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 Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 ban will start again on January 18 at 5 PM ET, and will remain banned until the appeal has concluded.
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Apple generated over five times more profit from South Korea in its fiscal year ending September 2023 than it did the year before, from roughly the same net sales as the last two years.
After less than a year of operation there appears to be no profitable way forward for AI news aggregator Artifact, and the service will close completely in the end of February.
New York was the first US state to pass a Right to Repair bill, which is now law, but it's so weak and watered down, it is effectively worthless for consumers.
Now that 2024 has arrived, the Competition and Markets Authority that will be responsible for big tech antitrust decisions in the UK has made it clear that when it is fully empowered it will immediately launch several investigations against US big tech.
While there are conflicting reports about exactly how many Apple Vision Pro units Apple will have available at launch, Ming-Chi Kuo thinks that the number will be smaller than previously predicted.
In intraday trading on Thursday, Apple was usurped as the most valuable company in the US for about two hours, with Microsoft temporarily taking the crown more than two years after the last time it happened.
After a public disclosure in December, Apple has issued a firmware update for the Magic Keyboard to block a security flaw that allowed an attacker to enter keystrokes through a cloned keyboard connection.
A new report said to be from Apple's supply chain claims that the OLED iPad Pro will be massively more expensive than the existing models, solely for advantages from the OLED screen.
A new report claims that the US Department of Justice is in the "late stages" of investigating Apple and a wide-ranging complaint will be filed soon, but how — or if — it will all play out isn't actually clear.
Exiting a successful theatrical run, and a period of digital rental availability, Apple has announced a streaming date for "Killers of the Flower Moon" — and it is soon.
There are spotty reports that back-glass coating is peeling off some iPhone 15 units — but the actual issue is slightly less dramatic than that. Here's what to do if you see it on yours.
Apple has been dealt another blow to its stock price, as analysts at Piper Sandler have downgraded AAPL to "neutral" over concerns of handset and macro weakness in 2024.
Just before the CES festivities kick off, Dell has rolled out a pair of large-format curved displays, with one running at 5K and 120Hz off a single Thunderbolt cable.
As part of a longer post about tech trends in 2024, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has predicted that the Apple Vision Pro will start shipping to Apple in early January, with a new Mac event happening near the end of the year.
After Google pointed fingers at Apple for not having its contributions to a Bluetooth tracker misuse standard ready in July 2023, the spec has just seen an update and Apple's fingerprints are all over it.
After a few months of quiet about the subject, and an explicit denial by China regulators in September, there are new reports circulating that China's ban on the iPhone is back on — and expanding.
A report out of the supply chain is again trying to pin down the release time frame of a micro LED Apple Watch, with analysts now guessing at a 2026 arrival.
In what may be the largest expansion of Apple's Self Service Repair program yet, the company has expanded device support to the iPhone 15 and M2 Apple Silicon, and is launching a new tool to help users diagnose and repair their devices.
A new report claims that Apple has offered to open up iPhone near-field communication central to Apple Pay to other payment services, to fight off antitrust claims in the EU.
Just days after announcement, the Beeper app that (briefly) allowed for native iMessage communication on Android isn't working, and it appears that Apple already found a way to kill it.
Developers can now try out the the second release candidate of tvOS 17.2, as the current beta cycle process starts to wind down.
American Express may be in the minds of analysts as an Apple Card lender replacement, but the company's CEO doesn't seem that excited about the prospect.
Apple's second release candidate for macOS Sonoma 14.2 has been issued to test participants, just a few days after the last update.
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