hoakley General, Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 327

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 327. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Lost rocket platform as an app for your apps.

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Launchpad

Lost (it has been removed from Tahoe) rocket platform (a launchpad) as an app for your apps (what it was, an app for launching other apps).

2: Burning telegraph and lynx now disconnected.

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FireWire

Burning (fire) telegraph (wire) and lynx (Texas Instruments’ name for FireWire, IEEE 1394) now disconnected (support has been dropped from Tahoe, although oddly its kernel extensions are still present).

3: Happy Christmas 2017 is sad September 2025 for the most powerful Mac.

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iMac Pro

Happy Christmas 2017 (although announced the previous June, it shipped in December 2017) is sad September 2025 (it’s one of the T2 models dropped from Tahoe) for the most powerful Mac (when introduced, it was described as “the most powerful Mac ever made”, at least until the Mac Pro 2019).

The common factor

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They have all been dropped from Tahoe.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.