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437: ‘A Naughty Citizen’, With Quinn Nelson
· 2 h 29 min
Episode 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.
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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.
Links in the notes 12
- https://notion.com/talkshow
- https://squarespace.com/talkshow
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnYLpA5kAbo
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1E-yfcKdUw&t=18s
- https://sparkmailapp.com/
- https://daringfireball.net/2020/01/the_ipad_awkwardly_turns_10
- https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/10/ipados-26-1-beta-brings-back-slide-over-adds-microphone-adjustments/
- https://www.pronotes.app
- https://smallest.app/notescmdr/
- https://daringfireball.net/2010/08/papermaster_damn_antenna
- https://daringfireball.net/search/papermaster
- https://ritholtz.com/2013/07/organizational-charts-of-amazon-apple-facebook-microsoft/
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