I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 375. Here are my solutions to them.
1: Sigrid shortened by SRI and handed down from iOS 5.
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Siri
Sigrid shortened (it’s a popular shortened form of the name Sigrid) by SRI (it originated in a DARPA-funded project in Stanford Research Institute’s AI centre, and was acquired by Apple in 2011) and handed down from iOS 5 (its first release).
2: Holds papers everywhere, or at least with iOS 10 in consistency.
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Universal Clipboard
Holds papers (a clipboard) everywhere (universal), or at least with iOS 10 (shares with a minimum of iOS 10) in consistency (it’s one of the Continuity features).
3: Contactless payments from iOS 8.1 came with a visa and others.
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Apple Pay
Contactless payments (what it is) from iOS 8.1 (introduced in iOS 8.1 in 2014) came with a visa (Visa was one of its initial partners) and others (many other payment processors now support it).
The common factor
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They were all new features in macOS Sierra, released on 20 September 2016, almost ten years ago.
I look forward to your putting alternative cases.
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