Apple Ruined Google's Plan For a Fingerprint Scanner in Nexus 6

Blame Apple because it bought the best fingerprint scanner in the industry and the plan to include fingerprint scanner in Nexus 6 had to be scrapped.

Authentec - the company behind Touch ID - was acquired by Apple, which is considered as the best biometric sensor maker in the business.

"The secret behind that is that it was supposed to be fingerprint recognition, and Apple bought the best supplier," former Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside told The Telegraph. "So the second best supplier was the only one available to everyone else in the industry and they weren't there yet."

Had Motorola been able to use Authentec's technology, the Nexus 6 would have had a fingerprint scanner on its back in the dimple where the Motorola logo now sits, CultofMac reported.

Earlier it was reported that Google's Lollipop software had a "a whole setup for reading fingerprints." A Google changelog for the Nexus 6, which was filed way back in August, confirms that support for the handset's fingerprint scanner was dropped early on, CultofMac added.

However, Woodside added that the addition of fingerprint recognition "wouldn't have made that big a difference."