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The technology posed several challenges, however, from facial recognition to 3d features. Alex len has been covering whats been going on behind closed doors and whether the tech jan will be ready to get the phone in the hands of consumers next week. Alex jones joins us right now. You have a new story out right now today were the main headline seems to be that apple, at least from where it started with facial Recognition Technology, decided to downgrade that technology in order to produce an adequate mass scale. Please clarify what i said. Technology was previously only in the microsoft connect, the large hardback book. They reduced it down to a few centimeters across and a few millimeters deep. The margin of error in that is tiny. In order to make it possible for their suppliers and component makers and assemblers, who build them into a package and are of the to the foxconns world, they had to reduce the specifications in order to ship it in the quantities needed. Emily is the Technology Going to be any different than advertised . A consumer perspective, i dont think anybody will be able to tell the difference. The difference they were talking about, one in 50,000 people could spoof your fingerprint. Face id, one in a million. From our sourcing, they cut some thehese specs off before one million figure, but the likelihood is it will be infinitely better than touch id. Emily bloomberg claim that it reduced the accuracy spec or face id is false and we expect face id to be the new Gold Standard for facial authentication. The quality and accuracy have not changed. It continues to be one in emily probability of a random person unlocking your iphone with face id. That perhaps suggest that happened before they released that number. We stand by our reporting. Have good confidence in the people we spoke to. I think this is about the tolerance of where apple potentially started versus what they will live up to when they shift. The fact is, if they live up to that one in a million, then they have not reduced it, and the consumer will never know. If there is a reliability problem, if people experience situations in the light, in ways that do not necessarily recognize it, that would be an issue. Fiona believe that is the case. Apple is standing by this technology. We have said we think they will be summer between 3 million and or million devices at launch. We have no reason to believe it will not be a successful launch. Emily marcus through hell apples facial technology is expected to work. There are three components that matter. The illuminator, which is like a torch which sees a face. It passes on the action to what they call the dot projector, which is competition of the intense. The flash is 30,000 dots at your face. The infrared camera then detects that, put that through the algorithms and recognizes this is the person that i should allow or not allowed to unlock the phone. Emily how difficult would you say is it to manufacture this kind of technology at scale . Theyre difficult. These are position products. We have heard a lot of rumor and innuendo that youll has been a problem. Manufacturing yields of 60 , 50 . Those are unacceptable when you think about a highvolume manufacture product. 90,e have to come up to the even 70 overtime. I think they will get better. This is a very expensive product, a premium price point. There is going to be followed over some of those components, when we see that in the comply chain. Emily are there other components causing issues . Alex it seems they have broken the back of oled. Well,ood projector as this inferred laser, they had some problems with that. Projectoron the dot was at 20 at one stage, 40 for the illuminate. Crawford we believe apple will ship optimistically 37 million. We are now feeling that is at the highend. Not only based on the components we are talking about today but also based on oled availability. Samsung has the absolute lion share of the screens locked up. They take a significant amount themselves. We are not willing to say all little will not be a constraint Going Forward and certainly into next year. Emily that is shipping, what about demand . Are you expecting demand to be higher than ever despite this 1000 price tag . Our expectation is there will be unsatisfied demand. This is a hot product. They will not be able to meet initial demand in q4, we dont believe. To take away,ting this is one detail of the story which apple has not been happy with. We go into great depth with the supply chain. The takeaway is they have broken the back of a lot of the problems they have had with a 3d sensors. Please read our story. There are others as well. Emily the order start on friday. You can go to the store and buy it the following friday, if you stand in line, presumably. How do you expect the demand and supply curve to unfold . Crawford i think they are going to be fairly supply constrained. Our expectation is a run for million at launch. They probably ship optimistically 37 million, probably more realistically 30 million range for q4. Our expectation is, as you get out into next year, we are looking at 50 of phones highend. 