The Essential Apple Show

Recorded 25th November 2018 This week was of course Thanksgiving in the US, so naturally almost all the news was filled with Black Friday/Cyber Monday stuff (and I note that “Black Friday” now starts almost a week before and runs on for up to two weeks after the nominal date). Much more importantly though Mark and I are joined by Karl Madden of the Mac & Forth Show (and a keen Ferrite user) and Canis of Wooji Juice the makers of Ferrite Recording Studio. Listeners of this show can claim $10 off purchases of Luminar and/or Aurora HD 2019 with discount code EssentialApple (If you buy Luminar 2018 you’ll get all updates for free. Learn more (https://skylum.com/blog/new-luminar-with-libraries-no-paid-upgrades-and-more).) We have a two Licenses for BeLight Live Home 3D to give away... 1x iOS and 1x Mac. Email the show on essentialapple@sudomail.com with the phrase I give out in the show. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! We can now also be found on Spotify, Soundcloud and even YouTube. On this week’s show: CANIS Ferrite Recording Studio and more @wooji on Twitter Ferrite tutorials on YouTube Vector with Rene Ritchie 044: Ferrite Recording Studio with Canis and Jason Snell iPad Pros 34: Ferrite Recording Studio 2 with Canis Hexterity KARL MADDEN Host of the Mac & Forth Show MARK CHAPPELL @Oceanspeed on Twitter and occasionally puts Essential Apple related stuff on YouTube APPLE Apple’s new iPad Pro seems to bend pretty easily – The Verge Pietro from the Slack sends us a more humourous take on the whole Bendgate II theme YouTube BLACK FRIDAY/CYBER MONDAY Deals that might still be active when you hear this: Listeners of this show can claim $10 off purchases of Luminar and/or Aurora HD 2019 with discount code EssentialApple (If you buy Luminar 2018 you’ll get all 2019 updates for free. Learn more.) While software companies typically roll out paid updates every year, there will be no paid updates for Luminar until late 2019 at the earliest. From Libraries to innovative new editing tools, every monumental advance and every new feature will be provided as free updates for Luminar 2018 users. This is a reflection of how much we value our customers, and how confident we are in the incredible value of the features we've got coming! WORTH-A-CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Paintcode Nemo’s Hardware Store (52:57) Spigen Tempered Glass Screen Protector (2 Packs) Designed for Apple iPhone – Amazon: iPhone X or Xs $13 US £10 UK iPhone Xr $13 US £10 UK iPhone Xs Max $13 US £10 UK TripleLite 180° Wide Beam Flashlight - 420 Lumens Amazon $30 US £18 UK Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

A couple of interviews I recorded recently that for a variety of reasons haven't made it into a "normal" show. Adobe Elements give us the lowdown on the latest releases for 2019 and BeLight Software (makers of Swift Publisher, ArtText, Live Home 3D and more) tell us about their products. Enjoy! Essential Apple Recommended Services: 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – Get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99US / £2.50UK per month thereafter... ProtonMail – End to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Fake Name Generator – So much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – Free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Everyone should have a font manager... I really do believe that. So I highly recommend FontBase — All platforms. Professional features. Beautiful UI. Totally free. FontBase is the font manager of the new generation, built by designers, for designers. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Recorded 18th November 2018 This week news (at least news that interested us much) was a bit thin on the ground so we were very happy to be joined by Andrius Gailiunas of Pixelmator to talk about Pixelmator Pro, the current beta, why the Pro verison is the future and why, for now, there isn't an iPad version on the horizon. DONT FORGET THE JOE KISSELL OFFER... 30% OFF any Take Control purchase before November 30th with this link 30% Off or use the code ESSENTIALAPPLE at checkout. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! We can now also be found on Spotify, Soundcloud and even YouTube. Essential Apple Recommended Services: 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – Get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99US / £2.50UK per month thereafter... ProtonMail – End to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Fake Name Generator – So much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – Free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Everyone should have a font manager... I really do believe that. So I highly recommend FontBase — All platforms. Professional features. Beautiful UI. Totally free. FontBase is the font manager of the new generation, built by designers, for designers. