William Gallagher started out in the 1980s using Macs on a UK freesheet newspaper while also working for BBC Local Radio, and writing computer manuals for McDonnell Douglas on a Mac SE/30. He wrote assembly language routines for a professional publishing app in the mid-1980s, and contributed to BBC Television's Micro Live in 1987.
Working in London as features editor on PC Direct from 1990, he wrote technology articles for Macworld UK, PC Magazine, and Computer Life. He edited Educational Computing & Technology magazine and wrote about television drama for the British Film Institute and Paramount Comedy Network's teletext service.
Moving to the BBC's teletext service in 1994, he was a freelance broadcast journalist for BBC Ceefax, then BBC Digitext, and BBC News Online. Simultaneously, he was a producer on the BBC's Radio Times website, and he wrote the Radio Times television history column On This Day for five years.
In 2005 he launched one of the earliest podcasts, UK DVD Review, which charted in the top ten of all podcasts, in all categories, around the world. The show ran for five years and was favorably reviewed on BBC News and The Sunday Times. His work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, and the UK's The Independent.
William Gallagher continues to freelance for the BBC, and makes regular contributions on BBC Local Radio stations around the country. In 2012, his first book about television drama was published by the British Film Institute, and it's been followed by 18 further titles on drama, writing, and technology. His books include four best-selling ebook titles about Mac and Apple software.
Alongside writing about technology and its uses for AppleInsider, he runs extensive workshops for writers, musicians, actors and journalists. Including his work with young writers, and roles at UK literary festivals, he's made 790 public speaking appearances since 2012.
Since January 2020, he's produced and presented over 170 weekly editions of 58keys, a YouTube podcast series for writers who use Macs, iPhones and iPads.
A quote from the CEO of Luxshare is firing up speculation that AirPods production will move to the US, but the scaffolding of the statement is too flimsy to hold the weight of the guesswork.
President Donald Trump appearing to be more open to negotiations was initially enough to see Apple's shares rise fractionally overnight, only to see the fourth trading day since the tariff announcement deliver another big hit to the stock.
While markets fluctuated insanely on rumors, the third consecutive trading day after the blockbuster tariffs announcement has again ended very badly for Apple, with it seeing billions more bled off of valuation.
Investment bank Morgan Stanley has told investors that while Apple may have brought forward some iPhone 16 production ahead of Trump's new tariffs, there is little more it can do to mitigate a $33 billion cost increase it is about to incur.
President Trump's announcement of tariffs and retaliatory measures by China has seen Apple's shares drop to their lowest point since June 2024, as investors predict rising iPhone prices and falling sales.
Apple offering a Lumon Terminal Pro from the Apple TV+ hit "Severance" is the kind of 360-degree cross-promotion that all the other streamers — except one — could only wish for.
Perhaps defying Apple's very public claim that it is using Apple Silicon servers to run Apple Intelligence, an analyst insists the company is now spending $1 billion to buy Nvidia systems as well.
A rumor from long ago may finally come true, with liquid metal hinges and bearings predicted to be used in the iPhone Fold.
Apple's iPhone processor supplier TSMC is reportedly about to announce a further $100 billion investment in the United States.
Apple is launching a series of protections for children regarding the use of age-appropriate apps in the App Store, including providing verification through a developer API.
An unknown number of Apple Watch Series 10 users are finding that the speaker volume is far too low, sometimes after months of it sounding fine.
Users are posting on social media that iOS 18 is causing their iPhone batteries to drain quickly. Historically, it's been temporary and is common with new hardware and a big OS update.
Analysts are spitballing that Apple could charge $20 per month for Apple Intelligence — but the problem is, in the short term, this isn't based on anything and is mostly wishful analyst thinking.
Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, has made an incredibly bad leap of logic and lambasted Apple for how its Find My service located his stolen MacBook, and violated the privacy of the thief.
As if we aren't already all in bubbles that reaffirm our beliefs thanks to social media, now there's an AI "Friend" who is always ready to hit you with praise and put you in a parasocial relationship with your iPhone
European Union chief Margrethe Vestager says that Apple refusing to launch Apple Intelligence or iPhone screen mirroring in the EU is a "stunning declaration" of how anti-competitive the company is.
The European Union has announced a preliminary finding that Appleis in breach of the Digital Markets Act, including how it restricts rivals, and what it charges them.
Every year Apple releases beta test versions of its newest software, and every year people lose data, time, and money to it. If you value any of those, wait.
Samsung has reportedly had difficulties adapting its production line to the two-stack OLED needed for the new iPad Pro line, which is said to be the best OLED tablet panel on the market.
Antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager still wants to favor the dominant music streaming service in the EU, and says that Apple must allow Spotify's latest iOS antisteering update immediately.
Senator Elizabeth Warren has posted a call for Apple's "stranglehold monopoly" on the smartphone market to be broken up, despite the iPhone peaking at only half the US population.
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.
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.
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.
Apple is selling developers a $300 USB-C dongle to connect the Apple Vision Pro to a Mac, but in this incarnation, it turns out to be no faster than Wi-Fi.
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