That's actually completely inaccurate.
Well, yes, if you want to bring "facts" to a "truthiness" fight.
Actually, Colbert-accuracy standards aside, iPhone people will buy iPhones. Re fingerprint-reading, I've seen *some* of the technical discussion about the on-phone, encrypted, hash-only fingerprint validator, and remain unconvinced that it would be impossible to gather and upload either a reversible hash or some other encoded version of users' fingerprints.
We know that Apple is under a FISA order for
something, and that they have made the mildest of public objections (compared to Google, Yahoo, and even Microsoft for heaven's sake!) So there is no way to know yet if the phone can or does provide fingerprint info as metadata, nor even if FISA considers fingerprints protected "content" or unprotected "other information".
Even assuming that the 5s is a righteous piece of utterly benign technology, now is an unfortunate time to bring to market a piece of technology most commonly associated with law enforcement.
But ArsTechnica or EFF or someone will have these into an RF testing enclosure and try to find out what, exactly, is going in and out. Remember the key-logger that was "only for trouble-shooting"? That was a surprise, eh?
TL;DR: My first reply was mostly a joke. My concern about the fingerprint reader is that it may turn out not to be a joke at all.
- Ron | samwisekoi
p.s. Pro tip: A post actually containing a satirical comic may very well be satirical itself.