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0 pointsjessekv2y ago0 comments

There are still a few, e.g. https://halide.cam/

But if you are successful, there is a chance of getting sherlocked, so its a risky business model.

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> But if you are successful, there is a chance of getting sherlocked, so its a risky business model.

What does this even mean? Watson shows up to help out?

Watson was an independent search application on Mac OS, until Apple basically photocopied it and named theirs Sherlock. Since then it's become a verb for when Apple takes your app and builds it into the OS.

Another blatant example was Dashboard, which copied Konfabulator, Night Shift is a copy of F.lux, etc.

countvonbalzac2y ago

I still use F.lux, it's much better than night shift IMO, just wish they had it for iOS.

qubex2y ago

When they demonstrated on-desktop widgets the other day, I thought to myself “there goes Konfabulator/Dashboard 2.0”, and then I thought to myself “you’re old enough to remember that and to be caustically cynical”.

ladberg2y ago

Technically Sherlock predates Watson, it's just a lot of the useful additional features added by Watson were copied to Sherlock.

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scyzoryk_xyz2y ago

"Getting sherlocked means that Apple just announced the software, or feature that a developer built their business on."

https://www.howtogeek.com/297651/what-does-it-mean-when-a-co...

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