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.
In another case of the Apple Watch detecting a medical condition, an Australian man says the Watch alerted him to his elevated heart rate, leading to fast enough intervention to save his life.
Following Apple's third quarter earnings announcement, the company's stock broke the $200 per share milestone at 10:37am eastern on Tuesday morning, for the first time since Apple's stock split four years ago.
After Apple's quarterly financial announcement trounced expectations in most regards, investors and analysts have weighed in on what's next.
Apple CEO Tim Cook reveals that an extraordinarily large number of people are taking part in the company's beta program, which covers early versions of iOS, macOS and the company's other major operating systems.
Apple's services financial category jumped 31 percent year-over-year in the third fiscal quarter of 2018, its best performance ever.
Smartphone shipments in China are continuing to drop year-over-year. Not only is Apple holding on to estimated sales volume in the country, but the iPhone X and iPhone 8 Plus are both on the list of top five smartphones sold in the country.
Chinese state media outlets have been trashing Apple for failing to cut down on Messages content related to pornography and gambling.
Ken Segall, who was creative director at Chiat/Day and worked on "Think Different" and other notable Apple campaigns, questions the company's branding and advertising, and is accusing the present creative team of giving Tim Cook "vanilla" advice.
Certiport announces launch of App Development with Swift, in order to help students validate their Swift programming skills for the job market.
Ahead of earnings, GBH Insights' Daniel Ives sees 42 million iPhones sold, and no big surprises — but predicts the real story is what Apple forecasts for 2019 demand.
Autodesk has published a support document announcing that it is stopping development of its Alias and VRED vertical market packages, and that older versions will not work on Mojave due to Apple's OpenGL deprecation.
Orlando Bloom, from the "Lord of the Rings" movies, stopped a London production two different times due a theater-goer using their iPad — but one witness claimed the iPad was off and merely being used as a fan.
Samsung has extended the ad campaign slamming the iPhone X that it began earlier in July, and has released a trio of new videos that take aim at the iPhone X's notch, storage, and app presentation.
In an attempt to make it easier to design apps for the Apple Watch and Mac, Apple has updated its Human Interface Guidelines with new templates for the new operating system versions it will release in the fall.
With the quarterly earnings scheduled for this evening, most of the analysts on the Apple beat see another quarter of significant growth year-over-year for the company, for the reasons that you may expect. And, those same analysts are looking ahead to the next two quarters already.
The longtime Apple supplier has to scale back expansion after yet another bad quarter, even though it may be on tap for OLED screens for the iPhone.
Katy Huberty from Morgan Stanley has raised her iPhone sales and revenue forecast for the current quarter, while also predicting strong services growth for the foreseeable future — and has dramatically increased AAPL's price target as a result.
Based on the continued strength of iPhone sales, Guggenheim Partners has raised its Apple revenue estimates, with services revenues continuing to surge.
Apple has given a preview of the upscale location, which the company hopes to make its next globally iconic retail outlet.
The communications giant is considering either Apple or Google to serve as its provider for 5G video, according to a new report.
As Apple prepares its big move into original content, a star of "Planet of the Apps," one of its first generation of shows, has spoken out about how the company handled the marketing of that series.
Dozens of iTunes users in the Southeast Asian country report that they have lost hundreds of dollars due to charges recorded to their accounts for purchases they did not make.
Apple Stores nationwide suffer smash-and-grab thefts, and fallout from the arrest of an Apple employee caught attempting to flee to China with stolen trade secrets in AppleInsider's latest Apple crime roundup.
Going hands on with the 15-inch MacBook Pro, Apple rolling out a fourth beta release set, and loads more, this week on AppleInsider.
"Love Notes to Newton," which premieres this week, looks at the rise and quick fall of Apple's John Sculley-era personal digital assistant, and talks to both the original Newton team plus the small fanbase of enthusiasts that still remain.
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