February 2021 General Meeting on Zoom

Summary

The February 2021 General Meeting was held on Tuesday, February 9th. The program was "Apple, AppleInsider, and you: The last two decades of Apple” by Mike Wuerthele

Speaker Bio: After a mis-spent youth in the '80s as a service tech and salesperson at a now-closed Apple dealership, AppleInsider day shift supervisor Mike Wuerthele spent nearly a decade in the US Navy 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, he assisted the US Army with its PowerMac G3 program. To end his service, he did the same thing for the assorted US Navy shipyards.

After his exit from the service, Mike spent 11 years in federal service as a 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. Following the closure of those publications in 2016, Mike moved over to AppleInsider, where he now manages the the morning and day staff.

Abstract of the talk: What Apple has done in the last 20 years can inform what it wants to do, and how it wants to get there, and AppleInsider has been through it all. Talk with AppleInsider day shift supervisor Mike Wuerthele to discuss how AppleInsider does business, picks the wheat from the chaff in a never-ending Apple news cycle, and how Apple’s past informs its future.

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