Why Did Apple Acquire Facial Recognition Company RealFace?

A worker demonstrated facial recognition security features on the MasterCard Inc. stand at the Mobile World Congress in this arranged photograph in Barcelona, Spain, on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016. Why did Apple acquire RealFace the AI facial recognition company? Why did Apple acquire RealFace the AI facial recognition company? There are many reasons, however the biggest reason may be the one few see today. Today it was announced [1] Apple acquired the Israeli facial recognition AI company Real Face.