It’s hard to imagine a world without smartphones, but when Apple launched the first iPhone in 2007 , it was no guaranteed success. In fact, a smorgasbord of haters was predicting it would fail badly. Oops. The CNET Group brands — CNET, Lifehacker, Mashable, PCMag, Popular Science and ZDNET — have been covering Apple news and product releases for combined centuries. We were there when Apple announced the MacBook switch to Intel chips in 2005 and when Tim Cook first introduced the Apple Watch as “one more thing” back in April 2015. As Apple prepares more groundbreaking announcements for its Sept
