iMac versus Microsoft Surface Studio

Apple's new operating system is superficially uninteresting, but one feature is verging on life changing.

Westpac Keyboard was surprisingly banned by Apple ahead of the launch of a similar payment service on its iMessage app.

ACCC to question Apple on Westpac snub

Paul Smith

Apple's controversial decision to ban a Westpac feature that enabled payments in chat apps has attracted the attention of competition tsar Rod Sims.

That new phone feeling: You know you will want Apple's new device no matter what your higher brain tells you.

Irresistible urge for new phones ahead of iPhone 8

The experience of flirting with a new phone is so intoxicating that many will buy the new iPhone despite its eye-watering price.

The late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs holds up the iPhone in 2007. The iPhone isn't fundamentally a phone, even though ...

The iPhone turns 10 today (plus things you don't know)

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Tyler Cowen

Think the iPhone's success was all down to American genius? Think again.

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Apps are getting bigger. Snapchat, for example, now takes up 51 times more space than it did in May 2013.

Your iPhone storage isn't going as far as it used to

Hayley Tsukayama

If you feel like your storage is filling up faster than it used to, you may be on to something.

Will Apple be able to avoid the issues that sunk Google Glass?

The next iPhone could be much like Google Glass

Hayley Tsukayama

Apple will need to impress with its 10th-anniversary iPhone, and a truly innovative one would help it reclaim its mantle for innovation.

Can iPad Pro beat the Surface Pro?

The iPad Pro could be a terrific notebook alternative, but the easy stuff is missing.

Phil Schiller took to Twitter to deny the exchange ever happened.

Apple exec denies he wanted iPhone to have a keyboard

Seung Lee

Apple executive Phil Schiller was not happy when a new book on the origins of the iPhone claimed he pushed for a Blackberry-like physical keyboard on the original device.

As with the previous generation of the iPad Pro, the tablet is best when you add on its accessories. That is likely to ...

The new iPad Pro inches closer to replacing your laptop

Hayley Tsukayama

The new tablet Apple announced last week is closer than ever to overthrowing laptops, especially once iOS 11 comes better.

Some have complained that the new layout is confusing and cluttered, but it doesn't have to be: The Control Centre will ...

All the ways Apple's iOS 11 will change your iPhone

Liam Stack

Apple will soon roll out iOS 11 with a host of new features. What are they? Let's take a look.

One of Apple's suppliers, Qualcomm, sells a modem capable of the 1 gigabit download speeds. Another supplier, Intel, is ...

Apple shares fall as new iPhone is said to lag rivals

Ian King, Scott Moritz and Mark Gurman

Modems to be used in upcoming iPhones clash with carriers’ desire to show off gigabit speed.

Apple has long been rumoured to be working on a device meant to take on the Echo, which has become a surprise hit since ...

Apple HomePod: 'just know that it sounds incredible'

Brian X. Chen, Farhad Manjoo and Vindu Goel

Amazon pioneered Echo, a device that lets you play music, and control home accessories. Now Apple's version is here.

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Apple gets almost two-thirds of its revenue from the iPhone.

Apple to tout new hardware at software conference

Alex Webb

For the first time in years, Apple will use its annual developer conference to tout not just its software, but iPads and laptops too.

Sales of the Apple Watch have been hampered by the steep learning curve it requires of users, who must master pushing, ...

Are Apple devices getting too complicated?

Vindu Goel

Tech giant Apple is grappling with a major issue: Many of its existing features are too complicated for users to figure out.

Apple stands accused of improperly forcing customers to use its own costly repair services, and flouting consumer ...

Stopping Apple's dodgy car dealer act

The ACCC is jumping legal hurdles to force the tech giant to stop dodging its consumer rights obligations.

In a federal lawsuit filed in Wilmington, Delaware, USR said it sent Apple a series of letters in 2010 describing its ...

Apple, Visa face patent lawsuit over Apple Pay

Christopher Yasiejko

Apple and Visa are facing claims by a small company that their mobile-payment partnership infringes its patents.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai talks about the Google Assistant.

7 ways Google's Assistant is hobbled on Apple's iPhone

Mark Gurman

Google Assistant brings Google's AI smarts to the iPhone, but Siri is still better for Apple users.

Scott Huffman, vice president of engineering for Google Assistant, speaks during the developers conference.

Google's Assistant is coming to Apple's iPhone

Mark Gurman

Google Assistant is also adding new languages and the company says 100 million devices already support the tool.

Apple is planning three new laptops, according to people familiar with the matter. The MacBook Pro will get a faster ...

Apple said to plan laptop refresh

Mark Gurman and Alex Webb

Apple plans to announce an update to its laptop lineup at a conference for app developers amid competition from Microsoft.

Apple gets almost two-thirds of its revenue from the iPhone, compared with 39 per cent in 2010. However, those sales ...

Does Apple now make too many products?

Alex Webb

Before he became Apple's CEO, Tim Cook said all its 14 gadgets could fit on a table. That number has almost doubled.

US President Donald Trump with billionaire Peter Thiel and Apple CEO Tim Cook. Trump's newly created American Innovation ...

Trump effect: Apple invests $US1b into US manufacturing fund

Apple plans to create a $US1 billion fund to invest in US companies that perform advanced manufacturing, the iPhone maker's latest effort to show how it is creating US jobs.