By the time the ... • Wednesday June 18, 2025 8:10 pm PDT by Every year between 2015 and 2024, at least one Apple executive agreed to be interviewed by Daring Fireball's John Gruber for a special WWDC episode of his podcast, The Talk Show. Last year, for example, Apple's software engineering chief Craig Federighi, marketing chief Greg Joswiak, and top AI researcher John Giannandrea joined Gruber on stage at the California Theatre in San Jose to discuss... • Top Rated Comments1 day ago at 07:41 amA lot of older audio gear uses firewire, there’s going be a lot of musicians and studios upset by this if it turns out to be how the final release goesI do wonder if the settings tab shows up if you plug in a firewire device though, it may just hide it to declutter when there’s nothing detected, anyone running the beta who has a TB to firewire adapter want to test?Score: 30 Votes ( | )1 day ago at 07:54 amComplete stupidity like this is why I will never let up on Apple. There’s zero reason for them to be removing functionality in software that hardware is otherwise capable of. There are still many use cases and industries relying on legacy FireWire devices.Score: 17 Votes ( | )1 day ago at 07:38 amThat's unfortunate. Although, TBH, I was honestly surprised how long the legacy I/O is still being supported. I still regularly sync my iPod video to my Mac to this day and it works great.Score: 13 Votes ( | )1 day ago at 07:41 amWait, does this mean we won't be able to plug in a digital 8 camcorder? I still have tapes that I need to capture but they have not been mailed to me yet.Score: 13 Votes ( | )1 day ago at 08:18 amSeems trivial for them to include the driver. There are all kinds of old hard drives and even pro video and pro audio equipment out there that are still functionally relevant/useful. It really is to their benefit to maintain compatibility.Score: 13 Votes ( | )1 day ago at 08:16 amNobody is FORCING you to upgrade to the latest version of MacOS, nor should upgrading be done blindly and without due diligence. With each new version take an objective look at what features you get and what you lose and decide if upgrading will fit your workflow. If connecting to a FireWire device is essential to your business then don't upgrade. Or keep a different Mac around just to keep it connected. Or find a replacement device that connects via a supported interface. It's not the end of the world, there's always a reasonable solution.Score: 11 Votes ( | )Next ArticleGuides Pride wallpaper, carrier satellite connectivity for iPhone 13, Screen Time improvements, and more. Apple Intelligence is what Apple is calling its artificial intelligence feature set. Here's everything we know. Image Playground is Apple's dedicated image creation app that can build cartoon-like pictures based on text descriptions., For example, NekoMichiUBC on X has discovered that the macOS Tahoe beta lacks support for FireWire. That means that legacy devices, such as the original and 2nd-generation iPod, , The first macOS Tahoe developer beta does not support the legacy FireWire 400 and FireWire 800 data-transfer standards, according to @NekoMichi on X, and a Reddit post..