Following your logic, shouldn't Apple's imitation of Motorola's fingerprint sensor have led people to be less weary as well? And relative to sophistication, Samsung's version is actually more advanced, as it is open to developers. I contend it's just an issue of increasing familiarity. When the iPhone 6 comes out, hopefully they'll leapfrog the S5 and have the best on one the market with developer options as well. If they do, my guess is that the level of worry will be even less.
An interesting aside is that with all the biometrics (heart, blood sugar, etc monitors) becoming more popular for exercise and medical applications on smartphones/wearables, it might make sense for the phone manufacturers to integrate multiple biometric security checks into one. For example, the exact heart pattern can be used as a type of identifier, akin to a fingerprint. Of course, using this data can't be as simple as having a phone like the S5 use BPM to say, "Ah ha! My owner has a 68 resting BPM... he must be using me!", but more detailed profiles could be built over time (chemical composition analysis, etc.)
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