Another year, another set of Apple updates — and another set of popular app developers who could lose their livelihoods. Here’s what Apple Sherlocked at WWDC 2024.
Apple’s new Passwords app is just one of many new tools that “Sherlock” existing apps
Apple’s new Passwords app is just one of many new tools that “Sherlock” existing apps
Long before Spotlight, Apple developed a search tool it called Sherlock. An enterprising developer, though, then released an app called Watson that enhanced Sherlock — for a while.
When Apple next updated Sherlock, that release incorporated everything that Watson did, so Watson was now out of business. You can argue whether Apple stole Watson’s ideas, or you can point out that these enhancements were a logical next step that Apple would have taken anyway.
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