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. On this week's show: ANDRIUS GAILIUNAS @GoAndrius on Twitter but you'd be better off to use @Pixelmator on Twitter Visit Pixelmator Site MARK CHAPPELL @Oceanspeed on Twitter and occasionally puts Essential Apple related stuff on YouTube WORTH-A-CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Tenda Nova MW3 2 pack $60 US £50 UK Tech Advisor Review Black Friday bundle that may be useful - 9 MacOS including Acorn and Gemini2 for $25 – Apple World Today Nemo’s Hardware Store (51.09) Catalyst Impact Cases for iPhone For Xr Amazon - £40 UK $40 US For Xs Max Amazon - £50 UK $50 US For X and Xs Amazon - £40 UK $40 US Limitless Innnovations Chargehub V2 $30 Direct Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Recorded 11th November 2018 This week Apple launched a pair of repair programs for some iPhone X and 13-inch MacBook Pro models, reviewers have been going at the new Apple hardware with in depth reviews, and Uncle Tim promised money for the wildfires in Califonia. Meanwhile Samsung showed off a face to face folding screen (just about) and Xiaomi are coming to the UK hoping to take on Apple and Samsung. I am joined by guest Jeff Gamet formerly of the Mac Observer and now with Smile Software, and Mark and I are keen to get the full story on that from the horse's mouth; as well as to discuss all the other news. DONT FORGET THE JOE KISSELL OFFER... 30% OFF any Take Control purchase before November 30th with this link 30% Off or use the code ESSENTIALAPPLE at checkout. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! We can now also be found on Spotify, Soundcloud and even YouTube. Essential Apple Recommended Services: 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – Get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99US / £2.50UK per month thereafter... ProtonMail – End to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Fake Name Generator – So much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – Free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Everyone should have a font manager... I really do believe that. So I highly recommend FontBase — All platforms. Professional features. Beautiful UI. Totally free. FontBase is the font manager of the new generation, built by designers, for designers. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. On this week's show: JEFF GAMET @jgamet pretty much everywhere Former Managing Editor at The Mac Observer and co-host of the Apple Context Machine Podcast. Now at Smile Software makers of PDFpen and TextExpander MARK CHAPPELL @Oceanspeed on Twitter Occasionally puts Essential Apple related stuff on YouTube APPLE Apple launched a pair of repair programs for some iPhone X and 13-inch MacBook Pro models – The Verge What Reviewers Are Saying About the New Apple iPad Pro – Barron's 2018 iPad Pro review: “What’s a computer?” – Ars Technica Apple Mac mini (2018) review: The little Mac that could – ZDNet Review: 2018 Mac mini – Apple’s most versatile Mac 9to5 Mac MacBook Air 2018: hands-on with Apple’s new ultra-thin laptop – The Verge MacBook Air review: Out with the old and in with the new, for better or worse – MacWorld iPhone Xr is a pretty good deal in historical terms – Reddit Apple's Tim Cook promises donations for latest California wildfires – Apple Insider IN THE NEWS Apple and Amazon strike deal to directly sell more products, including iPhone, iPad and Beats – The Apple Post TECHNOLOGY Samsung folding smartphone revealed to developers – BBC News It's not a phone it is a demo unit showing the folding screen Xiaomi arrives in the UK looking to take on Samsung and Apple – The Independent Chinese phone firm Xiaomi launches first product in the UK and hopes to tempt you away from Apple or Samsung — Metro JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast AI news anchor makes debut in China – NPR WORTH-A-CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Throwboy Iconic Apple Pillows – Throwboy Prompt2 from Panic Nemo’s Hardware Store (40.21) Grovemade Walnut iPhone Case $99 US Direct Grovemade Wireless Charging Pad (Light) $79 US Direc

Recorded 4th November 2018 This week of course Apple had a keynote event in New York and revealed a host of items, some expected (iPad), some only hoped for (Mac Minis and MacBook Airs)... Also they had an earnings call - not something we tend to get overly wrapped up in on this show but there were a couple of points of interest. Unsrprisingly there wasn't really much other news of note to us but even so we run extra long... DONT FORGET THE JOE KISSELL OFFER... 30% OFF any Take Control purchase before November 30th with this link 30% Off or use the code ESSENTIALAPPLE at checkout. