The Essential Apple Podcast

After a bit of a cock up last week which was completely Simon’s fault (and he’s very very sorry about it) Simon does a solo show because Nick is otherwise engaged... Simon has thoughts on AI after more adventures with generative tools, fun tunes from Suno, some with lyrics by Simon, Copilot generated images (some with AI weirdness) and a whip around some of the news stories... MISSION TO SEAFARERS APPEAL The Mission to SeafarersMission to Seafarers Centremissiontoseafarers.org Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 14th April 2024 On this week's show NICK RILEY SlackYouTubeYou Tube AI – Tunes, Images and Thoughts Suno.aiCopilot DesignerhereSlack APPLE AppleTechRadar9to5MacBGRTechPPiMoreThe Verge SECURITY & PRIVACY Lad Bible VINNE & THE SQUIRRELS VS THE ANALYSTS TechRadar WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS SlashGearTechPPTechPP JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast The MirrorAirPod 2AirPod Pro Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things SecuredPixel PrivacyDoug.ee BlogGhosterySimple Login33mail.comAnonAddySudoProtonMailProtonVPNComparitech DNS Leak TestFake Name GeneratorWirePinecast Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast SHOUT OUTAmazon Affiliate LinkPatreonPinecast Tips JarHUGE Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

This week Simon and Nick are joined by Mattieu Kopp co-founder and CTO of CYME.io, makers of Avalanche (a tool for migrating photo libraries from App to App), plus Peakto, Find My Snaps, and since we recorded this Peakto for Lightroom, which are amazing AI/ML powered tools for searching and organising your photos in clever and interesting ways. After discussing that they all take a wander through some of the news from the week, including an M series chip flaw and a medical world’s first. MISSION TO SEAFARERS APPEAL The Mission to Seafarersold, but working, smartphones and internet capable tabletsMission to Seafarers Centremissiontoseafarers.org Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 10th March 2024 On this week's show NICK RILEY SlackYouTubeYou Tube MATTHIEU KOPP CYME.io APPLE Hardcore SoftwareSix ColorsDaring FireballiMoreiMore9to5Mac TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE CNNPC Mag SECURITY & PRIVACY MashableMSNTom’s Guide JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast MacRumors Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things SecuredPixel PrivacyDoug.ee BlogGhosterySimple Login33mail.comAnonAddySudoProtonMailProtonVPNComparitech DNS Leak TestFake Name GeneratorWirePinecast Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast SHOUT OUTAmazon Affiliate LinkPatreonPinecast Tips JarHUGE Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

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 APPEAL The Mission to Seafarersold, but working, smartphones and internet capable tabletsMission to Seafarers Centremissiontoseafarers.org Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 10th March 2024 On this week's show NICK RILEY SlackYouTubeYou Tube APPLE TechRadar9to5MacPhilip Elmer‑DeWittReutersCNNTechRadarMacRumors9to5MacCult of MacTechRadar9to5MacHardcore Software by Steven Sinofsky SECURITY & PRIVACY 9to5MacSnopes WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS TechPP Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things SecuredPixel PrivacyDoug.ee BlogGhosterySimple Login33mail.comAnonAddySudoProtonMailProtonVPNComparitech DNS Leak TestFake Name GeneratorWirePinecast Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast SHOUT OUTAmazon Affiliate LinkPatreonPinecast Tips JarHUGE Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

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 recovered over 200 Apple Watches from lakes in Illinois and Donny is disappointed in his Zagg pencils for iPads, and of course some other stuff too! MISSION TO SEAFARERS APPEAL The Mission to Seafarersold, but working, smartphones and internet capable tabletsMission to Seafarers Centremissiontoseafarers.org Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 10th March 2024 On this week's show NICK RILEY SlackYouTubeYou Tube APPLE The IndependentTom's GuideTechRadarZDNetTechRadarVarietyThe Verge9to5MaciDrop News9to5MacMacRumorsCult of Mac TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE EngadgetAndroid Central WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Living EtcTom’s GuideSlackroom JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast 9to5Mac9to5Mac Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things SecuredPixel PrivacyDoug.ee BlogGhosterySimple Login33mail.comAnonAddySudoProtonMailProtonVPNComparitech DNS Leak TestFake Name GeneratorWirePinecast Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast SHOUT OUTAmazon Affiliate LinkPatreonPinecast Tips JarHUGE Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

