Danny Yadron for the WSJ:<\/p>\n
People familiar with the matter said last week that Apple will include a fingerprint scanner on the more expensive of two iPhones it is expected to unveil Tuesday at an event at its Cupertino, Calif., headquarters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
When the WSJ uses the phrase ‘people familiar with the matter’, that’s code for ‘Apple, tempering people’s expectations.’<\/p>\n
\nWhile we’re on the subject, let’s do a bit of a final round up on the Apple news in preparation for tomorrow. Firstly, charge that laptop & get that couch doona ready now; you know you’re getting kicked out of bed so you don’t wake up significant others at some stupid hour. We’ve all had that<\/em> talk.<\/p>\n
The event starts at 3AM on Wednesday morning, 11\/09\/13.<\/strong><\/p>\n
We don’t yet know if\u00a0Apple will be\u00a0doing a livestream of the event. Historically, we’d expect one, but there are no links yet… hopefully they’ll turn up tonight on the AppleTV or on Apple.com.<\/p>\n
Even if there’s a stream, I usually have a couple of liveblogs open too on the laptop next to me. This year, I’ll be looking at Ars Technica<\/a> and The Verge<\/a>\u00a0for live coverage.<\/p>\n
If you’d like a round-up of rumours & predictions before the event starts, the best ones I’ve seen have been at 9to5 Mac<\/a>, iMore<\/a>, Ars Technica<\/a>\u00a0& also The Verge<\/a>. Generally, they all agree on these basic ideas:<\/p>\n
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- iPhone ‘5S’ – fingerprint scanner, dual-LED flash, camera update, gold colour scheme<\/li>\n
- iPhone ‘5C’ – lower cost, no fingerprint scanner, plastic casing, variety of colours<\/li>\n
- iOS 7 – showing off new hardware-enabled features, last changes before release<\/li>\n
- Maybe<\/em> a new iPod touch, rest of the line untouched<\/li>\n
- No iPads, no\u00a0iWatch, no Apple television set<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Whatever comes along, we’ll be covering it here tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Danny Yadron for the WSJ: People familiar with the matter said last week that Apple will include a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[13,175,73,367,129,368],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}