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.
One investment firm isn't so sold on tales of disastrous iPhone order cuts, and instead, is bullish on what they see as better than expected order volume across Apple's supply chain.
Accessory manufacturer Ugreen is shifting into a new product category, and has launched a wide range of network attached storage devices with an excellent price-to-performance ratio. Unfortunately the line ships with software that is too immature to unconditionally recommend today.
Apple is expanding its self-repair program procedures, and is adding the ability for consumers to use parts pairing to fully activate used parts in repairs — assuming they haven't been harvested from stolen devices.
Apple Vision Pro is an incredible piece of hardware, but it would be nothing without apps. Here are the best apps to try for Apple's spatial computer.
Sunbird, the service that claimed to bring iMessage to Android, is back in beta as the firm vows it has fixed its legion of security issues.
Former Apple head designer Jony Ive is looking for big money from known artificial intelligence venture capitalists to build his mysterious assistant product.
A change to the App Store rules reverses a very old rule that prohibited emulators on the iPhone and iPad.
An issue preventing some external drives from mounting onto a Mac running macOS Sonoma has plagued users for months, and it probably was caused by changes Apple made to drive handling.
A leaker in China has shared what they believe to be the color lineup for the iPhone 16 Pro, with one color leaving, and a favorite returning.
Following iOS and iPadOS updates late last week, Apple has released a complementary update to macOS Sonoma with security updates and some big bug fixes.
Apple may need to navigate the business and regulatory waters in China with a local AI provider, and Baidu may have the technology it needs.
The Department of Justice's massive antitrust lawsuit against Apple is based on old information. Merrick Garland and company are going to lose big if they rely on arguments where practically every point made is no longer true.
After years of complaints by competitors, and an equally-long investigation, the long-rumored antitrust suit against Apple has finally been filed by the US Department of Justice — and it is going after nearly every part of the company.
Over four years after its debut, Apple Arcade has beaten the expectations of critics, and Apple Arcade chief Alex Rofman believes Apple's strategy for the service will continue to do so for a while longer.
If a market observer's predictions are correct, the iPad Air is slated to get OLED displays — but not for some time.
Here we go again. Four years after the last time the feds tried this, TikTok is on the cusp of an effective ban forged by a host of elected officials who know about money but dangerously know nothing about technology.
A wide-ranging essay from ex-Oculus head Hugo Barra looks at the Apple Vision Pro, and evaluates what makes it good and bad for the entire VR and AR industry.
Apple's latest update to the MacBook Air brings M3 to the consumer-oriented lineup. Sure, it's a spec-bump, but it's one that should be tremendously attractive to Intel Mac users.
Epic has committed to not violating Apple's App Store rules and DMA policies, and now both Apple and Epic Games are saying that Epic's third-party app store developer's account will be restored.
A series of renders claimed to be of the iPhone 16 Pro back up questionable claims of a Capture button, but also suggest the existing Action button will be made larger.
In a document spelling out the limitations of the third-party App Store process, Apple has made clear how long third-party app stores installed on an iPhone will continue to work when the user leaves the European Union.
After a month of developer testing, Apple has released visionOS 1.1 for all users of the new headset.
The Epic vs. Apple bad blood continues, as Apple has called Epic 'verifiably untrustworthy' and shut down the developer account it made to develop a 3rd-party app store in the European Union.
The new MacBook Air with M3 processor supports two external monitors — when the lid is closed. Here's what to expect when using Clamshell mode.
As expected, Apple has updated its Apple Watch and iPhone case roundup, offering new and bright springtime colors for both.
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