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.
The hearing on big tech antitrust matters on Wednesday was an embarrassment, and not a single governmental official there had the ability, will, or both, to bring any of the CEOs on hand to task.
To commemorate International Friendship Day, OtterBox has partnered with Disney for a series of iPhone cases featuring Disney's iconic characters.
Secure messaging platform Telegram has become the third big developer to file an antitrust complaint against Apple in the European Union, railing against Apple's control and fees on the App Store.
With wins for "Ghostwriter" and "Peanuts in Space: Secrets of Apollo 10," Apple TV+ has become the first streaming video service to win a Daytime Emmy Award in the first year of availability.
A pair of images popped up on Chinese social media, with the poster alleging that they are pre-assembly pieces for the smallest iPhone said to be in the "iPhone 12" lineup.
Apple is donating its share of earnings from documentary film "John Lewis: Good Trouble" to the National Civil Rights Museum and National Museum of African American History and Culture.
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Apple Distinguished Educator program, Apple is highlighting the work of Dr. Carl Owens, a long-time participant in the program.
A new supplier has reportedly entered Apple's supply chain, with the company providing "super-thin" circuitboards vital to the mini LED backlight technology said to be coming to a wide array of Apple products soon.
A prolific leaker has shared photos of what they believe to be the USB-C to Lightning cable that will ship with at least some models of the "iPhone 12" in both black and white versions.
A year after announcing the Security Research Device Program, Apple has started accepting applications for special iPhones for security researchers to use to suss out bugs and exploits.
Apple is shooting for total carbon neutrality across all of its business aspects 20 years sooner than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change targets are aiming for.
Apple has added 10 more Historically Black Colleges and Universities regional coding centers to its Community Education Initiative to bring coding, creativity, and workforce development opportunities to learners of all ages.
Apple's main chip foundry TSMC has hiked its financial outlook for 2021 on the strength of new Macs, with the first Apple Silicon expected to ship in the MacBook Air in late 2020.
Apple has landed another big feature for Apple TV+ with the acquisition of "Palmer," starring Justin Timberlake.
Apple has introduced audio versions of select feature stories from Apple News+, a daily audio news briefing hosted by Apple News editors, and the beginning of curated local news collections in select areas.
On Monday morning, Apple announced eight developers for its annual Apple Design Awards, spanning both larger companies and independent developers.
Citing changes in the retail landscape, the coronavirus, and changes in its own revenue model, Microsoft has announced that it will permanently shutter all of its retail venues.
A prolific Android leaker has chimed in on the "iPhone 12 Pro" and is expecting at least some of the new models to have a 120Hz ProMotion display.
Long-time Mac upgrade vendor OWC has released the Envoy Express — a bus-powered, Thunderbolt certified enclosure for M.2 SSDs, at an affordable price.
During Apple's state of the platform presentation at the WWDC, Apple's engineers have explicitly said that it will be up to the developer if an iPad or iPhone app appears in the App Store for Apple Silicon Macs.
The ability to play back YouTube content in 4K on the Apple TV is restored in tvOS 14, after three years of the Apple TV being stuck at 1080p from the streaming service.
Apple brings a giant list of improvements to the iPhone camera in iOS 14, with features coming to the main Camera app previously reserved for pro-level apps.
In a "historic day," Apple CEO Tim Cook announced a shift to Apple Silicon, with technologies in place to run existing Intel apps with Rosetta 2.
Ming-Chi Kuo believes that a new "AirPods 3" will arrive in the first half of 2021, kickstarting fresh demand for Apple's wireless earbuds.
According to Chinese social media posts, macOS 10.16 will be called "Big Sur," and both it and iOS 14 will see big user interface redesigns.
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