The Essential Apple Podcast

By Essential Apple Crew

What's The Essential Apple Podcast about?

An Apple based podcast covering the last 7 - 10 days in the world of Apple news, reviews, rumours, roundups, guides and anything else that catches our eyes in the world of tech.

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The Essential Apple Podcast episodes:

11.30.2021
S1E245 - Essential Apple Podcast 245: Rarest Mac Accessory Ever?
We hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving and a Happy Hannuka to those who will be celebrating that... Not much news really but Nick and Simon find a few bits to natter about including the ultra rare WristMac and AR...
11.23.2021
S1E244 - Essential Apple Podcast 244: Fix it yourself?
This week Simon and Nick discuss if Apple are planning their car to launch without a steering wheel or pedals in 2025. The surprise announcement you will be able to fix it yourself soon - if you really want. How...
11.10.2021
S1E243 - Essential Apple Podcast 243: Can I do the twirling thing now?
Warren Sklar (of Mac To The Future, In Touch With iOS, and more) joins Simon and Nick to chat over the goings on this week including “hidden features” in Monterey, Siri Apple Watch commands, a MyCharge safety recall, a Quick...
11.01.2021
S1E242 - Essential Apple Podcast 242: I want to ride my bicycle
Apple reported record results {again) - analysts moaned (again), shares went down (again) - Nick and Simon decide to mostly ignore that and talk about other things from the week including the OpenBike, the Apple Polishing Cloth, the M1 MacBook...
10.28.2021
S1E241 - Essential Apple Podcast 241: Monterey Day
Monterey is out today (but an hour out as we recorded), Steve (from Geeks Corner and Nick join Simon to mull over a grab bag of stories including obviously Monterey, M1 chips, the Google Tensor and a couple of medical...
10.20.2021
S1E240 - Essential Apple Podcast 240: Off the leash!
This week following the Apple Unleashed event Simon and Nick are joined by Patrice Brend'amour and her sometimes partner in crime Jeff Gamet to talk about the event, the chips, the ports, the Macs, and more. GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Glenn Fleishman’s book...
10.13.2021
S1E239 - Essential Apple Podcast 239: In Touch With Essential Apple
Nick, Jim and Simon are joined by David Ginsburg of In Touch With iOS, The Mac Show and MacVoices to mull over the news of the week - including iOS 15, CarPlay, Google’s new Password Shield and various other things...
10.07.2021
S1E238 - Essential Apple Podcast 238: OMG – What the hell is that?
It’s ten years since Steve died, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp went off for 6 hours, Amazon introduce a cute privacy nightmare and more, and Nick and Simon cogitate on it all. GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Glenn Fleishman’s book Take Control of Securing Your...
09.27.2021
S1E237 - Essential Apple Podcast 237: A Fireside Chat with Nick and Simon
Slightly different sort of show this week - Jim was a bit under the weather so it is just Nick and Simon, and there wasn’t a huge amount of news that piqued our interest so we just settle down for...
09.23.2021
S1E236 - Essential Apple Podcast 236: California Streaming...
So it happened - Apple had a California Streaming event and released some shiny new toys... what do we have to say on the matter? Listen and find out of course... A new study estimates that people will snap upwards of...
09.09.2021
Essential Apple Podcast Bonus: Photo organisation app Mylio, with David Vaskevitch
Simon talks to David Vaskevitch (ex Microsolft CTO and CEO of photo app Mylio - the audio has the whole of the recording, the video starts when David wants to share his screen (yeah I wasn’t totally on the ball...
09.09.2021
S1E235 - Essential Apple Podcast 235: Rock Down to Electric Avenue
No Jim this week but quite a lot of news, we correctly predict that Apple might send out invitations the day after we record, discuss the Primephonic acquisition and hope it means a decent classical offering from Apple, Nick takes...
