227: Trope-ical Island
Andy is finally living the dream of stereo Google Home Mini nightstands. We'll talk about last week's Google employee town hall, WearOS's eventual resuscitation, and Google's Digital Wellbeing experiments.
Material · Andy Ihnatko and Florence Ion
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Show Notes
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
~ 45:50: Trump immigration shakeup lowers DHS morale (The episode goes deep this week!)
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