iPad's tradeoff: no beach ball vs persistence

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.