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Subject: Re: Yet again - Apple sherlocks functionality - copying - instead of innovating
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On 2025-06-11 22:46:24 +0000, Tom Elam said:
> On 6/11/2025 1:00 PM, Alan wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Alan, Apple has been taking ideas from other companies, improving them, 
> and making noise about their "innovation" for decades. Of course, same 
> is true of Google!

Bill Gates / Microsoft didn't even write DOS either. They bought it 
from a real developer named Tim Patterson.