Good vs. Gold: What the iPhone 5S Rumors Say About Apple's Future

For those keeping score, we now have two major rumors about the iPhone 5S, the phone that Apple seems all but certain to launch on Sept. 10 alongside a cheaper model, the iPhone 5c. And it just so happens that these two rumors represent the two major, wildly different directions Apple finds itself pulled in as a company

Put simply, it's a choice between more cool stuff under the hood, versus more cool stuff on the surface

On one side, there's the company's ongoing quest for innovation. This is represented by the rumor that the iPhone 5S will come with a biometric fingerprint scanner, either on or just beneath the home button. It's not just analyst speculation: the beta version of iOS 7, which the iPhone 5S will run, includes a folder called "BiometricKitUI." Read more...