We’re back! There’s not a huge amount of Apple news but some tech stuff did catch our eye. Lawmakers gonna legislate, UK Gov plans
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Category: Essential Apple Podcast
Essential Apple Podcast 249: New Year New Stuff
Happy New Year to all, and after our Holiday Break we’re back! This time the iPhone is 15, CES (sort of) happened, Apple’s top
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Essential Apple Podcast 247: Banksy’s Spraycation
This week, Amazon had a big outage creating havoc, a dangerous flaw was found in a key server tool that puts attackers one step
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Essential Apple Podcast 246: All about Apple with Peter Cohen
This week Nick is off singing carols and Jim is doing something or other, but Simon is joined by Peter Cohen (of RCR Wireless
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Essential Apple Podcast 245: Rarest Mac Accessory Ever?
We hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving and a Happy Hannuka to those who will be celebrating that… Not much news really but Nick
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Essential Apple Podcast 244: Fix it yourself?
This week Simon and Nick discuss if Apple are planning their car to launch without a steering wheel or pedals in 2025. The surprise
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Essential Apple Podcast 243: Can I do the twirling thing now?
Warren Sklar (of Mac To The Future, In Touch With iOS, and more) joins Simon and Nick to chat over the goings on this
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Essential Apple Podcast 242: I want to ride my bicycle
Apple reported record results {again) – analysts moaned (again), shares went down (again) – Nick and Simon decide to mostly ignore that and talk
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Essential Apple Podcast 241: Monterey Day
Monterey is out today (but an hour out as we recorded), Steve (from Geeks Corner and Nick join Simon to mull over a grab
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Essential Apple Podcast 240: Off the leash!
This week following the Apple Unleashed event Simon and Nick are joined by Patrice Brend’amour and her sometimes partner in crime Jeff Gamet to
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Essential Apple Podcast 239: In Touch With Essential Apple
Nick, Jim and Simon are joined by David Ginsburg of In Touch With iOS, The Mac Show and MacVoices to mull over the news
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Essential Apple Podcast 238: OMG – What the hell is that?
It’s ten years since Steve died, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp went off for 6 hours, Amazon introduce a cute privacy nightmare and more, and
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Essential Apple Podcast 237: A Fireside Chat with Nick and Simon
A slightly different sort of show this week – Jim was a bit under the weather so it is just Nick and Simon, and
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Essential Apple Podcast Bonus: Photo organisation app Mylio, with David Vaskevitch
Simon talks to David Vaskevitch (ex Microsolft CTO and CEO of photo app Mylio) – the audio has the whole of the recording, the
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Essential Apple Podcast 235: Rock Down to Electric Avenue
No Jim this week but quite a lot of news, we correctly predict that Apple might send out invitations the day after we record,
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Essential Apple Podcast 234: Apple car this year? No way!!!
Wow – loads of Apple stuff this week that isn’t about leaks and speculations around what may come in September, and Simon thought this
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Essential Apple Podcast 233: Around the Houses with Essential Apple
With the likely Apple Event(s) drawing closer and “silly season” in full swing actual news is a little thin on the ground but Simon,
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Essential Apple Podcast 232: Talking with Andy J
Simon’s Mac is still in “dry dock†having failed a second time exactly as before – apparently it shipped out from the Apple Repair
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Essential Apple Podcast 230: Yes… It’s a Happy Mac Again! :D
Annnnd IT’S BACK – yes the M1 MBA returns in all its glory. Simon is joined by Nick to talk about that, the news
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Essential Apple Podcast 229: It’s a dead Mac! :(
Yes so we didn’t record last week… sort of because it was hot and sticky (at least by UK standards), and we didn’t feel
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