The Honeycomb Screen Is a Hard Problem

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The honeycomb screen has always been a huge failure. The rate of adoption of third party apps among non nerd people on the watch is really low. There's all these different built-in features, many of which you can't turn off. And it has a massive discoverability problem once you do figure out how to use them.

Pre-show:
- 🗣️ New Member’s Special posted 🗣️
- A New Yorker’s View of the United States
Follow-up:
- The Kobo FU continues
  - The Libra 2 does have support, kinda (via Stefano Costatini)
  - Install NickelMenu
  - Add the Dropbox menu item
    - Libra 2
    - Other Kobos
- Multiple Displays on M1/M2 Macs
  - Matthaus Woolard points out there are only 2 display controllers
  - Hector Marcan has now-deleted tweets covering this (via Richard Stephens)
  - Edward Munn (among others) clues us into a DisplayLink-based workaround
  - Wavlink USB 3.0 ↔ HDMI Adapter (via Steve McWee)
  - Lior Shakedd summarizes the drawbacks
- The woes of the iBook G4 (via Ryan Maxwell)
  - Screen Spanning Doctor
  - Compatibility List
- Final Cut Pro on iPad
  - Some M1 Pros had 16GB RAM and virtual memory (via Chris)
  - Final Cut Pro handles project files in ∞ ways (via Brendan)
- Dell UltraSharp 32” 6K Monitor is $3,200
  - Resolutions
    - XDR = 6016 × 3384
    - Dell = 6144 × 3456
    - Dell has an 8K version available
    - Dell offers a variety of sizes
  - HDR600 only
WWDC Vibe Check 🧘🏻‍♂️
- Avoiding Copland 2010
- You Ruined Everything
Big watchOS upgrades coming?
Post-show: How should Casey price Callsheet?