It's time for episode 85 of the Clockwise podcast from Relay FM, recorded Wednesday, April 29th, 2015.

Clockwise, Four People for Technology Topics.

30 minutes.

Welcome back to Clockwise, where we keep watching our watch, the Apple Watch, probably.

I am your co-host, Jason Snell, and not too far away from me, but over the internet, is my co-host.

Yes, we're together again. It's Dan Moran. Hi, Dan. Hi, Jason. It's been so long since we did a show with the two of us.

I know. I think we're back together for good now, though. For good. It's done. Never again.

Never leave me again. That's right. Exactly right. Now, this is clockwise. So, of course,

we have two wonderful guests. One of our guests is a first time clockwiser. You are Alison Sherrod and host of the Nossilla cast, which is your name backward.

That's right. Thank you for having me. This is going to be fun. Yeah, you nailed it. You nailed the name.

And our other lovely guest, a returning guest to my left, is former Macworld editor and most

recently author of the Yosemite A Take Control Crash Course Guide, Ms. Shali McFarland. Hi, Shali. Hello. Glad to be here.

Welcome back. All right. We plug podcasts and books now. It's time to get down to business. Four topics in 30 minutes. I'm going to go first. I mentioned it at the top of the show. The Apple Watch has arrived. And I'm going to make this twofold. If you have an Apple Watch, I'm interested in some quick first

thoughts. And if you don't, I'm interested in what your impressions are of how other people

are reacting to the Apple Watch. And Allison, let's start with you. Well, I do have an Apple Watch.

I got the silver or the aluminum sport model with the heavy white band. And I am Dick Tracy now. I love talking to my watch. Do you have a hat?

Yeah. Yeah, it's black. It's got a little rim on it. The fact that I can get a text message while I'm walking my dog, I can lift up my wrist,

look at it, and tap a button, dictate in a response and hit go is just magical for me.

I'm really, really digging that. And it's, and the dictation seems a lot better. The transcription

seems a lot better than it is on the iPhone. And I don't know why that is. And I thought it

was just me,

but I've heard other people saying it. So apparently there's something interesting going on there.

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