512 Pixels is a blog written by Stephen Hackett about things that light up and make noise.
I'm not a developer.
Not even close, really, but I appreciate what they do and how they work. That's why I'm so excited about this new podcast from Marco Arment and Underscore David Smith:
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It's not unusual that retired support articles have their formatting or even images broken over time, but this is one of the more recent ones where I've seen it happen.
If you work with other people, you should check this out:
Over the years we added features oriented towards teams, such as vault sharing. Thanks to these features and more, many companies are happily using 1Password today, including NASA, Basecamp, and Atlassian.
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Hiroshi Lockheimer, SVP Android, Chrome OS and Chromecast, writing on the Google Chrome blog:
Over the last few days, there’s been some confusion about the future of Chrome OS and Chromebooks based on speculation that Chrome OS will be folded into Android. While we’ve been working on ways to bring together the best of both operating systems, there's no plan to phase out Chrome OS.
Notice the dancing around in that paragraph. Either the WSJ got it wrong, over-stating the work to "bring together" the two OSes, or this is happening, and somehow "Chrome OS" will stick around.
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.
This new version of Android would run on PCs. Instead of the it's-mostly-just-a-browser experience ChromeOS users have now, they could enjoy the ever-growing ecosystem of Android apps and services.
I'm interested to see how this plays out.
John Paczkowski:
Incidentally, that Amazon Prime Video is the exception to the conga line of content offerings above is entirely Amazon’s doing. A ~magnanimous~ Apple 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.)
I can see why Amazon would favor its own Fire boxes over Apple's, but the cold war over Prime video isn't doing those of us who pay for the service — and like it — any favors.
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.
