MG Siegler returns to the show to discuss Apple’s announcement that Tim Cook is stepping aside (into the role of executive chairman) and John Ternus will become CEO.

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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.

Links:

• Apple Newsroom:
  • “Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman; John Ternus to become Apple CEO”.
  • “Johny Srouji named Apple’s Chief Hardware Officer”.
• MG, at Spyglass:
  • “A Cook’s Tour”.
  • “John Ternus’s Magic Show”.
• Yours truly:
  • “Another Day Has Come”.
  • “Time to Serve Some Delicious Claim Chowder Regarding the Cook-Ternus CEO Transition”.
  • “The New York Times Printed the Wrong Crossword Grid Last Sunday, and I Find That Timing Serendipitous”.
• Steven Levy:
  • “Apple’s Next CEO Needs to Launch a Killer AI Product” (paywall-busting Apple News+ link).
• 2008: “Joe Nocera Gets a Call From Steve Jobs”.
• 2010, regarding Mark Papermaster, whom Steve Jobs fired just weeks after the iPhone 4 antennagate press conference: “Papermaster and That Damn Antenna.”
• “Look at how many blueberries your muffin has, and how many mine has. Yours is falling apart. I have nothing.”

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