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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.ipad,comp.sys.mac.advocacy
Subject: Re: Yet again - Apple sherlocks functionality - copying - instead of
 innovating
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 10:00:36 -0700
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On 2025-06-11 09:24, Marion wrote:
> Yet again - Apple sherlocks functionality - copying - instead of innovating
> which isn't a bad thing - it just proves that Apple can't innovate.
> 
>   *Apple sherlocked these apps at WWDC 2025*
>   <https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/11/apple-sherlocked-these-apps-at-wwdc-2025/>
> 
> MacRumors specifically talks about how Apple sherlocked several apps at
> WWDC 2025 by introducing new features in iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe that offer
> similar functionality to existing third-party solutions. Examples mentioned
> include enhanced Spotlight replacing features of Raycast and Launch Bar,
> Call Assist acting like Robokiller and Truecaller, and Notes app for Apple
> Watch replacing various third-party note-taking apps on the watch.
> 
> I repeat that it's not necessarily a bad thing when Apple developers are
> forced to copy existing functionality because htey can't innovate, but it
> does provide more evidence that Apple long ago lost the ability to
> innovate.
> 
> All Apple can do now to "innovate" is remove basic functionality so that
> the poor Apple customer is forced to figure out a way to buy it back.
> 
> Oh, and Apple usually innovates a half dozen "exciting new emojis" too!

Subsuming functionality that exists in third party apps isn't 
necessarily "sherlocking" them.