Episode 045 — It’s a Watch that Does Stuff

Exponent

Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2015

⏱️ 72 minutes

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In this week’s episode, Ben finally has an Apple Watch: James has lots of questions about it. (And yes, we should have talked about Google Now.) Links Horace Dediu: The Battle for The Wrist — Asymco Ben Thompson: Mobile Makes Facebook Just an App; That’s Great News – Stratechery Ben Thompson: Why Now for Apple Watch – Stratechery John Gruber: Watch, Apple Watch – Daring Fireball Hosts Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review Podcast Information Feed iTunes SoundCloud Twitter Feedback

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0:00.0	Hi, James.
0:00.7	Ben, how are you?
0:02.5	I'm good.
0:03.7	Had a refreshing break from you last week.
0:06.8	And I was about to say how much I missed you.
0:11.0	How was your week?
0:12.7	It was good.
0:13.9	It was good.
0:15.4	We, gosh, it feels so long ago.
0:19.2	I almost can't remember.
0:39.6	It was our annual user conference in Arizona last week, in Scottsdale, a part of the country I hadn't been to. It was lots of fun. Got to meet some cool people, talk to some interesting people, including Fred Reicheld, who's the creator of NPS, who's come on board with Medalia as an advisor, which was super cool.
0:44.9	Very cool. And so I trust the conference went well. Yeah, it went really well. Lots of interesting speakers and lots of interesting companies there. It was lots of fun. And Arizona's really
0:50.2	quite beautiful. And it was unseasonably cold at the time too which was really awesome.
0:54.7	Oh, perfect. Did you get to see any get out of Scottsdale to see any scenery or are you mostly
0:59.2	in the city? I did do a drive with a couple of friends to Phoenix to this pizza restaurant
1:05.6	that's apparently, and I'm sure I'm going to ruffle feathers even by suggesting this, but
1:09.6	it's considered one of the best
1:11.1	pizza places in the States. And so we did the drive and a friend, a friend who's a local there
1:16.8	showed me round a little bit, like a bit of the desert. It wasn't, I really want to make it to Antelope
1:21.8	Canyon one of these days. And I haven't had the chance. And there wasn't time around, but at some point, I really want to get back and do that.
1:29.6	Sorry, I was stuck on the suggestion that there might be a pizza restaurant in Arizona.
1:34.5	That's the best in the states or state.
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