Material 227: Trope-ical Island

Andy is finally living the dream of stereo Google Home Mini nightstands, and Flo would appreciate it if you held back on the fire puns for a while. We'll talk about last week's Google employee town hall, WearOS's eventual resuscitation, and Google's neat Digital Wellbeing experiments.

Andy is finally living the dream of stereo Google Home Mini nightstands, and Flo would appreciate it if you held back on the fire puns for a while. We'll talk about last week's Google employee town hall, WearOS's eventual resuscitation, and Google's neat Digital Wellbeing experiments.

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Links and Show Notes:

~ 21:15: Google CEO, in a leaked video, says the company is ‘genuinely struggling’ with employee trust

Buzzfeed News also received leaks about last week’s meeting

~ 45:50: Trump immigration shakeup lowers DHS morale (The episode goes deep this week!)

~ 54:35: The Moto 360 smartwatch is back... well, sort of

Qualcomm is FINALLY working on a REAL update to the ancient CPU powering almost all previous WearOS watches

Google owner Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit

How Google buying Fitbit could be a win-win, even for Fitbit device owners (Correction: Kevin C. Tofel wrote this article for Stacey Higginbotham's website!)

~ 1:12:11: New Google “Digital Wellbeing” experiments include a paper phone

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