That pesky Apple Car just won’t go away! Just when you thought it was safe to start looking at what analysts say again, this crops up once again proving the old saying…”Analysts are idiots who will say anything to get you to part ways with your money in the direction they’re being paid to tell you to spend it at.”. OK, the saying might not be old, in fact we may have made it up here on the spot, but it it doesn’t make it any less true.

On Geekiest Show Ever episode 361, Melissa talks with Allison Sheridan, host of Nosillacast Podcast and Chit Chat Across the Pond, on an episode of CCATP on how to help seniors set up their iPhones. Here is a link to Melissa's Guide to Setting up iPhone for Vintage Users in a Dignified Way https://www.themacmommy.com/2021/08/setting-up-iphone-for-vintage-users-in_01897090834.html Check out our full show notes here: https://www.geekiestshowever.com/gse361-ccatp-meets-gse Do you have questions about what you heard in this episode? Please send us your feedback. You can email us: podcast at geekiestshowever dot com. Follow us on Twitter for additional tips and conversation: https://twitter.com/GeekiestShow. We'd like to hear from you, so let us know which tech topics interest you most. Elisa can be found at https://twitter.com/elisapacelli1 and Melissa can be found at https://TheMacMommy.com/

Topics include Huawei allegations, Apple allowing external payment links in reader apps but not games, better TV options for John Nemo, Xbox Series S, selling a Mac, and is Wireless Apple CarPlay adapters finally ready for prime time?

Apple is the company that gives and then takes away. Announcements have been made that they are going to start scanning users Photos library to help stop underage exploitation and while that is a lofty goal, what does it mean in regards to user’s privacy that Apple has touted in their press clippings?

David talks about his new 900Mbit fibre connection, Tim is building a new Plex media server from a miniPC, Apple news about their child endangerment plans, and is the xR the best used iPhone you can buy?

Tim and David discuss the passing of Richard Donner, LucasFilm hiring a deep-fake artist, Disney being sued by Scarlett Johansson, as well as reviews of Black Widow and season 1 of Loki

Gaz is off doing all things Gaz this week so Karl Madden graciously allowed himself to be blackmailed into being on. For fulfilling his end of the deal, those pictures will never be released to the general public. They go into their recording setup and gear because there's not really all that much else going on and Guy LOVES talking about that stuff.

With David absent, Guy Serle joins Tim to discuss some podcast history, Apple lack of touch displays and employees wanting to continue working from home, Tim’s mini-PC gaming rig, Guy’s new desk, and Activision Blizzard being sued.

With fall about to drop in about a month, a lot people begin to focus of new iPhones. However with the transition away from Intel for the Macs, it has been a very chaotic kind of year not even including a global pandemic. The M1 Macs have been pretty good, but there’s lots of room for improvement with the Macs that haven’t gotten out of the labs yet.

We talked about some of the new features coming up for macOS Monterey last week and said we'd talk some more about it this week...which is what we're going to do. So that shouldn't be all that surprising.