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In order to be more environmentally friendly, we at the BBQ decided to combine our October and November Apple event wrap up shows. It is the podcasting equivalent of removing the charger plug from the box. Okay, seriously, we changed things up a bit and invited Greg Stilson on to talk about the new Macs and iPhones. Greg has launched a few products over the years, and we thought he could speak at longer length about what it takes to do that than J.J. and Joe could. Plus, he brings along the bonus of saying a bunch of new stuff that you have not heard from us on the many hours of wrap up shows we have done in the past. And to borrow an Apple turn of phrase, we think you re going to love it .

Here s a whole lot of links that we touched upon during our conversation.

Picking Apart Apple's "One More Thing" Announcements

Here's how to rewatch Apple's 'One More Thing' event

Here s everything Apple didn t announce at its November Mac event

Love or hate Apple silicon, this is just the beginning

The Inside Story of Apple's M1 Chip

How Intel lost Apple

Here's what you need to know about the first three Apple silicon Macs

Apple announces its first new laptop with its own chip instead of Intel s

The biggest difference between the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro is a fan

Apple M1 Chip Revolution: Apple Silicon for MacBooks and Mac Mini

Reasons to switch to Apple silicon right now and why you might want to wait

How Apple Silicon on a M1 Mac changes monitor support and what you can connect

New MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Still Have 720p Camera, But Apple Promises Better Quality From M1

Apple Silicon M1 Emulating x86 is Still Faster Than Every Other Mac in Single Core Benchmark

Parallels, VMWare confirm Apple M1 support amid silence from other virtualization companies

Microsoft: Office will be about 20 seconds slower initially on Apple Silicon, Rosetta 2

All the apps and games Apple promises for Arm-based Macs

There s a question mark hanging over Apple s Arm Macs

Sorry, but the new MacBook Air is not faster than 98% of PC laptops

iOS apps will run on Apple Silicon Macs, but major developers have already opted out of the Mac App Store

The New Features, Changes, Improvements, and Bugs in macOS 11 Big Sur for Blind and Low Vision Users

What's new in MacOS Big Sur in under 3 minutes

macOS 11.0 Big Sur: The Ars Technica review

macOS Big Sur: The MacStories Review

macOS Big Sur 11 top features the Mac gets a new UI, Control Center, 4K YouTube, & more

11 Things You Can Do in macOS Big Sur That You Couldn't Do Before

Don't bother trying to update to Big Sur if you have a 128GB Mac

macOS Big Sur launch appears to cause temporary slowdown in even non-Big Sur Macs

Does Apple really log every app you run? A technical look

Apple Responds to macOS Privacy Concerns, Explains Why Apps Were Slow to Launch

Update Apple explains and addresses Recent server outage reveals potential Mac privacy concerns

macOS Big Sur update is bricking some older MacBook Pros

Native Instruments warns macOS Big Sur can damage its music hardware

Big sur and recovery mode problem

What happened during the troubled Big Sur launch, and why Apple can't let it happen again

Your Computer Isn't Yours

Apple's remaking Mac computers, and it's taking control to do it

How to run Aperture, iPhoto, and older versions of iTunes on macOS Big Sur

Hands on: iPhone 12 Pro Max in the real world

The iPhone 12 Pro Max Is Entirely Too Much Phone, but It's So Good

iPhone 12 Pro Max It's all about that camera

iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12 Pro Max hands-on: How they compare with the 12 and 12 Pro

Hands-on: iPhone 12 mini versus iPhone 12 Pro Max design

First Impressions From New iPhone 12 mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max Owners

The iPhone 12 Pro: Why It Felt the Right Choice for Me, and Early Impressions

iPhone 12 - Unboxing and First Impressions

Review: The iPhone 12 mini is a lot of iPhone in a tiny package

iFixit shares first part of its small-bodied iPhone 12 mini teardown

iPhone 12 mini teardown shows what Apple shrank to make a tiny flagship

Apple Says Hearing Aid Sound Issues With iPhone 12 Models Will Be Fixed in Future Software Update

Fix coming for iPhone 12 MFi hearing aid static issues

Apple confirms iPhone 12 MagSafe problem what you need to know

iPhone 12 mini owners report unresponsive lock screens

Group SMS issues plague iPhone 12 upgraders

See what lidar can do on the iPhone 12 with this 3D-scanning app

Apple Adding Customizable People Detection Capability to LiDAR-Equipped iPhones and iPad Pro with Upcoming Releases of iOS 14.2 and iPadOS 14.2

How to tell which aspect of 5G you've connected to on iPhone 12

How to manually manage 5G to optimize for speed or battery life on iOS

How to force restart your iPhone 12 or iPhone 12 Pro

YouTubers can't stop destroying the iPhone 12

Brazil has by far the most expensive iPhone 12 in the world, at least for now

Apple TV app is now available for download on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5

We were deeply saddened to learn that friend of the show, Tom Dekker recently passed away from cancer. Tom s views on training and technology came from his ability to be kind and compassionate. And that is something that is in short supply these days. Here is our interview with Tom from 2015 s ACB Summer Convention coverage.

Also, we mourn the loss of Jeopardy host Alex Trebek who ended his bout with Pancreatic Cancer earlier this month. As J.J. notes during this episode, Jeopardy is one of the more Blind friendly game shows on T.V. today. Moreover, it was recently announced that the Contestant application process has been made more accessible to those who would like to test themselves against the Big Board .