08.30.2021
S1E234 - Essential Apple Podcast 234: Apple car this year? No way!!!
Wow - loads of Apple stuff this week that isn’t about leaks and speculations around what may come in September, and Simon thought this might be a no actual Apple show! Also as well as the regulars Nick and Jim...
08.24.2021
S1E233 - Essential Apple Podcast 233: Around the Houses with Essential Apple
With the likely Apple Event(s) drowing closer and "silly season" in full swing actual news is a little thin on the ground but Simon, Nick and Jim take a drive around the houses anyway :D GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Glenn Fleishman’s book Take...
08.21.2021
S1E232 - Essential Apple Podcast 232: Talking with Andy J
Simon’s Mac is still in “dry dock” having failed a second time exactly as before - apparently it shipped out from the Apple Repair Centre earlier today as we record, so forgive us once again if the sound isn’t as...
08.10.2021
S1E231 - Essential Apple Podcast 231: Think of the children
Recorded 8th August 2021 Nick and Simon get together once again to consider Apple’s “child safety initiative” which has blown up a huge debate this week, scratch their heads over what Microsoft’s 365 Cloud PCs actually offer and general wander around...
08.02.2021
S1E230 - Essential Apple Podcast 230: Yes… It's a Happy Mac Again! :D
Recorded 1st August 2021 Annnnd IT’S BACK - yes the M1 MBA returns in all its glory. Simon is joined by Nick to talk about that, the news in Apple and Tech, and whatever other discursive diversions take their fancy. GIVEAWAYS &...
07.28.2021
S1E229 - Essential Apple Podcast 229: It's a dead Mac! :(
Recorded 26th July 2021 Yes so we didn’t record last week... sort of because it was hot and sticky (at least by UK standards), and we didn’t feel like any stories really caught our interest... and well, we just weren’t really...
07.14.2021
S1E228 - Essential Apple Podcast 228: Jim wraps a parcel and other tales
Recorded 11th July 2021 Simon is joined once again by Nick, Jim (who appears to be demolishing his living room in the background) and Steve (who barely gets a word in) and they talk about a host of weird and wonderful...
07.05.2021
S1E227 - Essential Apple Podcast 227: Just because I could!
Recorded 4th July 2021 Once again the gang (Nick, Simon and Jim) assemble to take a look at some stories from the last week or so of Apple and Tech news including Windows 11 on mad hardwares, a custom built...
07.01.2021
S1E226 - Essential Apple Podcast 226: More News than you’d think
Recorded 27th June 2021 Currently Apple’s Podcast app doesn’t seem to render links properly so if you are listening in the Podcasts app go to www.essentialapple.com (http://www.essentialapple.com/) for full shownotes and links. Simon, Steve and Nick get together again to take a...
06.22.2021
S1E225 - Essential Apple Podcast 225: The boys are back
Recorded 20th June 2021 Currently Apple’s Podcast app doesn’t seem to render links properly so if you are listening in the Podcasts app go to www.essentialapple.com for full shownotes and links. The boys are back... Nick and Jim and Steve (from GeeksCorner.info)...
06.17.2021
S1E224 - Essential Apple Podcast 224: Post WWDC Ruminations
Recorded 13th June 2021 Currently Apple’s Podcast app doesn’t seem to render links properly so if you are listening in the Podcasts app go to www.essentialapple.com for full shownotes and links. This week Nick is doing a “family thing”, poor Steve has...
06.08.2021
S1E223 - Essential Apple Podcast 223: Pre WWDC Ponderings
Recorded 6th June 2021 Currently Apple’s Podcast app doesn’t seem to render links properly so if you are listening in the Podcasts app go to www.essentialapple.com (http://www.essentialapple.com/) for full shownotes and links. This week I wanted to try and get this out...
05.30.2021
S1E222 - Essential Apple Podcast 222: Browser Wars Part IV
Recorded 26th May 2021 Currently Apple’s Podcast app doesn’t seem to render links properly so if you are listening in the Podcasts app go to the Essential Apple website for full show notes and links. Nick and Simon are joined by Chuck...
