This story is part of Focal Point iPhone 2022, CNET’s collection of news, tips and advice around Apple’s most popular product. We all knew it was coming. Reporters, analysts, industry insiders and fans had been speculating about Apple making a phone for nearly a year by the time Steve Jobs walked onto the Macworld Expo …

Not so long ago, Magic Leap was one of the tech industry’s most notorious, secretive and overhyped unicorns, a startup with high-profile backers whose mission to redefine “a person plus computer” earned it a valuation over $1 billion before it had shipped a single product.  After eight years crafting its origin story, and with a few glitzy canned demos teasing …

This is what I remember: There was a line to get into Apple’s headquarters to see Steve Jobs.  That wasn’t all that unusual. Apple’s CEO was the closest thing the tech industry had to a rock star. Like him or not, he was a charismatic and persuasive presenter who could make even the most mundane tech sound like it was …

Now playing: Watch this: That time Michael Dell almost had his PC company taken… 16:03 Michael Dell begins his new book with a story about a mediocre meat loaf dinner with the man who turned out to be one of his greatest business foes. The year was 2013, and Dell had convinced the board of the PC maker he started …

In the decade since Steve Jobs passed away, on Oct. 5, 2011, the iPhone, Mac and iPad have helped turn Apple into one of the most valuable companies on the planet, with over a billion people now making Apple’s technology part of their daily lives.  It’s a big change from 1997 when, after returning as interim CEO to an Apple …

If 2020 has only taught us one thing, it’s just how important digital technology is to our lives. From the computers, smartphones and tablets we use to create and consume content and communicate with each other, to the routers, monitors, cameras and nuts-and-bolts gear that make our digital ecosystems work, we relied on tech to stay connected even as we …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. If you’ve ever wondered how quickly 5,000 seats in a convention center auditorium can fill up, Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is a good gauge. I can say from personal experience that the running crowd of enthusiastic Apple fans, some of whom have literally …

As part of CNET’s job chronicling the best tech released every year, our team of expert reviewers spends time trying out dozens of the top products in consumer technology — everything from smartphones to Wi-Fi routers to gaming systems to TVs and wearable devices. That often means putting them through a variety of tests in our labs to see if …

“Apple builds things that people want to buy.” Seems like an obvious sentiment, coming from the executive who leads software development at one of the world’s most successful tech companies.  But that comment underscores why Craig Federighi spent so much time highlighting new privacy features in the operating systems that power the iPhone, iPad and Mac at the start of …

Two years ago, Apple targeted the left side of kids’ brains with Everyone Can Code. Now it’s turned its attention to the right side with its new Everyone Can Create program that launches Monday. With Everyone Can Code in 2016, Apple called out coding as an “essential skill.” It started delivering learning guides and tools to help students from kindergarten to college …