It's time for episode 98 of the Clockwise Podcast from Relay FM recorded Wednesday, August 5th, 2015.

Clockwise, four people, four technology topics, 30 minutes.

Welcome back to Clockwise, the Tech Podcast that will self-destruct in 30 minutes.

I'm your co-host, Dan Morin, and I'm flying solo this week with the help of three fantastic guests,

because it just takes three fantastic guests to live up to the task when Jason Snell is not here.

To my immediate left from the wirecutter, Jackie Chang is here.

Hi, Jackie.

Hello.

Welcome back.

Thanks.

I love being here.

Directly across the table from me, as in the internet fashion, is Giant Space Cats,

Brianna Wu.

Hi, hi, Bree.

Hey, what's up?

And to my right is Refinery 29's tech editor, Christina Bonington. Hi, Christina. Hello. Welcome back to you as well.

Yeah. All right, let's kick it off. I'm the only host today. So I'm going to go first. There was a

report going around that was somewhat debunked this week that Apple might launch its own

cell service. Apple, of course, has said that's not going to happen. I was really interested

in this story just from the perspective of whether the cell phone services are sort of moving

into a realm kind of like the cable companies where they're becoming dumb pipes? Or is that something that's not going to

happen? Because I know Google has also launched an MV&O in recent months and is looking at sort of

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