Recorded 28th July 2019 This week Apple spent $1Bn to acquire most of Intel’s modem business, Facebook got their $5Bn fine (but with an
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Category: Essential Apple Podcast
Essential Apple Podcast 143: Mark takes flight solo
Recorded 21st July 2019 This week Simon’s son managed to break his elbow in not one, but three places on a Saturday evening, leaving
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Essential Apple Podcast 142: An oasis in a desert of news
Recorded 14th July 2019 This week Apple announced new MacBook Airs and MacBook Pros, but killed the MacBook… also they cut prices on SSD
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Essential Apple Podcast 141: The Jony Ive Exit Strategy Edition
Recorded 30th June 2019 This week the iOS 13 and Catalina Public Betas launched – Simon (of course) ignored good sense and went headlong
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Essential Apple Podcast 140: Don’t forget to press record – idiot!
Recorded 23rd June 2019 After last week’s debacle where I managed to not record the show (heedjit!!!) I made doubly sure this week! I
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Essential Apple Podcast 139: The obligatory WWDC edition!
Recorded 9th June 2019 This week is of course the obligatory post WWDC edition! I am joined by Weyhan Ng our resident iOS developer
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Essential Apple Podcast 138: Pre WWDC Limbo
Recorded 2nd June 2019 This week I am joined by Suffolk Pete (@Hermboy) in what is an odd sort of Limbo – we are
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Essential Apple Podcast 137: Strange Days?
Recorded 26th May 2019 This week I am joined by the semi regular co-hosts Nick (@spligosh) Riley and Donny (@rtteachr) Yankellow, to take a
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Essential Apple Podcast 136: A Pragmatic Approach to a Lack of News (Part Two)
This edition, Part Two of the show recorded with John Chidgey of Bubblesort and The Engineered Network (home of Pragmatic, Analytical, and more) and
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Essential Apple Podcast 135: A Pragmatic Approach to a Lack of News (Part One)
Recorded 12th May 2019 Alright – it is late again, mea culpa! However in my defence this show took quite a lot of creative
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Essential Apple Podcast 134: Of Clickbait, Brain Herpes and Starting a Podcast
Recorded 5th May 2019 First of all deepest apologies for the very late posting of this edition – I won’t bore you with the
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Essential Apple Podcast 133: The Donkey… Ehh, he was not pleased
Recorded 28th April 2019 Well what the actual hell? I take a week off and the internet goes berserk! Apple and Qualcomm settle, Intel
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Essential Apple Podcast 132: Down the rabbit hole with Simon & Nick…
Recorded 14th April 2019 This week there didn’t seem to be a great deal of Apple news, not so much a “quiet week that
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Essential Apple Podcast 131: It was a quiet week… & then it wasn’t!
Recorded 7th April 2019 This week was a bit slim on Apple news, or at least until the last minute… Then all of a
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Essential Apple Podcast 130: So that Showtime event… Hot or not?
Recorded 31st March 2019 This week, in the wake of the Apple “It’s Showtime” keynote, and with the luxury of a few days to
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Essential Apple Podcast 129: Maybe Jules Verne was right?
This week I am joined by fellow Slacker resident Ivor (the Airship) Pope to see what we thought of this week’s hardware releases, Apple’s
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Essential Apple Podcast 128: Mindblowing stuff is coming!
This week I am joined by fellow Suffolk MUG member and Slackroom resident Suffolk Pete to ponder the likely shenanigans to come on the
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Essential Apple Podcast 127: Hey Tim! Is that you?
Recorded 10th March 2019 This week Uncle Tim made a joke out of Donald Trump’s name slipup, US Senator Elizabeth Warren wants to break
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Essential Apple Podcast 126: The Tucson MUG Takeover
Recorded 3rd March The Tucson Mac User Group rounded up a posse of MyMac contributors and sent them to take over the show… I
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Essential Apple Podcast 125: Should I just get a megaphone?
Recorded 24th February 2019 This week I am joined by “the eccentric iOS developer” Weyhan Ng and Nick Riley (@spligosh) and we get stuck
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