I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 382. Here are my solutions to them.
1: With twenty million users within a week in 2011, it’s now a file provider.
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iCloud
With twenty million users within a week (Apple claimed it had that many within a week of its introduction) in 2011 (released on 12 October 2011), it’s now a file provider (since macOS Sonoma it has used the FileProvider framework).
2: With an address book and shared calendars in 2008, it’s still chunking today.
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MobileMe
With an address book and shared calendars (two of its new features) in 2008 (released on 9 July 2008), it’s still chunking today (the MobileMe Chunking Service, MMCS, is still responsible for dividing files into chunks for transfer in iCloud Drive).
3: On subscription for backups and anti-virus from 2002, it lives on in a domain.
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.Mac
On subscription (it was only available on subscription of $99) for backups (using Backup) and anti-virus (the McAfee Virex scanner was provided free until 2005) from 2002 (it was released on 17 July 2002 as a renamed and upgraded version of iTools), it lives on in a domain (it’s still used in the mac.com domain owned by Apple).
The common factor
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They have each been Apple’s cloud services.
I look forward to your putting alternative cases.