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 Quantum crytographic protection coming for iMessage, and more! Simon and Nick set to and try to make sense of it all... MISSION TO SEAFARERS APPEAL The Mission to Seafarersold, but working, smartphones and internet capable tabletsMission to Seafarers Centremissiontoseafarers.org Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 3rd March 2024 On this week's show NICK RILEY SlackYouTubeYou Tube APPLE EngadgetThe VergeAppleInsiderCreative BloqAppleInsiderT3.comPC Mag UKiDrop News9to5MacCult of MacMacRumors9to5MacPC Mag UKMacTrast TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE 9to5Mac SECURITY & PRIVACY Blog - iMessage with PQ3: The new state of the art in quantum-secure messaging at scale – Apple Dougee Says: iMessage lacked post-compromise security. In the Signal protocol, your communication keys are constantly updated and “ratcheted” forwards. This means that a compromised phone/backup won’t be useful for long. You’ll replace the stolen keys within a few minutes. In iMessage this wasn’t true: public keys were long-lived. The new update adds periodic rekeying using elliptic curve cryptography, to ensure that compromised keys quickly become useless, both in the future and for decrypting past messages. This closes an important threat vector. Along with key transparency, this makes iMessage a state-of-the-art cryptographic protocol. Even with those improvements, the remaining problem is that elliptic curve crypto is not secure against future quantum computing advances. This doesn’t matter today, but if such computers are built in the future, they could be used to decrypt past conversations. So Apple has made two changes in this update. Frequent elliptic curve rekeying. Second “post quantum secure” algorithm: Kyber. Ok, so what? You might point out that this is overkill. Quantum computers are years away, and key compromise is rare. So why should I care about this? The answer is you probably don’t need to care. It is overkill. But sometimes overkill sends a useful message, one that should be heard by people who aren’t technical at all. VINNE & THE SQUIRRELS VS THE ANALYSTS iMoreiMore WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS MacRumors JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast MacRumors Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things SecuredPixel PrivacyDoug.ee BlogGhosterySimple Login33mail.comAnonAddySudoProtonMailProtonVPNComparitech DNS Leak TestFake Name GeneratorWirePinecast Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast SHOUT OUTAmazon Affiliate LinkPatreonPinecast Tips JarHUGE Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

This week Simon and Nick consider Steve’s birthday and, sadly, two years of war in the Ukraine, plus Post Quantum Cryptography, Apple’s first folding device, some Apple TV+, and an Apple Ring? Apologies if the sound is still a little below par, Simon’s new mic didn’t arrive in time for this recording, but hopefully all will be well by the next show. MISSION TO SEAFARERS APPEAL The Mission to Seafarersold, but working, smartphones and internet capable tabletsMission to Seafarers Centremissiontoseafarers.org Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 25th February 2024 On this week's show NICK RILEY SlackYouTubeYou Tube APPLE MacRumors9to5MacForbesDaring FireballTidBITSAppleTom's GuideiDrop NewsiMoreCult of MaciMorehttps://geektyrant.com/news/masters-of-the-air-is-apple-tvs-most-watched-series-launch-ever-which-is-great-newsiMoreGamesRadar WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS HuffPost UKUNILADiDrop NewsBGR Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things SecuredPixel PrivacyDoug.ee BlogGhosterySimple Login33mail.comAnonAddySudoProtonMailProtonVPNComparitech DNS Leak TestFake Name GeneratorWirePinecast Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast SHOUT OUTAmazon Affiliate LinkPatreonPinecast Tips JarHUGE Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

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, world’s smallest humanoid robot ironically reported on by Giant Freakin Robot! Also Simon’s microphone failed suddenly and unexpectedly with no apparent cause just before the show... so sound quality isn’t quite as good as normal - sorry. MISSION TO SEAFARERS APPEAL The Mission to Seafarersold, but working, smartphones and internet capable tabletsMission to Seafarers Centremissiontoseafarers.org Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 18th February 2024 On this week's show NICK RILEY SlackYouTubeYou Tube APPLE Mac RumorsTechRadarMac RumorsTechRadarInverseiMorehttps://www.techradar.com/phones/say-goodbye-to-web-apps-ios-174-removes-useful-feature-on-iphones-in-the-eu9to5Mac9to5MacAppleInsider9to5MaciMore9to5Mac TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE App StoreFox BusinessGiant Freakin RobotIT Pro SECURITY & PRIVACY 9to5Mac9to5MacMac Rumors9to5Mac WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things SecuredPixel PrivacyDoug.ee BlogGhosterySimple Login33mail.comAnonAddySudoProtonMailProtonVPNComparitech DNS Leak TestFake Name GeneratorWirePinecast Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast SHOUT OUTAmazon Affiliate LinkPatreonPinecast Tips JarHUGE Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

