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I believe "Sherlocked" is the term used.

jamil7 5y ago
In a lot of the cases (not necessarily this one) it's a welcome addition to build some useful app directly into the OS - the flashlight or flux are two examples I can think of.
- amelius 5y ago
  Better integration has always been Apple's argument.
jtbayly 5y ago
Sherlock was never blocked. Just cloned. Edit: Watson was name. See child comment.
- shellac 5y ago
  You mean Watson was never blocked. Sherlock was the Apple tool that (in version 3) took heavy inspiration from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karelia_Watson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karelia_Watson. Allegedly etc etc.
- bengale 5y ago
  Alfred seems live fine alongside spotlight too.
  - Hamuko 5y ago
    Alfred has a lot more features. For example I constantly use the clipboard manager in Alfred and as far as I know, Spotlight has no such functionality. Of course, Alfred was always designed to work alongside Spotlight since all the actual indexing relies on Spotlight.
  - jagger27 5y ago
    Raycast is good too.
- arvinsim 5y ago
  Agree. Sherlock products were allowed, not blocked.
- macintux 5y ago
  Seems quite meta that the term for this was taken from Apple's software. Sherlocked effectively means replaced and forgotten.
beervirus 5y ago
Yes the article says that.
slig 5y ago
>"The phenomenon of Apple releasing a feature that supplants or obviates third-party software is so well known that being Sherlocked has become an accepted term used within the Mac and iOS developer community" TIL.
- cainxinth 5y ago
  I think “Fluxxed” would have been a better term. Really captures the spirit of the thing.
  - fencepost 5y ago
    Except that the term is about 15 years older than when it happened to f.lux
  - post_break 5y ago
    Flux actively came out and said if their feature was added to iOS they would be happy.
  - pwinnski 5y ago
    Flux was sherlocked, to be sure, but sherlocked has been around as a term since 2002 or so, while f.lux was a much more recent victim, from 2015 or so.
codemusings 5y ago
Not really since the developer has no way to compete on merits. Sherlocked used to mean that, yes, there's a builtin version now but your app could at least try and compete. Not so much in this case.
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In a lot of the cases (not necessarily this one) it's a welcome addition to build some useful app directly into the OS - the flashlight or flux are two examples I can think of.

amelius 5y ago
Better integration has always been Apple's argument.

jtbayly 5y ago

Sherlock was never blocked. Just cloned. Edit: Watson was name. See child comment.

shellac 5y ago
You mean Watson was never blocked. Sherlock was the Apple tool that (in version 3) took heavy inspiration from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karelia_Watson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karelia_Watson. Allegedly etc etc.
bengale 5y ago
Alfred seems live fine alongside spotlight too.
- Hamuko 5y ago
  Alfred has a lot more features. For example I constantly use the clipboard manager in Alfred and as far as I know, Spotlight has no such functionality. Of course, Alfred was always designed to work alongside Spotlight since all the actual indexing relies on Spotlight.
- jagger27 5y ago
  Raycast is good too.
arvinsim 5y ago
Agree. Sherlock products were allowed, not blocked.
macintux 5y ago
Seems quite meta that the term for this was taken from Apple's software. Sherlocked effectively means replaced and forgotten.

beervirus 5y ago

Yes the article says that.

slig 5y ago

>"The phenomenon of Apple releasing a feature that supplants or obviates third-party software is so well known that being Sherlocked has become an accepted term used within the Mac and iOS developer community" TIL.

cainxinth 5y ago
I think “Fluxxed” would have been a better term. Really captures the spirit of the thing.
- fencepost 5y ago
  Except that the term is about 15 years older than when it happened to f.lux
- post_break 5y ago
  Flux actively came out and said if their feature was added to iOS they would be happy.
- pwinnski 5y ago
  Flux was sherlocked, to be sure, but sherlocked has been around as a term since 2002 or so, while f.lux was a much more recent victim, from 2015 or so.

codemusings 5y ago

Not really since the developer has no way to compete on merits. Sherlocked used to mean that, yes, there's a builtin version now but your app could at least try and compete. Not so much in this case.

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