Apple unveils a new iPhone. What really makes it special? The computer chips inside.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan wants to pull his people away from American-made smartphones and push them toward products from homegrown company Vestel. That could prove difficult, once you take a closer look at what comprises Vestel's phones.

What does that mean? Data collection, privacy settings and software updates ... for a car.

Yes, it's that thing people are talking about on Twitter.

The country is important to Apple's growth.

It's forced companies to adapt to the idea of handheld computers and given others a reason to exist.

Brian Merchant has the backstory on the iPhone's creation in his new book, "The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone"