{"id":33222,"date":"2018-05-21T00:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T07:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.com\/?p=33222"},"modified":"2018-05-21T19:32:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T02:32:20","slug":"newsletter-issue-964-as-the-wwdc-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2018\/05\/newsletter-issue-964-as-the-wwdc-approaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #964: As the WWDC Approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My waking hours are not consumed wondering what sort of goodies Apple will reveal on June 4th, the date for the WWDC keynote. Last year&#8217;s announcements were more voluminous than than many expected, so it may well be there will be lots to predict, lots to talk about this year too. So it&#8217;s natural that the tech media is getting set to talk about it.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, we had the predictable demonstrations of iOS 11 and macOS 10.13. While the superstitious among you might have felt a letdown that Apple didn&#8217;t succumb to the unlucky 13 stigma, such as it is, High Sierra still wasn&#8217;t such a compelling release.<\/p>\n<p>It has worked all right for me, but I&#8217;m somewhat disappointed that the &#8220;future update&#8221; promised by Apple to add support for the Apple File System (APFS) to Macs with Fusion Drives has yet to arrive. Indeed, after the initial claim that it would come, there has been little or no discussion about it. The option to convert the Fusion Drive on my iMac to APFS is still grayed out.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wait! There's more than meets the eye!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/newsletter\/2018\/05\/newsletter-issue-964\/#approaches\"><strong>Continue Reading\u2026<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My waking hours are not consumed wondering what sort of goodies Apple will reveal on June 4th, the date for the WWDC keynote. 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