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! We can now also be found on Spotify, Soundcloud and even YouTube. Essential Apple Recommended Services: 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – Get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99US / £2.50UK per month thereafter... ProtonMail – End to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Fake Name Generator – So much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – Free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Everyone should have a font manager... I really do believe that. So I highly recommend FontBase — All platforms. Professional features. Beautiful UI. Totally free. FontBase is the font manager of the new generation, built by designers, for designers. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. On this week's show: WEYHAN NG On Twitter as @weyhan On GitHub as weyhan iOS Developer who goes by handle the Eccentric iOS developer Developer / Maintainer of the iOS Compo writing app MARK CHAPPELL @Oceanspeed on Twitter and occasionally puts Essential Apple related stuff on YouTube NICK RILEY @spligosh on Twitter, sometimes on the Let's Talk Apple Podcast TALKING POINTS Hardware New in MacBook Air Retina Display Touch ID 100% Recycled Aluminium 35% Post Consumer recycled plastic New in Mac mini SSD 4-6 Core CPU Same port strategy Space Gray New in iPad Pro Formfactor USB-C vs Lightning New Pencil New Smart Keyboard case Configuration Apple downplay Intel Intel vs Apple's S-series CPU Intel remains supplier for modem chip ARM as bargaining chip against Intel ARM Macs Explain the difference between Apple's OS variants Machine code Endian UI Paradigm SDK Apple's OS strategy around ARM Macs Keep current strategy OS unification Redrawing lines APPLE EVENT Apple Special Event. October 30, 2018. From the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Howard Gilman Opera House. “Here's what we announced” – Apple Apple unveiled its new iPad Pro, Pencil and MacBook at event stressing 'creativity' – ABC News APPLE EARNINGS Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results – Apple Apple Financial Results - Q4 2018 Listen to streaming audio from the conference call, held on November 1, 2018 – Apple Apple tumbles 7% after earnings on light guidance – CNBC APPLE Jony Ive interview: Apple design guru on how he created the new iPad – and the philosophy behind it – The Independent IN THE NEWS Tomorrow's World to return for one-off show – BBC News TECHNOLOGY Royole's bendy-screen FlexPai phone unveiled in China – BBC News And on BGR SECURITY TunnelBear Completes 2nd Annual Independent Security Audit – TunnelBear Blog Yes, you should update your iPhone to iOS 12.1, but its lock screen is still unsafe – HOT for Security Turn off Siri via the lock screen

Recorded 31st October 2018 In this very special edition of the podcast I am delighted and honoured to have the company of Tim Bajarin of Creative Strategies and Techpinions site and podcast. On this show TIM BAJARIN Tim is recognised as one of the leading industry consultants, analysts and futurists, covering the field of personal computers and consumer technology. His writing and analysis has been on the forefront of the digital revolution and he was one of the first analysts to cover the personal computer industry. He is credited with predicting the desktop publishing revolution three years before it reached the market and also multimedia. He is considered one of the leading experts in the field of technology adoption life cycles. He has been with Creative Strategies since 1981 and has served as a consultant to most of the leading hardware and software vendors in the industry. Creative Strategies has been around since 1969 and was one of the original market research firms in Silicon Valley. Tim joined as their first PC analyst and took the whole company into tech market research and industry analysis. They don't work for any particular company but with almost all of them. They help them understand market trends, strategic implications, competition landscape, future markets, analysis of product or market strategy, and a whole host of other things that their expertise is helpful for with a specific company or product need. They don't do much forecasting but focus more on digging into the markets they study and packaging that in a way clients find useful for decision making. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! We can now also be found on Spotify, Soundcloud and even YouTube. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Recorded 21st October 2018 This week Tim Cook said Bloomberg should retract their Chinese Hack story. Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, passed away. Adobe had their Max Conference and announced Photoshop for iPad and more. But Mark and Simon aren't interested in that stuff! No, we have the highly respected Jeff Carlson with us and we are only interested what he has to say, and the biggest of stories – #Bagelgate and Apple sending out invites to the “There's more in the making” event scheduled for 30th October. DONT FORGET THE JOE KISSELL OFFER... 30% any Take Control purchase before November 30th with this link 30% Off or use the code ESSENTIALAPPLE at checkout. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! We can now also be found on Spotify, Soundcloud and even YouTube. Essential Apple Recommended Services: 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – Get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99US / £2.50UK per month thereafter... ProtonMail – End to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Fake Name Generator – So much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – Free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Everyone should have a font manager... I really do believe that. So I highly recommend FontBase — All platforms. Professional features. Beautiful UI. Totally free. FontBase is the font manager of the new generation, built by designers, for designers. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. On this week's show: JEFF CARLSON Jeff Carlson is the author of several Take Control books, such as Take Control of Your Digital Photos and Take Control of Your Digital Storage, and regularly writes for publications such as DPReview and Macworld. He also co-hosts the weekly podcast PhotoActive. Find him at jeffcarlson.com (http://jeffcarlson.com/) or on Twitter and Instagram at @jeffcarlson. MARK CHAPPELL @Oceanspeed on Twitter and occasionally puts Essential Apple related stuff on YouTube APPLE Apple announce “there's more in the making” special event for October 30th – The Loop Apple solves #bagelgate with a more appetizing bagel emoji – 9to5 Mac Donny to make a Bagel Bakery Sticker Set... and maybe a Pizza Set too Discussion of Bagels leads to deep dive into Salt Beef and Corned Beef in the Slack! WORTH-A-CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Lexar launches new JumpDrive Fingerprint secure USB 3.0 flash drives with 256-bit encryption – 9to5 Mac Tenda Nova MW3-2 Whole Home Mesh Wi-Fi System – Amazon £70 UK or $70 US Nemo’s Hardware Store No Store this week as John is taking a short vacation Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by donating

Recorded 14th October 2018 This week the Bloomberg story rumbled on, but Donny and I decide to just summarise that and concentrate on things like the Apple 11% drop in Q3 Sales. Alleged info on the upcoming iPad Pro. Apple's TV streaming plans and a wireless charger that intrigues both of us but we just think is too good to be true. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! DONT FORGET THE JOE KISSELL OFFER... 30% any Take Control purchase before November 30th with this link 30% Off or use the code ESSENTIALAPPLE at checkout. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! We can now also be found on Spotify, Soundcloud and even YouTube. Essential Apple Recommended Services: 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – Get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99US / £2.50UK per month thereafter... ProtonMail – End to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Fake Name Generator – So much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – Free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Everyone should have a font manager... I really do believe that. So I highly recommend FontBase — All platforms. Professional features. Beautiful UI. Totally free. FontBase is the font manager of the new generation, built by designers, for designers. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. On this week's show: DONNY YANKELLOW @rtteachr on Twitter Find his stuff in iBooks, a load of sticker packs in the App Store and DesignBundles.net (http://designbundles.net/) as Skrbly (Sale extended till the 27th now...) APPLE Apple donates another $1m, this time to earthquake and tsunami relief in Indonesia – 9to5 Mac Apple to Donate to Hurricane Michael Relief Efforts – Mac Rumors Google also pitched in $1million – CNet Mac shipments fall 11% in Q3 as customers await updates to aging lineup, IDC says – 9to5 Mac iPad Pro Face ID details, 4K HDR video over USB-C, AirPods-like Apple Pencil 2 pairing, more – 9to5 Mac TSMC to exclusively manufacture Apple A13 chip for next year’s iPhone and iPad models – 9to5 Mac Apple's Cook Visits World's Hottest Startup During Beijing Trip – Bloomberg Apple's Upcoming Video-Streaming Service Could Possibly Be Free – Motley Fool Apple plans to give away original content for free to device owners as part of new digital TV strategy – CNBC Man Wearing Apple Maps Backpack Surveying San Francisco on Foot – Mac Rumors SECURITY Dr Andy Yen on his soapbox again... and rightly so I might say CPO Magazine Apple to Australia: “This is no time to weaken encryption” – Ars Technica Apple rebukes Australia’s “dangerously ambiguous” anti-encryption bill – TechCrunch Apple fires back at Australian encryption bill – Engadget Supply Chain Security is the Whole Enchilada, But Who’s Willing to Pay for It? – Krebs On Security 1Password for Mac disables auto-submit feature as macOS Mojave boosts security – 9to5 Mac TECHNOLOGY Internet of Terribly Troublesome Insecure Things... A Future Where Everything Becomes a Computer Is as Creepy as You Feared – NY Times Pocket Plans to Turn Your Never-Ending News Reading List Into a Podcast – Fortune Just minutes after we finished recording @MacJim posted this in the Slack “Okay, I’ve just used the Pocket voice reader to listen

