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.
~ 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