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 APPEAL The Mission to Seafarersold, but working, smartphones and internet capable tabletsMission to Seafarers Centremissiontoseafarers.org Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 4th February 2024 On this week's show NICK RILEY SlackYouTubeYou Tube APPLE The VergeYouTubeDaring FireballSix ColorsSix ColorsThe TiimesApple NewsroomDaring Fireball TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE The Cool Down SECURITY & PRIVACY MacRumors Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things SecuredPixel PrivacyDoug.ee BlogGhosterySimple Login33mail.comAnonAddySudoProtonMailProtonVPNComparitech DNS Leak TestFake Name GeneratorWirePinecast Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast SHOUT OUTAmazon Affiliate LinkPatreonPinecast Tips JarHUGE Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

This week Simon and Nick are joined by the Revd Canon Andrew Dotchin, Suffolk MUG member, longtime Mac user and Vicar of Felixstowe (Britain’s busiest port), to talk about Apple, 40 years of the Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro and lots of other stuff which may (or may not) be related to tech… MISSION TO SEAFARERS APPEAL The Mission to Seafarers provides help and support to the 1.89 million crewmen and women who face danger every day to keep our global economy afloat, transporting over 90% of the world’s goods and fuels. Being able to contact home when making shore half way round the world from home is something priceless to these merchant matelots. The Mission to Seafarers is looking for donations of old, but working, smartphones and internet capable tablets to give seafarers far from home a way to talk to friends and family If you have any old smartphones or tablets cluttering your cupboard and drawers why not donate them to this worthy cause? If you are in the UK contact Rev. Andrew Dotchin Vicar@felixparish.com or your nearest Mission to Seafarers Centre, or if you live outside the UK and would like to help, simply visit missiontoseafarers.org and make a donation. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 21st January 2024 On this week's show REV CANON ANDREW DOTCHIN https://felixparish.com NICK RILEY SlackYouTubeYou Tube APPLE SmithsonianNBC Bay AreaiPhone in Canada BlogDigital Trends9to5MacForbesTechRadarMacRumorsFast CompanyCult of MacDaring FireballTechRadarWindows CentralToronto Sun SECURITY & PRIVACY FTCTechCrunchThe Verge WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS iDrop NewsSlashGear Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things SecuredPixel PrivacyDoug.ee BlogGhosterySimple Login33mail.comAnonAddySudoProtonMailProtonVPNComparitech DNS Leak TestFake Name GeneratorWirePinecast Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast SHOUT OUTAmazon Affiliate LinkPatreonPinecast Tips JarHUGE Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Happy New Year! It is 2024 (even though it was 1976 a few months ago wasn’t 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 stories, a nuclear battery, and lots more, as always seems to happen. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 14th January 2024 On this week's show NICK RILEY SlackYouTubeYou Tube APPLE The VergeFast CompanyAppleGo ProEarth TrekkersReutersTom’s GuideTech RadarTechCrunchApple SupportiMore TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE Laptop MagReutersBrighter Side News SECURITY & PRIVACY SecurelistArs TechnicaArs TechnicaTechRadarMacRumorsTechspot VINNE & THE SQUIRRELS VS THE ANALYSTS iMoreThe Apple PostAndroid Central NEMO’S HARDWARE STORE (47:34) MagicMount Travel Folding 2-in-1 Wireless Charger$75 USDPowerVolt PD35 Dual-Port USB-C Charger Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things SecuredPixel PrivacyDoug.ee BlogGhosterySimple Login33mail.comAnonAddySudoProtonMailProtonVPNComparitech DNS Leak TestFake Name GeneratorWirePinecast Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast SHOUT OUTAmazon Affiliate LinkPatreonPinecast Tips JarHUGE Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

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 and not quite so new, latest betas are out, and more! GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 19th November 2023 On this week's show NICK RILEY SlackYouTubeYou Tube APPLE TrustedReviewsYahoo FinanceTom's GuideAppleInsideriMoreAppleInsiderZDNETiMoreThe Apple PostTechRadarTom's GuideMacRumors9to5Mac SECURITY & PRIVACY iMore9to5MacAppleInsiderAndroid Central WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS SlashGearTidBITSCult of Mac Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things SecuredPixel PrivacyDoug.ee BlogGhosterySimple Login33mail.comAnonAddySudoProtonMailProtonVPNComparitech DNS Leak TestFake Name GeneratorWirePinecast Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast SHOUT OUTAmazon Affiliate LinkPatreonPinecast Tips JarHUGE Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