Recorded 7th October 2018 Well that was a week that was (as they say). Indonesia can't catch a break as the earthquake not only caused a deadly tsunami but set off a volcanic eruption. Haiti was struck with an earthquake and South Korea by a typhoon. As if that wasn't enough Bloomberg came out with a scary story about a hardware hack that has turned into a massive mystery. Microsoft pulled their Windows 10 update, Simon discovered a big downside to Apple News on Mac and a data aggregator's stash containing 212 million contact listings as well as nine billion data points related to companies and organisations wasn't secured! DONT FORGET THE JOE KISSELL OFFER... 30% any Take Control purchase before November 30th with this link 30% Off or use the code ESSENTIALAPPLE at checkout. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! We can now also be found on Spotify, Soundcloud and even YouTube. Essential Apple Recommended Services: 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – Get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99US / £2.50UK per month thereafter... ProtonMail – End to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Fake Name Generator – So much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – Free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Everyone should have a font manager... I really do believe that. So I highly recommend FontBase — All platforms. Professional features. Beautiful UI. Totally free. FontBase is the font manager of the new generation, built by designers, for designers. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. On this week's show: SPLIGOSH @Spligosh on Twitter, and an occasional guest on Bart Buschotts' Let's Talk Apple THE BIG CHINESE HACK STORY The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies – Bloomberg Statements From Amazon, Apple, Supermicro, and the Chinese Government – Bloomberg Bloomberg stands by Chinese chip story as Apple, Amazon ratchet up denials – Ars Technica Apple Insiders Say Nobody Internally Knows What’s Going On With Bloomberg’s China Hack Story – BuzzFeed Department of Homeland Security Has 'No Reason to Doubt' Apple's Denial of Supply Chain Compromise – MacRumors UK cyber security agency backs Apple and Amazon denials over Chinese hacking – The Telegraph Simon's personal take: someone is totally off whack here... Personally I think the Bloomberg story smacks of FUD... Not one named source, not one “on the record” comment, not one piece of hard evidence. The whole thing smacks of Manchurian Candidate, reds under the bed, cold war era, conspiracy hysteria aimed at giving us all the heeby jeebies about China to me.. I don't believe such a hardware hack is impossible, but it would be highly difficult to do and would have to be snuck in to the design very very early (you can't just plug such a thing into a board like a piece of Lego). I am pretty sure that there would be much easier ways to exfiltrate data than via this almost James Bondian sort of plot. Security researcher named in China spy chip story voices doubts – Cult of Mac APPLE Well I have discovered a massive downside to Apple News on the Mac… Any links that are from Apple News only open in Apple News… and there seems to be no way to get to the original content - unlike on iOS where you can share out to Safari… past

Recorded 30th September 2018 Sorry it's late - life and work kind of intervened... Also sorry about last week - neither Donny or I were feeling up to scratch so we decided that if we both felt ill it was best to just abandon it. Meanwhile the stories kept piling up - an awful lot of it “security and privacy' related to be honest. DONT FORGET THE JOE KISSELL OFFER... 30% any Take Control purchase before November 30th with this link 30% Off or use the code ESSENTIALAPPLE at checkout. And just quick reminder that Indonesia was struck with a 7.7 earthquake resulting in a massive Tsunami... Please consider donating to a reputable aid agency if you can. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! We can now also be found on Spotify, Soundcloud and even YouTube. Essential Apple Recommended Services: 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – Get up to 9 free “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. ProtonMail – End to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Fake Name Generator – So much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – Free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Everyone should have a font manager... I really do believe that. So I highly recommend FontBase — All platforms. Professional features. Beautiful UI. Totally free. FontBase is the font manager of the new generation, built by designers, for designers. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. **On this week’s show: SPLIGOSH @Spligosh on Twitter, and an occasional guest on Bart Buschotts' Let's Talk Apple MARK CHAPPELL @oceanspeed, occasionally puts Essential Apple videos on YouTube which isn't the same as the Podcast Channel APPLE What cardiologists think about the Apple Watch’s heart-tracking feature – The Washington Post News: Doctors raising concerns that Apple Watch ECG feature could lead to needless anxiety – iLounge THIS ONE GAVE US A LAUGH Apple Watch fall detection might get you arrested – Cult of Mac The first iOS 12.1 public beta with Group FaceTime is available right now - BGR Apple is quietly giving people 'trust scores' based on their iPhone data - The Independent Apple iOS 12 Has A Serious Problem - Forbes Magazine — the Slack wasn't convinced by this and nor was I but... Some iPhone X users report major display color and contrast changes in iOS 12: Digital Photography Review If you are sad your Mac is just a touch too old for Mojave and feel brave…. Mojave Patcher for officially unsupported Macs Mojave 'still full of security holes' despite promises of tougher protections – IT Pro SECURITY For Over A Month Hackers Stole Credit Card Data From New Egg Customers As They Made Purchases - Joseph Steinberg Mobile Privacy: What Do Your Apps Know About You? – Symantec How to protect your phone or computer when crossing borders - ProtonMail Blog A New California Bill Would Require Better Passwords for Internet of Things Devices - Slate California just became the first state with an Internet of Things cybersecurity law — The Verge With Apple and now Microsoft taking a vocal leadership position on human rights and privacy, it seems that this may become table stakes going forward for other companies. – Ben Bajarin Facebook security breach: Up to 50m accounts attacked - BBC News The Facebook Security Meltdown Exposes Way More Sites Than Facebook - Wired NOTE THE COMMENTS ON SINGLE SIGN IN DANGERS F

Recorded 16th September 2018 Well this week was of course the Apple event... 3 new iPhones and a new Apple Watch. I think many of us were a touch disappointed that was “all” there was. Does this mean another event later for some iPads and/or Macs? Who knows? I am joined once again by Donny and we talk about what we made of it... and a few other stories. Meanwhile Hurricane Florence flooded parts of the US, a Category 5 Typhoon hammered the Philippines and is bearing down on Hong Kong and China... Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! We can now also be found on Spotify, Soundcloud and even YouTube. Essential Apple Recommended Services: 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – Get up to 9 free “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. ProtonMail – End to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Fake Name Generator – So much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – Free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Everyone should have a font manager... I really do believe that. So I highly recommend FontBase — All platforms. Professional features. Beautiful UI. Totally free. FontBase is the font manager of the new generation, built by designers, for designers. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. On this week’s show: DONNY YANKELLOW @rtteachr on Twitter, has books on iBooks, lots of sticker packs in the App Store including the NEW Puzzle Mask, also is Skrbly on DesignBundles.net (http://designbundles.net/) APPLE The big “Gather Round” event and our reactions... Why the iPhone XR isn’t coming out until October – The Verge Thoughts and Observations on Apple’s iPhone XS/XR and Series 4 Apple Watch Introductory Event – Daring Fireball Apple pledges $1M to Red Cross as Hurricane Florence makes landfall – Apple Insider Apple Is Deleting Bought Films From iTunes Accounts - And Don't Expect A Refund — Forbes Magazine No, Apple didn't delete that guy's movies. Here's what really happened – CNet Follow up to the movies disappearing from iTunes accounts – Slashfilm Apple loses marketshare but still makes the most money – Cult of Mac Apple Releases Golden Master Version of iOS 12 Shortcuts App – MacRumors SECURITY Apple Has Started Paying Hackers for iPhone Exploits – Motherboard Firmware weakness in modern laptops exposes encryption keys – Global Banking & Finance Review Andy Yen: Think your email's private? Think again– TED Defending Privacy: An Interview with Andy Yen of ProtonMail – Medium TECHNOLOGY US carriers create single sign-on service that could end passwords – Engadget Microsoft Windows U-turn removes warning about installing Chrome, Firefox – CNet WORTH-A-CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Moment releases first Mfi battery case for the iPhone X, just as it’s being discontinued – The Verge Message from Joe Kissell for all Essential Apple listeners – "I’ve created a coupon code (ESSENTIALAPPLE) that’s good for 30% off any purchase from us, and valid through November 30. Listeners can enter that code manually at checkout, or they can use this link, which has the coupon code built in: 30% Off Nemo’s Hardware Store (23:00) Miggo Pictar One - A powerful smartphone camera-grip - $100 US / $110 US Direct. Same prices on Amazon and from £80 UK on Amazon UK Pictar One product overview video Miggo Splat 3N1 Flexible Tripod - $25 US direct and $20 US or £19 UK on Amazon Bla

