The Essential Apple Podcast
Episodes
S1E307 - Essential Apple Podcast 307: A Sad Loss
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ha...
S1E306 - Essential Apple 306: Liquid Glass & Shiny New Things
29 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Essential Apple Extra: Nemo Review of ThinkSound ov202w Wireless Over-Ear Headphones
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 comm...
S1E305 - Essential Apple Podcast 305: Penguins Enraged By Tariff Turmoil
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
S1E304 - Essential Apple Podcast 304: UK wants Spooks in iPhones
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 sil...
S1E303 - Essential Apple Podcast 303: Zombies, Zombies
16 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Essential Apple Podcast 303: Zombies, Zombies Well it is 2025! So guess what? The Essential Apple is back again, late as ever... anyway Nick and Simon...
S1E302 - Essential Apple Podcast 302: On Coffee & Raisins
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 M...
S1E301 - Essential Apple Podcast 301: We rise again!
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 u...
S1E300 - Essential Apple Podcast 300: Apple Intelligence
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This one is a bit late (nothing new there). Also I am sorry that the audio isn’t as good as normal - not sure what happened but there was a lot of c...
S1E299 - Essential Apple Podcast 299: Pre WWDC
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 c...