05.26.2021
S1E221 - Essential Apple Podcast 221: Epic, Music, Betas and Ads...
Recorded 23rd May 2021 Currently Apple’s Podcast app doesn’t seem to render links properly so if you are listening in the Podcasts app go to www.essentialapple.com (http://www.essentialapple.com/) for full shownotes and links. This week the Apple v Epic trial came to the...
05.18.2021
S1E220 - Essential Apple Podcast 220: Geekiest Essential Apple Ever
Recorded 2nd May 2021 Essential Apple and the Geekiest Show Ever (http://www.geekiestshowever.com%20(http://www.geekiestshowever.com/)) go off the rails for The Geekiest Essential Apple Ever! Elisa, Melissa, and Simon discuss new Apple product announcements, tracking concerns, email aliases, medieval lingerie, and just where would...
05.05.2021
S1E219 - Essential Apple Podcast 219: Meandering Madness
Recorded 3rd May 2021 Jim and Simon and Nick get together again to meander around the news nd some other stuff - this is an extra long show because somehow we ended up with 4 hours of audio! Anyway with some...
04.21.2020
S1E172 - Essential Apple Podcast 172: Apple’s Super iPhone SE 2020
Recorded 20th April 2020 Apple launched the iPhone SE 2020 - and delivery dates have already slipped into May... Uncle Tim has been appointed to the Californian Economic Taskforce. Zoom in the press for the wrong reasons (again). Google warn Chrome...
04.15.2020
S1E171 - Essential Apple Podcast 171: Apple & Google Sitting in a Tree
Recorded 12th March 2020 Mark Nick and Jim join Simon to talk about another week in lockdown, the tech news from the week and whatever else comes up in the conversation. GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Glenn Fleishman’s Working From Home book is completely FREE...
04.08.2020
S1E170 - Essential Apple Podcast 170: Insane Sandwich
Recorded 5th April 2020 Mark returns to the show and we’re joined by Donny Yankellow and Guy Serle to talk about the iPad turning 10, iCloud folder sharing, AirTags, Zoom, video conferencing and more. GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Glenn Fleishman’s Working From Home book...
03.31.2020
S1E169 - Essential Apple Podcast 169: LOCKDOWN!
Recorded 29th March 2020 You may notice some difference in the sound this episode - Simon’s Mac had a kernel panic right at the end of the show and wiped out his recordings... Luckily Nick records a backup but his set...
03.25.2020
S1E168 - Essential Apple Podcast 168: Working from home special
Recorded 22nd March 2020 Apple launch and all new MacBook Air, iPad Pros with LiDAR, a keyboard with backlighting and trackpad for the new and previous gen iPad Pros, updated MacMini with more storage, new iPhone cases and watch straps. iOS...
03.16.2020
S1E167 - Essential Apple Podcast 167: Zoom & Enhance? Pixelmator says "Yes you can!"
Recorded 15th March 2020 WWDC goes virtual (no surprise there), people are already making predictions based on the image, iOS14 leaks predict homescreen list view. Microsoft take down a zombie botnet and Bill Gates steps down from the board. But more...
03.12.2020
S1E166 - Essential Apple Podcast 166: A show with no notes?
Recorded 8th March 2020 Not a great deal of Apple News, except the growing expectation Apple might not be able to do WWDC in the same way as previous years, and a free fix for owners of iPad Air 3s with...
03.03.2020
S1E165 - Essential Apple Podcast 165: Rampant speculation
Recorded 1st March 2020 This week would have been Steve Jobs’ 65th birthday, the product turned verb Photoshop passed 30, the StyleWriter is 29 and speculation about ARM Macs is running rife. Also the novelcoronavirus COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc. To...
02.24.2020
S1E164 - Essential Apple Podcast 164: Back from the dead
Recorded 23rd February 2020 After two weeks “down and out” due to my MacBook Pro charger unexpectedly failing on me literally a couple of hours before the recording time on the 9th (and the replacement I ordered failing to show in...