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 courtesy of the UK Banking's Open Banking API. GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 12th November 2023 On this week's show NICK RILEY SlackYouTubeYou Tube APPLE The IndependentTechRadarDigital TrendsAppleInsider9to5Mac9to5MacLaptop MagiDrop News9to5Mac WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS AppleInsiderPopular Science NEMO’S HARDWARE STORE (1:09:15) https://icuracao.com/default/einova-eggtronic-universal-ultra-fast-power-bank-63w-canvas.html£90 UKP$130 USD£185 UKP Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things SecuredPixel PrivacyDoug.ee BlogGhosterySimple Login33mail.comAnonAddySudoProtonMailProtonVPNComparitech DNS Leak TestFake Name GeneratorWirePinecast Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast SHOUT OUTAmazon Affiliate LinkPatreonPinecast Tips JarHUGE Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Simon and Nick get together to talk about the Scary Fast Event and the Apple Earnings, and some other stuff, just because... GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 5th November 2023 On this show NICK RILEY SlackYouTubeYou Tube Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things SecuredPixel PrivacyDoug.ee BlogGhosterySimple Login33mail.comAnonAddySudoProtonMailProtonVPNComparitech DNS Leak TestFake Name GeneratorWirePinecast Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast SHOUT OUTAmazon Affiliate LinkPatreonPinecast Tips JarHUGE Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Another unexpected hiatus and Simon tells us some of why that was before he and Nick try to settle down and discuss what they think Apple might have to tell us in the Scary Fast event... except it doesn’t pan out that way and Simon has to do most of the show solo... GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 29th October 2023 On this week's show NICK RILEY SlackYouTubeYou Tube Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things SecuredPixel PrivacyDoug.ee BlogGhosterySimple Login33mail.comAnonAddySudoProtonMailProtonVPNComparitech DNS Leak TestFake Name GeneratorWirePinecast Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast SHOUT OUTAmazon Affiliate LinkPatreonPinecast Tips JarHUGE Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

OK so Simon is finally catching up, and here is the show from only a week ago where he and Nick spend some time on what’s new in Apple’s most recent releases, some customer support experiences they’ve had, and to be honest a lot of time talking about Simon’s new EV... and why not? Also sorry about the intrusion of a bunch of folk and Vinnie the dog part of the way through... Apparently the “On Air” sign wasn’t enough to deter them - edited out the worst of it but you will find Vinnie wasn’t going to give up until his opinions were heard :D, and there is some background noise in the later part of the show. Anyway hope you enjoy this one regardless! GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 8th October 2023 On this week’s show NICK RILEY SlackYouTubeYou Tube APPLE MacRumorsApple Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things SecuredPixel PrivacyDoug.ee BlogGhosterySimple Login33mail.comAnonAddySudoProtonMailProtonVPNComparitech DNS Leak TestFake Name GeneratorWirePinecast Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Pinecast SHOUT OUTAmazon Affiliate LinkPatreonPinecast Tips JarHUGE Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Another disgracefully late release as I (Simon) try desperately to get back on track and publish the stuff that should have been out weeks ago... Anyway this time Nick and I natter about the WonderLust event and what new shiny toys Apple brought us this time. Also because we never get any reviews, Nick goes all out to see if he can generate a few for us! (Listen to the results in the Aftershow). GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 17th September 2023 On this show NICK RILEY SlackYouTubeYou Tube APPLE Apple Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things SecuredPixel PrivacyDoug.ee BlogGhosterySimple Login33mail.comAnonAddySudoProtonMailProtonVPNComparitech DNS Leak TestFake Name GeneratorWirePinecast Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Pinecast SHOUT OUTAmazon Affiliate LinkPatreonPinecast Tips JarHUGE Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

