Re: Yet again - Apple sherlocks functionality - copying - instead of innovating

On 6/11/2025 6:48 PM, Alan wrote:

On 2025-06-11 15:46, Tom Elam wrote:

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.
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  *Apple sherlocked these apps at WWDC 2025*
  <https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/11/apple-sherlocked-these-apps- at-wwdc-2025/>
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Oh, and Apple usually innovates a half dozen "exciting new emojis" too!

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

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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!

 I never said that they hadn't, asshole.
 Learn to read.

You have denied that Apple copies others since the went to larger phones since, well, Apple introduced a plus-size phone. At the time you stated Apple was just "following consumer trends" when larger Android phones had been out for years?