02.04.2020
S1E163 - Essential Apple Podcast 163: A Decade of iPad
Recorded 2nd February 2020 This week Nick and Jim join me as we ponder a decade of iPad, gasp at Apple’s awe inspiring revenues, consider whether Jony jumped ship or got pushed overboard, wonder if subscriptions are a viable long term...
01.29.2020
S1E162 - Essential Apple Podcast 162: Happy Birthday Macintosh & Other Amazing Tales
Recorded 26th January 2020 This week the Macintosh turned 36, Apple started removing Flash from Safari, Google say some of Apple’s anti-tracking made things worse, and Uncle Tim said AR will “pervade our entire lives”. Meanwhile claims were made that Apple...
01.21.2020
S1E161 - Essential Apple Podcast 161: Slip Sliding Away with FotoMagico
Recorded 19th January 2020 the inventor of the laser printer, passed away, Apple discovered their Smart Battery Cases are maybe not so smart, and Windows 7 went out to pasture. I am joined by Nick Riley and guest Oliver Breidenbach of...
01.01.2020
S1E160 - Essential Apple Podcast 160: A New Year’s Ramble
Recorded 29th December 2019 I am joined by Nick Riley and James Ormiston (MacJim) and with no real news as such we just have a ramble around some things that come to mind as we chat. GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Listeners of this show...
12.27.2019
S1E159 - Essential Apple Podcast 159: Merry Christmas Everyone!
Recorded 22nd December 2019 Donny is (mostly) recovered from the ‘flu, MacJim braves another appearance and Suffolk Pete pitches in so we can have a “proper show”. Unsurprisingly news is thin on the ground on the whole with the blogs and...
12.18.2019
S1E158 - Essential Apple Podcast 158: Ever so lonely…
Recorded 16th December 2019 No one is available again so “ever so lonely” Simon goes for a short solo - not a lot going on anyway as the holidays are coming (holidays are coming, holidays are coming). Even so an Apple...
12.13.2019
S1E157 - Essential Apple Podcast 157: Simon does another solo show
Recorded 8th December 2019 Yes I’m back! And there is a slew of stuff to discuss, even if none of the stories are particularly “huge”. Just me this week so a shorter show than usual (Mark was going to come on...
11.30.2019
S1E156 - Essential Apple Podcast 156: MacJim saves the day
Recorded 24th November 2019 Yes - I know it is really really late... Work and life and stuff. Sorry. This week I feared I'd have to do another solo show as no one seemed to be available - but you were all...
11.23.2019
S1E155 - Essential Apple Podcast 155: A dunce’s cap for Simon and the show that got away
Recorded 19th November 2019 I's a dunce and did a show with Guy and Nick, but forgot to check it was recording. Sorry about that - instead you just get me mulling over what we discussed. Apple effectively soft launched the...
11.06.2019
S1E154 - Essential Apple Podcast 154: Tim, sort the Apple ID servers!
Recorded 3rd November 2019 If you’ve downloaded this episode expecting a Ghostery special I am afraid Pete Knowlton has had to postpone for family reasons. He promises to come on soon. Never mind, it has been one hell of a week,...
10.31.2019
S1E153 - Essential Apple Podcast 153: We broke the internet!
Recorded 27th October 2019 This show is dedicated to the memory of my friend Adrian who died unexpectedly on the 28th aged 64. RIP This week it’s Diwali (the festival of lights), there is more “not news” than news, Tim Cook talked...
10.21.2019
S1E152 - Essential Apple Podcast 152: Looking forward to Luminar 4 with Alex Tsepko
Recorded 20th October 2019 This week Apple said iOS 13 reached 50% adoption, Apple TV appeared on Roku, iPhoto finally reached the end of the road. Google told us why the Pixel 4 isn’t 5G, Adobe say Photoshop for iPad will...
10.16.2019
S1E151 - Essential Apple Podcast 151: DTP for amateurs
Recorded 13th October 2019 This week Catalina went public - kind of by night with no announcements or anything and surprisingly has bugs and traps for the unwary, who knew?. Simon moved immediately to the 15.1 beta because let’s face it...

