After a mis-spent youth in the '80s as a service tech and salesperson at a now-closed Apple dealership, AppleInsider's Mike Wuerthele spent nearly a decade in the US Navy through the '90s as a submarine reactor chemist, where he routinely had to suffer through two Captains on the USS Hyman G Rickover (SSN-709) "borrowing" his MacWeek magazines before he got a chance to read them.
During his time in the Navy as a nuclear reactor water chemist, Mike was also instrumental in migrating the submarine fleet into the computer age, and assisted the US Army with its PowerMac G3 program. At the tail-end of his Navy service, he proposed a variant of the PowerMac G3 server program for the assorted military shipyards.
After his exit from the Navy, Mike spent 11 years in federal service as a commercial tech analyst, worked in an assortment of independent dealers, and supported a large swathe of Apple customers in the Washington DC area.
In 2012, he parlayed his experience discussing Apple and other tech companies with the federal government into a gig at MacNN and its sister site Electronista in 2012. Following the closure of those publications in July 2016, Mike moved over to AppleInsider as a content contributor. He is now the Managing Editor of AppleInsider.
Initial testing of the iOS 17.0.3 update demonstrates that Apple managed to reduce heat in the iPhone 15 without impacting performance at all.
A second remark from Ming-Chi Kuo on Wednesday suggests that he has lost visibility on the Apple Car, and isn't clear when the vehicle might go into production.
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes that weakness in Apple hardware demand through 2024 is causing a ripple effect that is reaching chip manufacturers, with orders for equipment falling by 30% in the next year.
The Chinese government has published a list of app stores in compliance with its new laws — and Apple is not on it.
Former Apple design lead Jony Ive and OpenAI chief Sam Altman are reportedly talking about a team-up to design a new piece of hardware with artificial intelligence at its core.
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes that Apple Vision Pro shipments will be limited by a few key suppliers to half what's been predicted, and an update won't arrive until 2027.
Over the weekend, a few third-party Apple vendors in China made the incredibly stupid claim that using Android USB-C cables would destroy your iPhone 15 — which quickly went viral. In actuality, the claim is bogus, and there is no danger.
As it said it would, Apple has developed an update to turn down the strength of the radio on the cellular modem on the iPhone 12, and has now submitted it to the French government for analysis.
The move to the iPhone 15 is a much larger step than the iPhone 14 was, and it is a return to form for Apple's phone for the rest of us.
YouTubers have already flocked to Australia and other territories to perform drop tests on the new iPhone 15 — but given that there is usually zero scientific rigor in the testing, they're just done for entertainment.
In a flurry of other releases on Thursday, Apple has also issued updates to macOS Ventura 13.6, iOS & iPadOS 16.7, watchOS 9.6.3, and even macOS Monterey 12.7.
Apple has taken the unusual step of releasing an update just days after a major release, with watchOS 10.0.1, iOS 17.0.1, and iPadOS 17.0.1 now available with the set again patching a trio of exploited security flaws.
Apple and Apple Card financial partner Goldman Sachs are said to have abandoned nascent plans to co-develop a stock trading app like Robin Hood for iPhones, but it's not completely clear why.
Upgraders to iOS 17 are likely seeing deeper iPhone battery drains today. This is normal behavior, and everything should stabilize within a week.
After a tumultuous period between Apple and Apple Card partner Goldman Sachs involving Apple Savings customer withdrawals, the issues appear to be mostly solved with loosened anti-fraud protections.
Data gleaned from iPhone 15 Pro 5G speed tests suggest that users will see a notable download boost, but that's still assuming that you've got good network coverage.
Apple's tech specs for both the iPhone 15 and the iPhone 15 Pro have revealed that an adapter is no longer required to connect the devices to a monitor — and that monitor can display up to 4K HDR at 60Hz.
Hidden under cover of the iPhone 15 event, Apple debuted a new version of the second generation AirPods Pro, and the earbuds are not the same internally, identical externally, and have different features.
A week after drama started surrounding a rumored iPhone sales ban in China, the country has now made an official statement denying that there is one in place — but device security may be an issue.
As expected, Apple has refuted French ministry claims that the iPhone 12 exceeds legal limits for radio frequency exposure, and will fight the sales ban.
At about the same time the iPhone 15 launched, France has declared that the iPhone 12 cannot be sold in the country, because it reportedly exceeds the country's legal limit for radio frequency exposure.
Without any context, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has declared that there may not be a M3 MacBook Air launch in October — or at all in 2023.
A new social media post has dramatically exclaimed that Apple employees will tell customers that Lightning charging cables aren't going to work with the iPhone 15. This is completely true, of course, and should be expected.
China's foreign ministry has issued a formal yet vague statement about the iPhone ban saga, which may or may not help the situation.
A report on Friday has spilled the beans on what appears to be a significant upgrade for both the Apple Watch Series 9 and the Apple Watch Ultra.
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