The Essential Apple Podcast

The Essential Apple Podcast


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S1E291 - Essential Apple Podcast 291: WWW is 35 years old!
March 26, 2024

On this show: the World Wide Web turned 35, Nick still has hacker issues, Sonoma bugs, Vision Pro used in neuro surgery, hints that Apple are ramping up on their AI works and more. As ever Simon and Nick have a natter about it all. MISSION TO SEAFARERS A

S1E290 - Essential Apple Podcast 290: Spats, Hacks & A.I.
March 11, 2024

On the show this time, Nick got hacked! Apple and Epic get into another spat, in which they both came off looking stupid, and childish... Simon and Nick have been playing with A.I. image tools. Apple made modifications to its new EU rules, a man has recov

S1E289 - Essential Apple Podcast 289: So long Apple car… We never knew you at all!
March 09, 2024

This week Simon has a new microphone so hopefully the sound will be a little better. Meanwhile apparently the Titan has Fallen, the Apple car project is officially dead, Vision Pro returns are no worse than any other Apple product, there is new Post Q

S1E288 - Essential Apple Podcast 288: Happy Birthday Steve
March 01, 2024

This week Simon and Nick consider Steves birthday and, sadly, two years of war in the Ukraine, plus Post Quantum Cryptography, Apples first folding device, some Apple TV+, and an Apple Ring? Apologies if the sound is still a little below par, Simons n

S1E287 - Essential Apple Podcast 287: Small, not far away!
February 27, 2024

Late yet again! However, this time Nick and Simon talk about the DMA (again), the Vision Pro (again), Peleton backpedalling, and look at the award-winning, worlds smallest humanoid robot ironically reported on by Giant Freakin Robot!Also Simons microph

S1E286 - Essential Apple Podcast 286: Don't Mess About
February 06, 2024

Simon and Nick have a chat about the Vision Pro, Apple's DMA proposals and the Quarterly results... And yes, the title is a deliberate misquote of Kenneth Williams' famous "stop messing about!"MISSION TO SEAFARERS APPEALThe Mission to Seafarers is look

S1E285 - Essential Apple Podcast 285: Seafarers & The Wizard of Woke
January 29, 2024

This week Simon and Nick are joined by the Revd Canon Andrew Dotchin, Suffolk MUG member, longtime Mac user and Vicar of Felixstowe (Britains busiest port), to talk about Apple, 40 years of the Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro and lots of other stuff which m

S1E284 - Essential Apple Podcast 284: Visions of Angels (Landing)
January 17, 2024

Happy New Year! It is 2024 (even though it was 1976 a few months ago wasnt it?) Anyway, Simon and Nick finally get back together after the Holiday Season (and a few other things) got in the way... Chatter covers the Vision Pro, a bunch of security stori

S1E283 - Essential Apple Podcast 283: A whole heap of news
November 24, 2023

Simon and Nick get together to chat over what is actually quite a lot of news Apple unexpectedly announce RCS support is coming to iOS, how much Google pay Apple leaks out in court, Black Friday is coming and there will be deals to be had on Macs new an

S1E282 - Essential Apple Podcast 282: Score one for the UK
November 22, 2023

Bit late again with this one, sorry - Simon and Nick talk about the MBP M3s and is 8GB RAM enough, is it worth upgrading if you have an earlier M series, and a variety of other stuff (as they always do) including Nick’s NuKiand the UK bonus in ApplePay co