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

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:
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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.
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*Apple sherlocked these apps at WWDC 2025*
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<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!

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

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And stole the idea of Windows from ..
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.. Apple!

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And Apple stole it from Xerox.
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And Xerox just copies, well, everything...
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