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Apple CEO Tim Cook, senior execs to testify at Epic Fortnite trial

Apple plans to call some of its highest profile executives to testify as part of its upcoming trial with Fortnite maker Epic Games. Apple said it plans to call its CEO, Tim Cook, software head Craig Federighi, and Apple fellow Phil Schiller, as well as employees who help combat fraud, manage payment processing and those who …

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Apple Maps gets a makeover

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple Maps is getting a new look. Apple on Monday unveiled a more detailed Maps app that the company said will roll out to US users by the end of 2019 and to more countries by 2020. The company also has added new features that …

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Apple started making iPad because Jobs ‘hated’ a Microsoft exec

Now playing: Watch this: iPhone origin story: ‘Because Steve hated this guy at… 3:03 The iPhone might never have existed if Apple co-founder Steve Jobs didn’t “hate” an executive at Microsoft.  Scott Forstall, the former head of Apple’s software business and the man who created iOS for the first iPhone, on Tuesday said Jobs couldn’t stand an executive at Microsoft …

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Not even Apple’s first iPhone engineers knew all it could do

How secretive was Apple about the first iPhone? Engineers working on the project didn’t even know what it really could do.  When building the first iPhone leading up to its release in 2007, Apple put together a group of engineers and designers tasked with working on the top-secret project. Hardware engineers didn’t even know what the software could do, and …

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Apple engineer: We wanted to make a phone for ‘normal people’

Greg Christie is one of the inventors of Apple’s slide-to-unlock iPhone feature. CNET SAN JOSE, Calif. — Apple took great pains to make its first iPhone as simple as possible, a company engineer told a court here, as Apple sought to add weight to its patent infringement suit against Samsung. A key argument for Apple throughout its various trials involving …

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