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Subject: Re: Yet again - Apple sherlocks functionali - copying -
 instead of innovating
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 12:34:24 -0000 (UTC)
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Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
> 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.

And stole the idea of Windows from ..

... Apple!