "miss" sometimes, probably more than TouchID since touchID is mature and faceID isn't. These are objective statements that contradict your absolutist position.
If you are skiing in a mask, aren't you wearing gloves too? So you either have to remove your ski mask for FaceID, or your glove for TouchID. Perhaps removing a glove is easier in that situation, but most of us wear gloves far more often than we wear masks.
There are clearly areas where TouchID is better, but you can turn that around and say there are clearly areas where FaceID is better. Both options have their limitations, but overall I don't find one to be more reliable than the other. I use both all day every day (iPhone X and iPad Pro), and personally I find FaceID to be more convenient and seamless. For example: Every time I launch a secure app on my iPad, it takes me a beat to remember I have to touch the home button with my thumb. I'm so used to secure apps just opening without me having to do anything (because FaceID), not to mention the gestures, that the home button and TouchID just feel cumbersome to me now.
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So i got an iphone x very cheap.... i got it for 750 brand new unlocked i got lucky i guess, I went from the iphone 7 to the x, but I am really missing how fast and easy touch id was, i would say face id works 70 percent of the time but i have to work around the phone.... also is not that small andI do not think the screen looks that much better ..... Im thinking about getting the iphone 8 but it looks the same as the iphone6,6s,7,lol im just in a weird place, why couldn't apple just put touch id on the back logo imagine that. Im i crazy for thinking this way?
You might want to give it some time, and consider why FaceID isn't work for you when it fails. Is it because your face is half obscured by a pillow? Are you looking at your phone from a significant angle? If it's just not recognizing you with glasses or some other minor change, just enter your passcode. The machine learning will add the information to the FaceID database and it will improve (Every time you reset FaceID you are wiping out that history). After the first week or so mine started to recognize me with or without glasses/sunglasses and with/without hats or a bike helmet. I alternate between FaceID and TouchID all day (iPhone X and iPad Pro). In my experience they both work equally well, but they both have their limitations. In my opinion FaceID feels more convenient, faster, seamless, fluid... especially combined with the gesture driven interface rather than the home button.
The iPhone 8 is a nice phone, and I agree that the iPhone X display isn't significantly better, or it's not better in ways that matter to most people. The displays on the 6/7/8 have some advantages over OLED as well, so it's not a case where one type of display is clearly better than the other. Going between my iPhone X and my iPad Pro, I don't notice that one looks better than the other. I just notice when one has more finger smudges than the other and I'm reminded to clean all my screens.
The big advantage of the iPhone X for me is the camera system. The iPhone 8 Plus is almost as good in this regard (the iPhone X has a slight edge that will only matter in a few situations... if it matters at all). The 8 Plus is just too big for me, so I value the X because I get dual cameras in a smaller iPhone.
The reason I say give it some time is because I believe FaceID negativity is mostly due to the fact that people aren't used to it. They are so used to TouchID that they now overlook its flaws, and they've learned to modify their behavior to avoid TouchID pitfalls. It doesn't take long to learn to avoid the FaceID pitfalls. Another reason people are hard on FaceID is because it's less noticeable when it works and that makes it more noticeable when it doesn't.
