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 (podsearch.david-smith.org/shows/11).

Links:

• Quinn on YouTube:
• "The iPad's Software Problem Is Permanent (youtube.com/watch?v=bnYLpA5kAbo)".

• "Apple Is Falling Apart (On Purpose) (youtube.com/watch?v=e1E-yfcKdUw&t=18s)" (on executive shuffling).

• Spark (sparkmailapp.com) -- Quinn's email app of choice.

• Yours truly back in January 2020: "The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 (daringfireball.net/2020/01/the_ipad_awkwardly_…)".

• Slide Over was originally eliminated in iPadOS 26 but came back in 26.1 (sixcolors.com/post/2025/10/ipados-26-1-beta-br…).

• 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 (pronotes.app).

• NotesCmdr (smallest.app/notescmdr).

• Mark Papermaster (daringfireball.net/2010/08/papermaster_damn_an…), the hardware executive who took the fall (daringfireball.net/search/papermaster) for the iPhone 4 antenna saga.

• The classic cartoon from 2013: "Organizational Charts of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle (ritholtz.com/2013/07/organizational-charts-of-…)".

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.