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From: badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Yet again - Apple sherlocks functionali - copying -
 instead of innovating
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 20:27:24 -0000 (UTC)
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Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tyrone <none@none.none> 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.
>> 
> 
> And Xerox just copies, well, everything...
> 
> 


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