What's The Essential Apple Podcast about?

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The Essential Apple Podcast episodes:

S1E245 - Essential Apple Podcast 245: Rarest Mac Accessory Ever?

S1E244 - Essential Apple Podcast 244: Fix it yourself?

S1E243 - Essential Apple Podcast 243: Can I do the twirling thing now?

S1E242 - Essential Apple Podcast 242: I want to ride my bicycle

S1E241 - Essential Apple Podcast 241: Monterey Day

S1E240 - Essential Apple Podcast 240: Off the leash!

S1E239 - Essential Apple Podcast 239: In Touch With Essential Apple

S1E238 - Essential Apple Podcast 238: OMG – What the hell is that?

S1E237 - Essential Apple Podcast 237: A Fireside Chat with Nick and Simon

S1E236 - Essential Apple Podcast 236: California Streaming...

Essential Apple Podcast Bonus: Photo organisation app Mylio, with David Vaskevitch

S1E235 - Essential Apple Podcast 235: Rock Down to Electric Avenue

S1E234 - Essential Apple Podcast 234: Apple car this year? No way!!!

S1E233 - Essential Apple Podcast 233: Around the Houses with Essential Apple

S1E232 - Essential Apple Podcast 232: Talking with Andy J

S1E231 - Essential Apple Podcast 231: Think of the children

S1E230 - Essential Apple Podcast 230: Yes… It's a Happy Mac Again! :D

S1E229 - Essential Apple Podcast 229: It's a dead Mac! :(

S1E228 - Essential Apple Podcast 228: Jim wraps a parcel and other tales

S1E227 - Essential Apple Podcast 227: Just because I could!

S1E226 - Essential Apple Podcast 226: More News than you’d think

S1E225 - Essential Apple Podcast 225: The boys are back

S1E224 - Essential Apple Podcast 224: Post WWDC Ruminations

S1E223 - Essential Apple Podcast 223: Pre WWDC Ponderings

S1E222 - Essential Apple Podcast 222: Browser Wars Part IV

S1E221 - Essential Apple Podcast 221: Epic, Music, Betas and Ads...

S1E220 - Essential Apple Podcast 220: Geekiest Essential Apple Ever

S1E219 - Essential Apple Podcast 219: Meandering Madness

S1E172 - Essential Apple Podcast 172: Apple’s Super iPhone SE 2020

S1E171 - Essential Apple Podcast 171: Apple & Google Sitting in a Tree

S1E170 - Essential Apple Podcast 170: Insane Sandwich

S1E169 - Essential Apple Podcast 169: LOCKDOWN!

S1E168 - Essential Apple Podcast 168: Working from home special

S1E167 - Essential Apple Podcast 167: Zoom & Enhance? Pixelmator says "Yes you can!"

S1E166 - Essential Apple Podcast 166: A show with no notes?

S1E165 - Essential Apple Podcast 165: Rampant speculation

S1E164 - Essential Apple Podcast 164: Back from the dead

S1E163 - Essential Apple Podcast 163: A Decade of iPad

S1E162 - Essential Apple Podcast 162: Happy Birthday Macintosh & Other Amazing Tales

S1E161 - Essential Apple Podcast 161: Slip Sliding Away with FotoMagico

S1E160 - Essential Apple Podcast 160: A New Year’s Ramble

S1E159 - Essential Apple Podcast 159: Merry Christmas Everyone!

S1E158 - Essential Apple Podcast 158: Ever so lonely…

S1E157 - Essential Apple Podcast 157: Simon does another solo show

S1E156 - Essential Apple Podcast 156: MacJim saves the day

S1E155 - Essential Apple Podcast 155: A dunce’s cap for Simon and the show that got away

S1E154 - Essential Apple Podcast 154: Tim, sort the Apple ID servers!

S1E153 - Essential Apple Podcast 153: We broke the internet!

S1E152 - Essential Apple Podcast 152: Looking forward to Luminar 4 with Alex Tsepko

S1E151 - Essential Apple Podcast 151: DTP for amateurs

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