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.
Apple's high-end Mac Studio brings phenomenal power in a very small enclosure. It is very clearly not for everybody, but every Mac user should be excited about what it portends for the very-near future.
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Google has announced the dates for its annual Google I/O developer conference and it will be totally virtual and free to watch online.
Another Chinese national has been sentenced his role in a scheme to defraud Apple out of more than $1 million with counterfeit iPhones.
After several months of testing, Google Messages users on Android are now able to see emoji that iPhone users send.
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After a complaint by a consumer group in September, The India Competition Commission has formally ordered a probe looking into Apple's App Store payment system, commissions, and more.
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Apple has released a Beats Studio Buds emblazoned with Year of the Tiger imagery, alongside a limited edition AirTag in Japan.
Amidst the COVID-19 surge, Apple has reduced operations in all of its New York City stores and is limiting services to customers.
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