240 Million Units next year. Not all iphone x. Half of those will be the larger size, which the x will be included. Emily iphone 8 . Crawford our expectation is pretty strong. For this quarter, about 15 million. Itx one interesting idea, will be important to have the iphone x in stores. There are probably a lot of iphone 8 buyers waiting to hold a two by two saying, do i want to pay more to buy this . Emily alex webb, thank you. Crawford, always great to have you here on the show. Thank you both. Twitter, facebook, google, maybe appearing on capitol hill earlier than planned. Three have been invited to a Senate Hearing tuesday. The Senate Committee on crime and terrorism wants to discuss Russian Election interference and the use of the companys platforms by extremist groups. Top lawyers will be appearing on the hill the day after to publicly testify about russian meddling in the 2016 u. S. Elections. Leighton, tom discuss his Companies Big earnings beat. Bloomberg tech is live in streaming on twitter. This is bloomberg. We arethe stock watching, advanced micro devices, plunged more than 13 in the session. Its worth performance in five months. Shares are under pressure after the Company Reported fourthquarter revenue may drop 15 from the previous quarter. Meantime, the Company Reported a profit and sales beat in the current quarter. Bright spotlight in todays mix bag of earnings, akamai technologies, a provider of content delivery and Cloud Security posted revenue earnings that topped estimates thanks to strong video traffic from large customers. Tom layton, the ceo of akamai technologies, expanded on the companys performance earlier. I think so. People are watching a lot more video online, at Higher Quality levels get as much as thats happening, it is really the tip of the iceberg. We have 60 terabits per second last quarter. What is that . That is 12 Million People watching at reasonable quality levels. You can imagine a future world with 100 million, a billion people watching, maybe even highquality. So a lot of runway left there, i think. I was looking at analyst notes. They boasted the price tag of 270, an analyst at quarterly execution was dollar. What is it about the current Industry Environment that is coming together right now for you . In addition to media and video, there is a lot of interest in cybersecurity. You look at the headlines every week of the latest disaster. That is where we had really compelling solutions. That business for us now is half a billion in revenue and roaming in the high 20 . We just unveiled our latest technology to use Machine Learning to differentiate between thoughts and humans. Humans, when they hold a mobile phone and are tapping, have a much different dynamic than a would coming into still your identity or hack into an account to steal your money. On the enterprise side, the old notion that you have a perimeter , corporate firewall like the motor around the castle does not hold any more. Scarlet what does it look like now . We are in a world now where you cannot trust anybody, even your employees, because they are getting infected. They take their devices, they go to websites, click on the wrong link, get infections, and then come inside, import it. Once behind a firewall where youre in the corporate perimeter, it runs wild and you get these big data breaches. What other new products are you looking at, will those be the Growth Drivers next year as well . I think so. Theyre all bots, kinds, a lot of them bad but not all, a very fastgrowing product area for us. Stopping the account takeovers is important. Stopping enterprise employees from getting infected, even if they do click on it that link, so we have new products in market there that i think will sustain a lot of growth for our Cloud Security business. On the media side, not only is there more traffic because more people are watching but we just unveiled under technology where overthetop is ahead of satellite. Typically, if you watched online, you would be 10 to 90 seconds behind satellite. The touchdown had taken place, a minute later you are seeing it. Now we beat the satellite, which is very cool. That is a good the vomit from where you stand, certainly. I was noticing that you were one of the 18 ceos invited to the white house this year. You had also served on george w. Bush cost Information TechnologyAdvisory Committee as well. What do you see in terms of a continuation in commitment to monetizing and securitizing government in i. T. Infrastructure . Has that been consistent, is there followthrough . Tom the Major Tech Companies want to help the government modernize i. T. And better protect themselves, so we do a lot of work in washington to help the government. Irrespective of administration, thats really important to do. Sticking with the topic, executives from facebook, google, twitter will be capitalized testifying on capitol hill next week on russian intervention. What do you want to hear come out of that . Tom a serious concern, these are unusual times. We want to be sure