This one is OBSCENELY LATE (and it is all Simon’s fault, and he holds his hands up to it) - anyway, in the spirit of “we recorded it, so we’re putting it out” here is an ancient recording discussing stuff that happened way back in the start of September, plus more of Nick and Simon’s usual idle musings on other stuff not related to anything in particular. GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 10th September 2023 On this show NICK RILEY SlackYouTubeYou Tube LEGISLATION 9to5MacTechRadarEvening StandardEFFFinancial Times9to5MacBGRTechRadar APPLE Apple 3.0Creative BloqHYPEBEASTTechSpot9to5MacBGRCult of MacAppleInsiderBGRAppleInsiderUSA TODAYTechRadarApple 3.0iPhone in CanadaTom's GuideiMoreMacRumorshttps://www.cultofmac.com/828383/apple-might-release-thunderbolt-cable-for-iphone-15-pro/Cult of MacMacRumors SOCIAL MEDIA MacRumorsThe Verge TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE Brighter Side NewsFairphone SECURITY & PRIVACY TechSpotSlashGearTom's GuideHuffPosthttps://www.cultofmac.com/828287/is-your-smart-light-bulb-giving-passwords-to-hackers/Proton – WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS SlashGearAppleInsiderT3WIRED UK JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast Cult of Mac Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things SecuredPixel PrivacyDoug.ee BlogGhosterySimple Login33mail.comAnonAddySudoProtonMailProtonVPNComparitech DNS Leak TestFake Name GeneratorWirePinecast Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast SHOUT OUTAmazon Affiliate LinkPatreonPinecast Tips JarHUGE Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Another super late release of a show with Simon and Nick (really have to find a more efficient way to process the show notes..., not sure Simon can do anything to fix his busy life schedules :D). Anyway - here it is with a variety of stories again mostly avoiding stuff from “people close to the matter say”. Oh and a bunch of car chatter in the Aftershow/Preshow segment! GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 13th August 2023 On this week’s show NICK RILEY SlackYouTubeYou Tube APPLE iMoreiMoreTom's GuideTom's GuideZDNETTidBITSTidBITSAppleInsideriPhone in Canada BlogZDNETTrustedReviews SECURITY & PRIVACY WIREDEFTM VINNE & THE SQUIRRELS VS THE ANALYSTS AppleInsider WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS SlashGearTom's GuideSlashGear Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things SecuredPixel PrivacyDoug.ee BlogGhosterySimple Login33mail.comAnonAddySudoProtonMailProtonVPNComparitech DNS Leak TestFake Name GeneratorWirePinecast Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast SHOUT OUTAmazon Affiliate LinkPatreonPinecast Tips JarHUGE Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Late again but there we go - apologies for that. Anyway Simon and Nick got together as usual to chat about the news stories and other stuff as they do. This time there’s Game Maker stuff for VisionPro, a weird Apple patent, a new TidBits Poll feature, threats to encrypted messages, an expensive pair of Apple Sneakers (and the original Apple Watch). GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS KINOWITHJOHNNEMO Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 30th July 2023 On this week’s show NICK RILEY SlackYouTubeYou Tube APPLE AppleInsider – Unity launches game creator program for Vision Pro developers Cult of Mac – iPhone 15 Pro’s massive upgrades could cost you Business Insider9to5MaciMoreTom's GuideCreative BloqTidBITS – Introducing “Do You Use It?” Polls AppleMagazine – Apple Requiring Developers to Validate Use of Certain APIs, Aiming to Improve Privacy 9to5Mac Apple InsiderMacRumorsEntrepreneurGuardian – Beats Studio Pro review: Apple’s new top headphones love Android too BGR – watchOS 10 adds all-new gestures for Apple Watch users RFINationalWorldSlashGear SOCIAL MEDIA iMoreiDrop News TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE ScienceAlertArvix SECURITY & PRIVACY 9to5MacBBC NewsNationalWorldTom's Guide WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS AppleToot.CatDigital Trends Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things SecuredPixel PrivacyDoug.ee BlogGhosterySimple Login33mail.comAnonAddySudoProtonMailProtonVPNComparitech DNS Leak TestFake Name GeneratorWirePinecast Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast SHOUT OUTAmazon Affiliate LinkPatreonPinecast Tips JarHUGE Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Sorry this one is disgracefully and inexcusably late because... well because of stuff. Anyway Simon was joined by Bart to take a look at the news of the week (at the time) and found a bit more to talk about than they thought they might... Also apologies the sound isn’t up to the usual standard... there was quite a lot of traffic noise and also either Discord or Audio Hijack had a hissy fit at Bart’s end and he had to do the second half with just a live mic resulting in some gain issues... Anyway its cleaned up as best as Simon could manage and we hope it doesn’t spoil your enjoyment too much! GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS KINOWITHJOHNNEMO Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 16th July 2023 On this week’s show BART BUSSCHOTS Let’s Talk PodcastsPodfeet APPLE TechRadarBGRTechRadarTom's GuideCreative BloqAppleMagazineThe Cool DownTidBITSBBC NewsBGR9to5MaciPhone in Canada9to5MaciDrop NewsPatently AppleAppleInsiderCult of Mac Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things SecuredPixel PrivacyDoug.ee BlogGhosterySimple Login33mail.comAnonAddySudoProtonMailProtonVPNComparitech DNS Leak TestFake Name GeneratorWirePinecast Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast SHOUT OUTAmazon Affiliate LinkPatreonPinecast Tips JarHUGE Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.