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Essential Apple Podcast 307: A Sad Loss

We start with the very sad news that Tim Roberton, founder of MyMac, podcasting pioneer, and mentor and enabler to many, many novices to podcasting has passed away, peacefully at home with his family after a short illness.
I am sure you will all join myself and Nick in sending our deepest sympathies to all of his family and friends everywhere.
After that Simon and Nick take their usual circuitous route through the “silly season” news they considered interesting enough and, as ever, some other stuff as well…
Sound is back to normal btw… don’t really know what fixed it, I just fiddled a bit and tested and the problem was gone (thankfully!)

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A Tribute to Tim Robertson

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I never met Tim, and I only “spoke” to him once or twice. And yet I knew all about him – his job, his hobbies, his cars, his love of music and of course his love for his family. How? From his amazing podcasts, where he would talk to his great friend David Cohen at great length about all of these things and many more. With heartfelt passion. He always loved to share his opinion yet respected others’ opinions even when they disagreed with his (but they were wrong!). 

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Essential Apple Podcast 306: Liquid Glass and other shiny new things

Simon and Nick are back, after a series of “Calendar Difficulties” and then the fact that before WWDC unless you are into all the speculation and rumours there isn’t a great deal really going on. So anyway here we are and here it all is Apple OS’s 26, Liquid Glass everywhere and a lot more besides. As ever we discuss all of that and more.
Sorry about my sound, something was making a horrible buzzing – I cleaned it up but if means my half of the recording is subpar. Will have to troubleshoot…

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Essential Apple Extra: Nemo Review of ThinkSound ov202w Wireless Over-Ear Headphones

No you’re not going mad, and yes there should have been a show by now! Unfortunately with Bank Holidays, and Nick’s Choir, and his Church Circuit commitments, and me being a bit unwell/under the weather it didn’t work out. Besides which, I can’t say there is a lot of news worth talking about to be honest! However, we will be back after WWDC to bring you all our thoughts on that – we promise.
Anyway this a little Extra to give you a little update and to let you listen to Nemo’s review of the excellent ThinkSound ov202w Wireless Over-Ear Headphones

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Essential Apple Podcast 305: Penguins Enraged By Tariff Turmoil

Simon and Nick are back, a week late because Simon forgot what date it was! Nick’s trusty microphone then decided to die completely, so he sounds a little different as he had to fall back on his headset, and the master recording crashed and deleted itself before Simon could save it, so this is the Piezo backup recording, which is perfectly OK but doesn’t have all the Audio Hijack niceness.
Anyway in a month that saw new Apple Macs, and iPads, and Tariff Tomfoolery and much more the boys decide to talk about Simon ordering a 16e, and plastic eating mealworms, amongst other things!!!

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Essential Apple Podcast 304: UK wants Spooks in iPhones

Obscenely late putting this one up – Sorry!
Also, yes I know it should be iCloud in the title but that typeface has no lowercase, and it looked silly all in capitals, don’t @ me!
Anyway, Simon and Nick got together to look at the news and the biggest things at the time were the iPhone 16e and the UK’s disgraceful and abhorrent attempt to force a backdoor into iCloud not only for UK citizens but everyone, everywhere. Simon and Nick chat over those and a several other things (as ever).

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Essential Apple Podcast 302: On Coffee & Raisins

On a week where Florida got mauled by Milton, Elon unveiled a CyberTaxi and what looked like humanoid robots, Russians on YouTube unboxed alleged M4 MacBook Pros and AAA Gaming comes to Apple Silicon (sort of) Simon and Nick get together to talk about that, and lots more…

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Essential Apple Podcast 301: We rise again!

Eventually we return – after illness, a bad bout of depression followed by Summer ennui and a lack of real stories Simon and Nick rise again like an unwanted Phoenix to return to your Podcast feed… A few thoughts on a solid if not overly inspired Glowtime and a lot of rambling “catch up” conversation… Welcome back to the world of the EAP!

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Essential Apple Podcast 300: Apple Intelligence

I am sorry that the audio isn’t as good as normal – not sure what happened but there was a lot of crackling and some sort of stuttering/drop out. I have done my best to clean it up as best I can.
Anyway, with all that said Nick and I got together to talk about what we thought of the WWDC announcements, Apple Intelligence and more.

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Essential Apple Podcast 299: Pre WWDC

WWDC is tomorrow, so Simon does a quick solo show with his pre show thoughts. Also Nemo is back to review a couple of portable Bluetooth speakers he crowns as his “best ever” so if nothing else listen for that!!!

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Essential Apple Podcast 298: Duck Down!

Nick visits Everything Electric, the Duck is downed, Apple buys all the 2nm, explains (sort of) what went wrong with the “deleted” photos, ICQ is shutting down, and a 1994 PowerBook rises from the grave… All this and more on this week’s Essential Apple!

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Essential Apple Podcast 297: iPads and other things

Another week, another show, and Simon and Nick consider do iPad Pros need to do more? Should Apple perhaps differentiate the Pros with their own OS? Also Apple announce a slew of new accessibility features, and are sorry that the “Crush” ad upset some people…

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Essential Apple Podcast 296: Yeah – M4 Baby!

So Apple had an event… and unsurprisingly it was about iPads, and how! Also the rumoured M4 arrived (in a bit of a change of habit for Apple and how they usually do these things). Nick and Simon take a look at what was what, and have their tuppence worth of say (that’s 2c to those of you who don’t understand “old money” LSD, that’s Pounds, Shillings and Pence people, not an hallucinogenic).

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Essential Apple Podcast 295: TikTok is on the Clock

Late again, really must do better – but this is what we thought might come out of the Let Loose event which was due in a couple of days when we recorded this, and as ever plenty of other stuff from down the rabbit warren…

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