Episode 669

669: Ternus, Take the Wheel

More Apple-executive turnover, and the risks and upsides of leadership change.

December 11, 20252h 2m

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Show Notes

Pre-show: Casey has a giggle about central Virginia snow
Follow-up:
- Apple Fitness+ is doing better than the Mac Pro
  - Workout Buddy
  - Previously with Jay Blahnik
- More adventures with Cloudflare
  - jramskov’s observation
  - TLS Certificate lifetimes
  - Alternatively, GitHub Pages
  - Some thoughts from an anonymous Cloudflare employee
    - Workers
    - Pages
    - R2
    - KV
    - Durable Objects
  - Oops… we broke it
    - Landon’s observation
    - 5 December Outage
      - React.js vulnerability
- Say my name, Siri!
  - Siri response preferences (via Jonathan Gulbrandsen)
    - Screenshot
  - AirPods and Contacts (via Oren Idan)
  - We’re… uh… sorry. Our bad.
    - Sean Santry
    - Reid Sorenson
- iOS 26 rollout 📈
  - Underscore on 20 November
  - Underscore on 8 December
- Intel 🤝 Apple Commentary
- Gruber is… not a fan… of Alan Dye
  - Dye Was in Tim Cook’s Blind Spot
Apple’s revolving door keeps spinning
- An anonymous observation
- Gurman, 6 December
- Gurman, 8 December
- Gurman’s departing executive tracker image
Post-show:
- Messages conversation merging
- A feature request
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple Watch & Mac mini are no longer advertised as “carbon neutral”