Apple Seen Seeding Future Wearable, Payment Products in IPhone
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Apple Inc.’s new high-end iPhone gives a glimpse of future products that may be in store from the world’s most-valuable company.
A new motion-sensor chip inside the iPhone 5s lays the groundwork for wearable-computing products, while a fingerprint sensor opens more opportunities to make the smartphone a tool for making purchases at stores, according to technology analysts who study Apple. Another new processor chip in the device may give the company the chance to switch its Mac computers away from Intel Corp. chips.