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 replacing the iPhone in the future and a few other bits and pieces.

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Recorded 28th November 2021

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NICK RILEY

@spligosh on Twitter very occasionally.
Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots’ Let’s Talk Apple
Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube
Nick’s church stream videos – YouTube

APPLE

Apple delays support for storing your ID in the Wallet app until 2022 – 9to5Mac
Kuo: Apple plans to replace the iPhone with AR in 10 years – 9to5Mac
Russia demands foreign tech companies open offices in the country – Sky News
“Not currently available”: Turks cant buy iPhones after lira plunge – Reuters
Seiko WristMac, aka the ‘first Apple Watch,’ will look weird as hell on your wrist – Cult of Mac
- Seiko WristMac – the first Apple Watch in 1988 – up for auction – 9to5Mac
Helpful Mac app sends alerts when new Apple devices are in stock – Cult of Mac

TECHNOLOGY

BT to axe traditional landline phones sparking fears for millions of elderly – Daily Record
12ft – Hop any paywall – 12ft
Windows 11 could come to M1 Macs in the future – BGR

SECURITY & PRIVACY

GoDaddy discloses recent security breach that exposed 1.2 million accounts –Engadget
Huge fines and a ban on default passwords in new UK law – BBC News

WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS

The key combo to lock the screen is Control + Command + Q – I looked it up iin the Apple Menu (Duh!) Or as Alister pointed out press the Touch ID/Power Button

JUST A SNIPPET

For things that are not worth more than a flypast

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Whoosh cleaning products – Amazon

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