Kara Swisher: Why did you pick Apple over say Comedy Central, where ratings obviously are a big deal?

Jon Stewart: They would let me do what I wanted. And it felt entrepreneurial in a way. And I also wanted to create this podcast. We wanted to try to create kind of a universe of information, where we were boosting some of these voices and figuring things out. It’s entrepreneurial, to some extent, but also within that, what Apple gets out of it: I’m not sure what they want out of a content company. I really don’t. I don’t know, you know, and in some ways we might be antithetical to their business model.

Kara Swisher: Honestly, I think Apple wants to sell iPhones. I think Amazon wants to sell toilet paper.

Jon Stewart: But that’s what I mean, that it may not be in their interests, to have a provocateur. But I do know, they’ve been incredibly supportive, and have given us the resources to do it. And when you think about it, success is not just about its impact in the world, it’s also about its impact on the people you work with.

Apple stoppte bereits in der letzten Woche alle Lieferungen in die russischen Verkaufskanäle; ihr Statement veröffentlichten sie erst vor zwei Tagen.

”We are deeply concerned about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and stand with all of the people who are suffering as a result of the violence. We are supporting humanitarian efforts, providing aid for the unfolding refugee crisis, and doing all we can to support our teams in the region.

We have taken a number of actions in response to the invasion. We have paused all product sales in Russia. Last week, we stopped all exports into our sales channel in the country. Apple Pay and other services have been limited. RT News and Sputnik News are no longer available for download from the App Store outside Russia. And we have disabled both traffic and live incidents in Apple Maps in Ukraine as a safety and precautionary measure for Ukrainian citizens.

We will continue to evaluate the situation and are in communication with relevant governments on the actions we are taking.

Fadell left Apple in November 2008, and founded Nest Labs in 2010. The personal animus between him and Forstall was famous within the company. The kernel of the widely-held but incorrect notion that Fadell backed the embedded Linux OS project for the iPhone starts and ends with their political rivalry within Apple. If the embedded Linux project had won out, Forstall — whose expertise and experience were entirely on the Mac OS X side, dating back to his days as an early employee at NeXT — likely would have been out of the picture for the phone project, and the iPhone’s software might well have fallen under Fadell’s purview. So: Fadell and Forstall were rivals, there was a bake-off between two projects to produce an OS for a phone, Forstall spearheaded one of them, ergo Fadell must have backed the other. Sounds good. And then that one throwaway paragraph in the 2011 Businessweek profile of Forstall said it was so, and a myth was born.

It even makes sense that if Fadell had championed the embedded Linux/iPod OS effort, that he’d downplay/retcon his role in hindsight, given how spectacularly successful the decision to base the iPhone OS on Mac OS X turned out to be.