Recorded 6th October 2019 Aaaand… we made it to 150! Alas it’s also the 8th anniversary of Steve Jobs’ passing… Uncle Tim was travelling
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Category: Essential Apple Podcast
Essential Apple Podcast 149: “Let’s Talk†… to Bart Busschots
Recorded 22nd September 2019 After a couple of weeks or more of guests and not bothering to look at the news Simon is joined
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Essential Apple Podcast 148: BeLight – no need to feel sheepish
Recorded 22nd September 2019 This week the news was of course dominated by the new iPhones, Apple Watch 5, and all that. As Simon
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Essential Apple Podcast 147: Affinity – a ten year labour of love!
Recorded 15th September 2019 Simon is still afflicted with a stuffed up nose but never mind – this week he and Donny are joined
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Essential Apple Podcast Extra: Simon’s event reactions
Recorded September 2019 So the event has been and gone. Everyone is having their say so why shouldn’t Simon get his tuppence worth in
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Essential Apple Podcast 146: It’s a kind of magic
Recorded 8th September 2019 Simon is struck down with a miserable sinus infection but as no one else is free he stuffs Kleenex up
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Essential Apple Podcast 145: It might as well rain until September!
Recorded 1st September 2019 And we are back! Did you miss us? Well despite August traditionally being a news dead zone and all round
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Essential Apple Podcast 144: School’s out for summer…
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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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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