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Apple’s annual developer conference is being held in San Jose this year from June 4th to June 8th and expectations are high this year due to the atypical lack of polish that plagued iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra after launch in September of last year. Of particular interest (to me at least) is whether or not this year will be a scaled back event or a normal one. I bring this up since 1) Apple supposedly made adjustments to their software development process and 2) iMessage in iCloud and AirPlay 2 have yet to launch, but were announced at WWDC last year....

Prior to the release of macOS Lion (née OS X Lion), the server portion of the OS was a separately licensed product and, depending on which license you purchased, you either had or didn’t have a client limit for the server services you enabled. Although the server OS was mainly geared towards the Xserve1, it could run on just about any Mac that could run the normal OS. When the time came for Lion to replace Snow Leopard, things changed....

In June of 2013, Phil Schiller took to the stage at WWDC 2013 to offer a sneak peek at the future of desktop computing. With the proclamation of “Can’t innovate anymore, my ass!” (read STFU Woz) the new 2013 Mac Pro was revealed to the world to replace the boring, standard PC-like Mac Pro tower (aka the Cheese Grater) and Mac Pro Server edition. The new Trashcan Mac Pro was officially available in December of 2013 with some pretty impressive hardware:...