A decade and a half ago, the first crew launched to the International Space Station. Construction on the now football field sized station began modestly in 1998.
In the years since, ISS has been busy, as this NASA infographic shows: 
Back here on Earth, we’re benefitting from the work done in low-Earth orbit. With current plans to keep ISS in service until 2024, we can look forward to many more discoveries and missions.
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Either that WSJ report is wrong, or Google is scrambling to keep the cat in the bag and not have its PC OS die too soon.
This week on Connected: I am questioned about my growing Apple collection, Myke wonders why he bought an Apple TV and Federico ponders his iPad future.
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Google currently ships two OSes. Android, which powers everything from watches to smartphones to tablets and ChromeOS, which is designed to run on small, (mostly) affordable notebooks.
According to Alistair Barr at The Wall Street Journal, that may be about to change:
Google engineers have been working for roughly two years to combine the operating systems and have made progress recently, two of the people said. The company plans to unveil its new, single operating system in 2017, but expects to show off an early version next year, one of the people said.
John Paczkowski:
Incidentally, that Amazon Prime Video is the exception to the conga line of content offerings above is entirely Amazon’s doing. A
magnanimousApple tells BuzzFeed News that “all are welcome” on its new Apple TV platform. But Amazon — which recently purged Apple TV from its store — doesn’t have a Prime Video app in the Apple TV App Store. And as of a few days ago, it hadn’t submitted one. (An Amazon spokesperson told BuzzFeed News the company “doesn’t have anything to share” on the topic.)
Mashable’s Lance Ulanoff interview with the man who tell’s Apple story is full of interesting details. It revolves around things like the 12-inch MacBook and Campus 2, but the things shared here should be considered far-reaching when thinking about Apple.
Christopher Phin:
Imagine if today, you could buy “a Mac” from Sony or Lenovo or Dell that wasn’t just cheaper than what you’d buy from Apple, but faster and more expandable—and still ran El Capitan perfectly. That’s pretty much where we found ourselves in the late ’90s with companies such as UMAX, Akia, Motorola, and of course Power Computing, the first to be granted a licence from Apple.
I admit I haven’t spent a lot of time exploring this chapter of Apple’s history. It’s a prime example of just how screwed up Apple was before Jobs came back. Cancelling this program was one of the first things he did.
Serenity Caldwell and Jason Snell transcribed Tim Cook’s remarks on today’s call. Lots of interesting stuff in there.
Apple’s Q4 2015 results are in. Here are the highlights:
That’s a record quarter for the Mac, mind you.
The iPad stays on its downward trend, but the only new hardware released this fall in the line was the iPad mini 4. The iPad Pro’s launch will fall in Apple’s busy holiday quarter. Time will tell if Apple will highlight how the new model does. Are a lot of people holding out for the iPad Pro? Did the lack of an update to the 9.7-inch model supress sales, or is this just more of the same news from the iPad?
It’s hard to believe the first Apple TV was so similar and so different to what we have today, all at the same time.
On this week’s Liftoff, Jason and I talk all about the sun. Come for the warm sunshine; stay for the arching plasma torrents of death.
Bonus: Don’t miss this post by Chris Breen, which includes the sheet music of our theme.
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