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

On 2025-06-12 13:33, Your Name wrote:

On 2025-06-12 15:05:14 +0000, Tyrone said:

On Jun 12, 2025 at 10:05:11 AM EDT, "Jolly Roger" <jollyroger@pobox.com>
wrote:

On 2025-06-12, 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.
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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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Apple didn't steal anything from Xerox, fool.

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Then Microsoft did not steal anything from Apple either.  Fool. Everything was
"inspired by...". Right?

 Depends on which version of "history" you want to believe. Some places / people say Apple had permission to use Xerox Park's ideas, other say they didn't.

There is no doubt: Apple did have permission.

 Same with Windows, which although pushed by Apple's GUI, was actually based on someone elses's work, and again depending on which version of "history" you bleieve, was either bought up, stolen, or simply copied by Microsoft ... which is of course how Microsoft has done everything is has ever released (then completely screwed up).

Microsoft got a license to use SOME of Apple's GUI...
...and a judge misread what they were allowed to use because by the time it was adjudicated what Apple had created had become "obvious".