Recorded 9th September 2018 This week I am joined by regular co-host Donny Yankellow to yet again try and avoid all the rumours and leakers as we approach the big event. But of course no one can have missed the 9to5 Mac “scoop” that has revealed at least two iPhones and the look of the new Apple watch. With speculation rife we try to find some other stories to talk about. A shorter than usual show unsurprisingly as we all await the big reveals (and hope 9 to 5 Mac haven't ruined all the fun). Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! We can now also be found on Spotify, Soundcloud and even YouTube. Essential Apple Recommended Services: 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – Get up to 9 free “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. ProtonMail – End to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Fake Name Generator – So much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – Free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. DONNY YANKELLOW @rtteachr - on iBooks, lots of sticker packs in the App Store including the NEW Qberz and Qberz Ninja Edition, Skrbly on DesignBundles.net (http://designbundles.net/) APPLE The big “Gather Round” event and How To Live Stream September 12 iPhone Xs Keynote On iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, More – Redmond Pie 9 to 5 Mac reveal iPhones and Apple Watch and more – 9to5 Mac Apple Music's new Top 100 charts cover the entire planet – Mashable Alex Jones' Infowars banned from Apple App Store permanently – CNET European Apple Patent Describes a Driver Accessing and Starting a Vehicle with an iPhone or Apple Watch – Patently Apple Viper Smart Start Apple Is Working on a Global Portal for Law Enforcement Requests – The Verge Logitech Crayon for iPad to reach general public on Sept. 12 – Apple Insider SECURITY Apple allowed spyware posing as anti-malware tool into its Mac App Store – Digital Trends Top Mac app steals your browsing history and sends it to China – Cult of Mac Mozilla changes its stance on website tracking, will now block data collection by default – IT Pro AnchorFree Issues First Transparency Report Highlighting Governments’ Requests for Information – Business Wire The Hotspot Shield report itself – Hotspot Shield US, UK, and other governments asks tech companies to build backdoors into encrypted devices – The Verge ‘Five Eyes’ nations hand tech giants encryption ultimatum – IT Pro Understanding international surveillance agreements: 5 Eyes, 9 Eyes, and 14 Eyes – ProtonVPN Blog TECHNOLOGY Carlsberg glues beer cans together becoming first brewery to abandon plastic rings – The Telegraph France cellphone ban takes effect as kids return to school without devices – USA Today IN THE NEWS MEPs vote next week on the dreaded Article 13 which would demand “copyright filters” on the internet... Harangue your MEPs to VOTE NO! – Visit Save Your Internet JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast New Slackers Denise, Mario, Martin, Nick, Pietro and Ron Nemo’s Hardware Store (23:34) RapidX X5 5-Port USB Car Charger for iOS and Android Devices – $25 Direct or Amazon $22.51–$25 US Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't

Recorded 2nd September 2018 This week I am joined by regular co-host Nick Riley, and guest Joe Kissell (of Take Control books). As ever we try to avoid all the pre 12th September event rumours and speculation and focus on things that happened this week. Including an Apple autonomous test car getting rear ended, Apple buying an AR glasses/lenses company, and women demanding that fitness apps and products have a “pregnancy mode”... Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! We can now also be found on Spotify, Soundcloud and even YouTube. Essential Apple Recommended Services: 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – Get up to 9 free “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. ProtonMail – End to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Fake Name Generator – So much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – Free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. JOE KISSELL Author and Publisher Take Control Books NICK RILEY @Spligosh on Twitter, sometimes appears on Bart's Let's Talk Apple APPLE Apple Releases macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 Supplemental Update 2 for MacBook Pro (2018) – The Mac Observer Apple released a beta with an annoying alert and then one that fixed it – Techshout Apple announced the September event “Gather Round” – Apple Insider Apple self-driving test car gets rear-ended by a Nissan Leaf in first ever crash – The Verge The most popular Apple Watch probably isn't the model you'd expect – Cult of Mac Apple just bought an AR glasses company – Alphr Apple Will Require All Apps to Have a Privacy Policy – Fortune SECURITY If your mobile phone is running slowly or always losing battery, it might have been hacked to mine cryptocurrency – here's how to protect yourself – Business Insider TECHNOLOGY Women call for 'pregnancy' mode in fitness and health apps – The Independent Phones with bendable, flexible screens are closer than you think - CNet JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast Bundlehunt latest bundle $5 to unlock then select the apps you want at big discounts – Bundlhunt Like all bundles it's only any good if there is stuff you wan't - at least with this you get to build your own selection of as few or as many as you like WORTH-A-CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Celebrate Labor Day with the coolest paper airplane ever created – Mashable You Can Download Popular Reeder 3 App For iOS And Mac For Free Right Now ($15 Value) – Redmond Pie Affinity Publisher Beta is here – Serif Nemo’s Hardware Store (xx:xx) Labor Day holiday weekend means no hardware store this week. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by donating to

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Recorded 25th August 2018 This week I am joined once again by Mark. We do our best to avoid all the rumours and speculation about the upcoming (yet to be officially announced) Apple autumn event and exactly what hardware etc will be released to focus on “actual stories” but somehow we end up at Business Insider and Mark loses his cool over one of their stories... Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! We can now also be found on Spotify, Soundcloud and even YouTube. Essential Apple Recommended Services: 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – Get up to 9 free “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. ProtonMail – End to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Fake Name Generator – So much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – Free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. On this week’s show: MARK CHAPPELL Twitter @Oceanspeed and @essentialmac APPLE Apple donates $1M to Kerala flood relief efforts – Apple Insider Apple Abandoning Back to My Mac in Mojave – TidBITS Apple axes Back to My Mac in macOS Mojave – Apple Insider Apple could lose one of its highest-grossing iOS apps as Netflix looks to bypass iTunes billing – 9to5 Mac Techpinions Podcast on the subject – Techpinions Apps & developers hit by day-long Apple CloudKit outage – Apple Insider Apple will be making a mistake if it no longer offers a low-cost Mac Mini – 9to5 Mac You might have seen this on Twitter but Oliver Breidenbach is part of a roundtable talking “Has Apple abandoned professional Mac users?” – ZDNet SECURITY Airmail 3 Exploit Instantly Steals Info from Apple Users – Threatpost Apple removed Facebook’s Onavo from the App Store for gathering app data – TechCrunch Apple Forces Facebook VPN App Out of iOS Store for Stealing Users' Data – Hacker News 12 mistakes that can get your data hacked – and how to avoid them – ProtonVPN 7 most dangerous VPN security risks – VPN Pro Best Free VPN Services – VPN Pro TECHNOLOGY Surface Go running Windows 10 Home in S Mode – ZDNet MacJim's take: I went into John Lewis to have a look at the new Surface Go from Microsoft as it piqued my interest as a device to use on the go (sic) for editing images on a desktop editing software. I can say, it’s a really nice device to hold, light and as near as damn it the same as my iPad Pro in feel/size. Didn’t get to see it working as too many folk had tried to unlock it without the admin password... great price and size though_ In relation to last week's talk about ARM - can I point you to the Techpinions Podcast NVidia Turing, ARM CPUs, AMD Threadripper, Intel AI. (Sorry the sound quality on this one isn't great... have written to Tim Bajarin about it and he tells me something went wrong with the recording he wasn't aware of until later. I commiserated with him - it is a terrible blow when something like that happens. However it is well worth a listen) What a modern “car crash” looks like Twitter 5 myths about iPhone battery life you might mistakenly believe — and what you should do instead – Business Insider JUST A SNIPPET *For things that are not worth more than a flypast* Indiepaper, an open alternative to Instapaper and Pocket found via Cult of Mac WORTH-A-CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Add macOS Preference Panes to Your Dock For Quick Access – How to Geek Scott Wilsey po