Founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, Apple is best known for making some of the world's most ubiquitous consumer devices, software, and services: the iPhone, iPad, iMac and MacBook computers, Apple TV, Apple Watch, iOS, iCloud, iTunes, Apple Music, Apple Pay, and many more. Led by CEO Tim Cook since 2011, Apple is one of the largest technology companies in the world alongside Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Facebook.
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Apple iPad Pro (2024) review: the best kind of overkill
Apple’s latest high-end tablet is a marvel of hardware design still in need of the software and accessories to really make it sing. But wow is it fun to use.
The discussion about what Apple will do next with the fourth iPhone slot in its lineup had a lot of agreement in the comments section, except it wasn’t exactly in favor of the rumored “iPhone 17 Slim.”
Whether it’s a Mini, a Mini Pro, or a Mini Thick with extra battery packed inside, the people have their eye on one iPhone format in particular.
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Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it’s not
The Apple Vision Pro is the best headset anyone’s ever made — and that’s the problem.
Everything we know about Apple’s Vision Pro
Apple’s long-rumored virtual and augmented reality headset Vision Pro headset launches in February. Here’s a timeline of all the details that have emerged about the device over the years and what we know so far.
Apple Watch ban: everything you need to know
Apple’s ability to sell the Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 in the US is in trouble due to a patent dispute — here’s all the latest news.
iPhone owners love the feature and get up in arms when automakers resist it. Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe said this week on Decoder that CarPlay can’t “leverage other parts of the vehicle experience” and takes control away from automakers.
Meanwhile, friend of The Verge, Patrick George, has the so-far unpopular opinion that while CarPlay is familiar, it’s rapidly becoming out of date.
A new Rivian or easy access to your iPhone apps from your vehicle’s console? CEO RJ Scaringe says you can’t have both.
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Apple MacBook Pro 16 M3 Max review
It’s undoubtedly fast, powerful, and earns the Pro moniker. It’ll also cost you a pretty penny.
We experimented with macOS on the iPad, and it was surprisingly good
So why won’t Apple merge macOS with its iPads?
Apple’s Sunny imagines a cozy future where screens fade into the background
The murder mystery was a chance for showrunner Katie Robbins to imagine a different kind of sci-fi vision.
Apple has released Lake Vrangla, one of two Vision Pro Environments that have spent months marked “coming soon,” and boy is it moody.
So what is Lake Vrangla? Well, it’s a small lake roughly 25 miles west (as the crow flies) of Oslo, Norway. You can see it fog-free on YouTube. Seems pretty!
I recently wrote about using Windows XP on my iPad Pro and Verge commenter cindrBear helpfully pointed out that in 2001, Microsoft announced Tablet PC.
Like with Copilot Plus PCs, the Tablet PC initiative encouraged manufacturers to make hardware for specific features — in this case, a Windows XP edition for touchscreen tablets. Seeing it in action in this video, I’m clearly using the wrong version of XP.
Cowboy Cartel, which debuts on Apple TV Plus on August 2nd, is a four-part documentary show about a rookie FBI agent who took down the leaders of the Los Zetas drug cartel by tracking their money as it was laundered through a US horse racing enterprise.
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The Apple Lisa was a design revolution — and it still feels like one today
The Lisa helped create the design language for computers as we know them. Here’s what it’s like to use one.
Apple Music Classical now has a Top 100 chart. A collection of keyboard concertos composed by Johann Sebastian Bach is at number one, followed by recordings of Johannes Brahms-composed symphonies.
Apple updates placement on Mondays, using data from Apple Music / Music Classical, iTunes, and Shazam, according to MacRumors.
Gadgets are getting weird — and so are iPhone homescreens
On The Vergecast: Trump, Apple betas, and a round of ‘is this anything?’