Apple’s iPhone 6 could feature a fingerprint scanner, if analysts have correctly interpreted the clues in a new Apple job advert.

Apple posted a job listing for a software engineer on its US site on Monday, and Apple watchers have been picking over the clues it holds for future projects and product launches. A popular theory suggests Apple is hiring a specialist to work on fingerprint sensing technology, which may appear in the iPhone 6.

莫乃光：蘋果招騁廣告揭示iPhone 6指紋識別功能

Apple fans 大反擊，大家搬定凳仔睇好戲

I remember asking the question: Are we investing in a business model, are we investing in a product or are we investing in Steve Jobs?The answer to the question was, you’re investing in Steve Jobs. Let’s go after this thing. And we went after it, and the rest is history.

– Randall Stephenson

傳聞HTC同Facebook合作，起新平台。若果屬實，基本大勢力分佈：

陣營1：Apple
陣營2：Google + Samsung
陣營3：Microsoft + Nokia
陣營4：Facebook + HTC

其餘RIM、Sony、LG… 只會繼續積弱，直至game over。

HTC, Facebook jointly developing smartphone, say sources.