the internet is used for good and not to do bad things. Privacy is another major issue right now. How do you balance law enforcements need with the need for the citizen to have privacy . Tech is right in the middle of it. It is hard for the loss to keep up. Tech is moving so fast. Think we should consider these companies a public utility as sometimes suggested . Tom its very different from a normal public utility, these are obviously very large, powerful Companies Providing a lot of great services. It is just now we are the middle of some of these issues around potentially things that do with the election being influenced by social media or manipulated news. It is really amazing what happened over the last decade. That was tom litton, ceo of akamai technologies. Coming up, will a new Pricing Strategy incentivize moviegoers . We will dig into Regal Cinemas latest test. And our interactive tv conscience, check it out, right on the bloomberg. If you miss an interview, you can go back to it, you can send our producers a message. Play along with the charts we show you on air. This is for bloomberg subscribers only. This is bloomberg. Winning overle is mobilephone customers with giveaways. The company added more than 6000 subscribers in the third quarter. Now is twice as many as sprint. It had a less than 300,000. Tmobile is a champion of charitable commerce, giving away perks like rides, Dunkin Donuts products, and Netflix Services to all subscribers. Regal Entertainment Group is testing demandbased pricing for tickets, potentially leading for higher prices for top hits and low prices for flops. This would be a major shift for an industry that typically uses a onesizefitsall approach. The company is working with an app maker which has lobbied the unit is to try dynamic pricing. Joining us now is under should securely. Explain why they are doing this. Anousha what is have frequently about the theater industry is innovation has not come to it. This is really probably one of the more conservative i would say chains taking the bull by the horns and addressing an issue that the industry is facing now, which is a very low turnout at the box office, struggling in terms of revenue this year. Especially over the summer it was very disappointing. That is reflected in their share. ,mc and regal, the two leaders seeing their share prices fall considerably this year. So when this actually mean if you go to a movie that is popular or good, the price would be higher, and a movie not doing so will would be lower . Anousha we dont know what the parameters are. When i reached out to regal for more details, they are quite reticent to give too much detail about how exactly they will do this. Whats clear, they want to make more money in quiet time, and busy times, and to use something makeapps and tickets to group bookings, make it more opportunistic when you go to the movies, and to Work Together to try and find some kind of trend in pricing that will help that, being flexible in pricing. The interesting thing is studios really do not want, by and large, to have a price put on the movie that indicates maybe it is not very good. It is sort of like a fine line. Hey will have to tread around they can maybe charge more in what they expect to be busy. But not necessarily charge less for films that people dont like. It is going to be a tricky one. Emily how do we expect studios to react to this . Anousha when i spoke to executives in private these are very tense conversations. The movie industry is at a critical juncture. Cinema and exhibitors are under pressure, as our movie studios, to address the rising trend of netflix, amazon, streaming in general, people not going to movies. They are very sensitive conversations. What ive been hearing is that studios generally dont want that kind of dynamic pricing or commoditization of movies. At the same time, theaters have to find some way of addressing the lack of attendance. Something probably in the middle will happen. Thisanalyst pointed out year, amc suggested something similar in terms of dynamic pricing. In other industries, its commonplace. Music, sports. Emily you also have a startup like movie pass that has this controversial once a month 10 if to see a movie every day you like. Do we know how that experiment is working . Anousha we know its very popular. They just upgraded the expectations for their subscriber count, increased the around how many subscribers they have, now 600,000. Whether that ends up being a business that works, we will see, but definitely there is demand for it. That is a major threat. The other major threat we are reporting on his premium videoondemand. Movie studios saying, people want movies at home sooner, so they are trying to pressure studios to release their new movies, reduced exclusivity period that is typically given to theaters eminem show them at home sooner so they can make more money. Theres a lot of different pressures and delicate negotiations going on, and testing whats possible. Shock, reporting in hollywood, thank you for joining us. 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