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Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 360

I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 360. Here are my solutions to them.

1: With parents born in 1984 and 1989, it was born a server and raised with aqua.

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Mac OS X

With parents born in 1984 (Classic Mac OS) and 1989 (NeXTSTEP), it was born a server (first released as Mac OS X Server 1.0 in 1999) and raised with aqua (its initial GUI, explained by Steve Jobs as “when you saw it you wanted to lick it”).

2: First with Face ID and no Home to go to in 2017.

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iPhone X

First with Face ID (it was the first iPhone to feature it) and no Home to go to (it was the first iPhone without a Home button) in 2017 (announced in September, and released in November).

3: It shocked without MIDI in 2009, and ten years later went solo.

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QuickTime X

It shocked without MIDI in 2009 (it first shipped with Snow Leopard, and dropped MIDI support), and ten years later went solo (when Catalina was released in 2019, support for previous 32-bit QuickTime was removed, leaving just QuickTime X).

The common factor

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They each use the Roman numeral X for decimal 10, and should be pronounced ‘ten’ rather than ‘ecks’.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.