An Apple user since the mid-1980s, around the time Minnesota Educational Computer Consortium (MECC) was providing computers to elementary schools, Stephen has concentrated his journalism work on technology, movies, television, politics, culture, sports, religion, and the various intersections thereof.
He worked for the Consumer Technology Publishing Group, the publisher of Dealerscope magazine and TechnologyTell, between 2007 and 2015. In 2018 he joined AppleInsider, where he writes about the shows, movies and business of Apple TV+, while also authoring the Apple crime blotter column.
Stephen is a Rotten Tomatoes-listed film critic, a co-founder of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, and a member of the Online Film Critics Society and the Pen & Pencil Club. His work has appeared in New York Press, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Tablet Magazine, RogerEbert.com, Philadelphia Weekly, The National Interest, and The Jerusalem Post.
In January of 2009, he became the first American journalist to interview both a sitting FCC chairman (Kevin Martin) and a sitting host of Jeopardy! (Alex Trebek) on the same day.
A native of Minnesota who has also lived in such other cold places as Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey, Stephen now lives in the Philadelphia area, where he has worked as a professional journalist since 2005.
Crime in the world of Apple continues with bad guys misusing AirTags in Florida, while others elsewhere use them for good. A few thousand in merchandise were stolen in California, and a disco ball was taken with an iPad in Nashville.
After two similar thefts at Apple Stores in the Los Angeles area, another has been reported. Meanwhile, a hit-and-run of a police car resulted in the discovery of a pile of stolen Macs and iPads.
A man went to the Apple Store to pick up a new MacBook Pro that he had purchased, only to find that someone else had impersonated him and grabbed it. The same thing, it turned out, had happened to someone else at a nearby Apple Store.
The state that's been the site of two of the largest Apple Store theft rings in recent years will punish retail theft more severely, while one scammer replaced an iPhone with sugar.
An SEC hack involved spoofing an iPhone, an NFL player's iPad is stolen from his car, and "porch pirates" are being caught.
In the latest Apple Crime roundup, thieves steal from a Canadian Apple Store, a man uses an AirTag to bust tool thieves, and a woman chases an iPhone thief and posts about it on TikTok.
In the latest Apple crime roundup, New York's mayor is indicted nearly a year after his Apple devices were seized, an iPhone theft ring by Amazon employees in Indiana, a new California law cracks down on smash-and-grabs like what plague Apple stores, and more!
In the latest Apple crime roundup, the owner of a North Carolina cell phone store has been sentenced to more than five years in prison, one woman tracks down thieves with an AirTag, while another is accused of stealing her children's iPhones.
In Apple-related crime, an iPhone lock screen photo leads to an arrest, a man stole phones to finance a vacation, and a tossed iPhone leads to domestic violence charges.
This week on the Apple crime roundup, a dog bites a police officer's iPhone, a football player is accused of video voyeurism over iPad videos, multiple MacBook thefts in Queens, and more!
Apple products are attractive crime targets, and their ubiquity makes them ever-present in other crimes. In this week's roundup, the mastermind of a massive iPhone theft ring has been arrested, a London man filmed and published an attempted iPhone theft, and more!
Apple has an absolutely dominant position in mobile gaming because of the ubiquity of the iPhone but a minuscule desktop market share. Apple has big plans for 2024, and we got a look at some of what's coming.
In the latest from the Apple crime blotter, thieves steal an iPhone and then threatened the owner, an iPad theft led to hit-and-run, still no reports of Apple Vision Pro crime, and AirTags are still popular with carjackers and thieves.
In this week's Apple crime roundup, a woman accused of AirPods theft sues the accusing school, there was a big iPhone theft from Verizon Store, and K9 dog's iPhone recovery may have saved a man's life.
In this week's roundup of Apple-related crime, a Man who burned down home over iPhone misunderstanding gets prison, iPhone scammers get arrested, and a man tracks his stolen AirPods Pro to Iraq.
In this week's Apple crime roundup, the Citizen app uses Apple Store theft footage in advertising, a Philadelphia Police scandal involving a smartphone app, stolen softball gear recovered thanks to AirTag, and more!
In this week's look at the Apple crime blotter, Canadian Police are looking into iPhone thefts, fraud has been alleged in third-party Apple Store pick-ups, an iPhone was stolen in a viral video, and more!
In the latest Apple Crime Blotter, NASA iPad thefts were investigated, stolen credit cards were used at an Apple Store, and iPhones were stolen from a Philadelphia AT&T Store.
In the latest Apple Crime Blotter, a significant Apple Watch theft happened at Walmart, Woz wins a round in court, and Malaysian ethics after an iPhone incident.
In the latest Apple Crime Blotter, an indicted Google engineer used Apple products to avoid suspicion, a school official is indicted for stealing iPads, and Find My helps arrest an AirPods thief.
In the latest Apple Crime Blotter, Apple Store kicks out a reporter, a tech company exec stole and sold MacBooks, and details of an iPhone scam in Iran.
In the latest Apple Crime Blotter, a viral Apple Store theft check-in, AirTag may have been used to plan a murder, and a lack of major Apple Vision Pro crimes.
In the latest Apple Crime Blotter, a dropped iPhone leads to a murder conviction, a big Apple theft in Walmart, and tracking AirPods leads to an arrest.
In the latest Apple Crime Blotter, an executive sues Apple over a stolen iPhone, a prisoner stands accused of using iPad to solicit minors, and a pig enters the Apple Store in Brazil.
In the latest Apple Crime Blotter, a Singapore intern is sentenced after breaking into an Apple office, the LAPD has a cache of Apple products, and a "crime trifecta" in San Francisco.
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