Googler Ian Lake comments on why fingerprint swipe gestures aren't supported on last year's Nexuses

Many Nexus 5X and 6P owners were understandably annoyed after discovering that several of the headline features announced for the new Pixel and Pixel XL would not be coming to their own devices. The Nexus line had always been synonymous to getting the latest and greatest directly from Google, and suddenly realizing that wasn't entirely true in a post-Nexus era left some users with a bad taste in their mouth.

To add insult to injury, it had recently come to light that both the Nexus 6P and the Pixel shared the exact same fingerprint sensor, triggering the habitual witch hunt on Reddit because of the former's lack of fingerprint swipe gestures.

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Googler Ian Lake comments on why fingerprint swipe gestures aren't supported on last year's Nexuses was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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