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.

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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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