HT6065 Why has Apple not fixed Mavericks breaking AuthenTec USB Fingerprint readers?
Apple bought AuthenTec and shut it down to gain the technology for the iPhone. Later, they released Mavericks and broke the drivers that allow AuthenTec Eikon Fingerprint readers on Macs, despite having ample resources and time to do so.
Do the right thing and fix the driver or the OS- no other entity can do so.
I can help with the "IR Receiver" part of your question. That's the piece of hardware inside older MacBook Pros (MBPs) that lets them work with the Apple Remote. "IR" is the standard abbreviation for "infrared," the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum used by remotes for many common devices (stereos, cable boxes, Apple TVs, etc.). The remote sends a coded stream of IR pulses; a corresponding receiver in the target device "sees" the infrared light and decodes it. The MBP's internal IR Receiver sends the received signals to the processor via USB through an internal hub.
The most recent MacBook Pros have dropped the IR receiver and no longer work with the Apple Remote.
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