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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: Re: Yet again - Apple sherlocks functionali - copying - instead of
 innovating
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 09:05:40 -0700
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On 2025-06-12 06:05, Tyrone wrote:
> On Jun 12, 2025 at 8:34:24 AM EDT, "Chris" <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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!
> 
> And Apple stole it from Xerox.

Nope. False.