The Talk Show With John Gruber

437: ‘A Naughty Citizen’, With Quinn Nelson

Special guest Quinn Nelson returns for a two-topic holiday spectacular: the iPad in the wake of iPadOS 26, and Apple's executive changes as Tim Cook seemingly nears the end of his time as CEO. Sponsored by: Notion : The AI workspace where teams and AI agents get more done together. Squarespace : Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code talkshow . Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good . Links: Quinn on YouTube: " The iPad's Software Problem Is Permanent ". " Apple Is Falling Apart (On Purpose) " (on executive shuffling). Spark -- Quinn's email app of choice. Yours truly back in January 2020: " The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 ". Slide Over was originally eliminated in iPadOS 26 but came back in 26.1 . Apple Notes extension apps, available on the Mac because they're only possible on the Mac because the iPad and iPhone are baby computers: ProNotes . NotesCmdr . Mark Papermaster , the hardware executive who took the fall for the iPhone 4 antenna saga. The classic cartoon from 2013: " Organizational Charts of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle ". This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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