Apple’s iPhone sales showed resilience between April and June, despite the coronavirus pandemic’s continued spread, upending lives and disrupting business across the globe. Apple, in the midst of a strong fiscal third-quarter report, signaled its success navigating the global health emergency has its limits, and that means the new iPhone will be coming later than …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. In February, Apple was one of the first companies to warn of the impact of the coronavirus on manufacturing. Now’s the company’s chance to tell us how hard the pandemic will hit the holiday shopping season, too. The iPhone maker is due to …

My mother-in-law is used to seeing me always carrying a new gadget. She was there when I strapped on my first smartwatch in 2013, and she’s seen me excitedly try out new camera lenses that attach to my phone. But it was different the time I first showed her a virtual reality headset. After she cautiously strapped the $199 Oculus Go on her head, the …

Ahead of an antitrust hearing on Capitol Hill next week, Apple is fighting back against the perception that its App Store charges onerous commission rates to developers. It hired economists from the firm Analysis Group, who said the tech giant’s fees were similar to competitors. The research, published Wednesday, collected commission rates reported on or disclosed by app stores from Amazon, …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple is releasing major new software updates in the fall for iPhones and iPads, and now you can download prerelease versions of them for a test-drive. Apple’s new iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 public betas can be installed for free on any recent …

The US Department of Commerce added 11 Chinese companies to its list of firms implicated in human rights violations, including China’s reported campaign against Muslim minority groups from an area of the country known as the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. At least one of those companies, Nanchang O-Film Tech, is listed as a supplier or undefined “partner” with nearly two …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. The tech industry often refers to Apple’s ecosystem of devices as a “walled garden,” an idyllic world of tech where each of the company’s devices work together because Apple controls intricate details of how they work. In a few months, that wall will …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Apple fans largely know what to expect from the next iPhone, from its likely new colors to its included super fast 5G wireless capabilities. What they’re not as sure of is the launch date. The iPhone maker was among the first companies to …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. People often obsess over the designs of Apple‘s products: Their smooth glass screens, the aluminum and stainless steel edges, and the colorful designs. But one of Apple’s most attention-grabbing design changes may be on the inside rather than the outside. At WWDC on Monday, …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. On June 22, Apple will kick off one of its most important events of the year, the Worldwide Developers Conference, or WWDC for short. The event will have all the pageantry we’ve come to expect from the iPhone and Mac maker: CEO Tim Cook, …