It's time for episode 340 of the Clockwise Podcast from Relay FM recorded Wednesday, April 1st, 2020.

Clockwise.

The tech podcast that yes, folks, is still only 30 minutes even on April 1st.

I am one of your co-hosts, Micah Sargent, and I am joined across the internet by my good pal, good bud,

and Dungeons and Dragons friend, Dan Morin. How you doing, Dan?

I'm doing okay, but you do realize that 30 minutes these days feels like a year.

That is a really good point. Yeah, I hadn't considered that. Well, I am happy that despite the fact that 30 Minutes

feels like a year, we do have two awesome guests. And to my left is newly indie. I have to do a little

bit of a gasp there. Newly and indie Renee Richie of YouTube podcast and everything else fame. Hello, Renee Richie. How the heck are you?

I am good, Mike Asarajun. It is so great to be with you and Dan and Leo today. Ah, to my left.

It's a young up-and-coming podcaster. You probably haven't heard of him. But if you do, you probably know him as the tech guy or the chief twit over a twit. It's Leo Laporte making his clockwise debut. Welcome, Leo. My clockwise

debut, that's amazing. I'm so excited about me. You're delighted to have you. I'm thrilled to be here. Thank you.

All righty, folks. Well, you know how this works. We've got four topics. We've got just 30 minutes, and I'm going to start things off with my question for you. So Fitbit has announced the new Fitbit

Charge 4. And I'm curious, given what features it does offer, which is in line with what Apple Watch has,

I think, I just want to know, do you think it can compete with

the stranglehold the Apple Watch has on the wearables market? Renee, we'll start with you.

I don't know what to make a Fitbit right now because they've been bought by Google. Google has

WearOS. Fitbit has its own operating system. Google has shown about as much

interest in actually making good wearable software as they have making good tablet software,

which doesn't instill a lot of confidence in me as a consumer. And while I desperately,

desperately want for there to be super strong competition for the Apple Watch, I just really want Google to figure out

what its product is and get me, whether it's that pixel watch or a unified Fitbit experience.

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