> This isn't really anything amazing or new One counterexample: Contractor, an Android Intents-like system for sharing data between apps. https://web.archive.

> This isn't really anything amazing or new One counterexample: Contractor, an Android Intents-like system for sharing data between apps. https://web.archive.org/web/20130314024115/http://elementaryos.org/docs/contractor https://web.archive.org/web/20130314024115/http://elementary... (archive.org link because this info doesn't seem to be on their new site, for whatever reason...) There are other technologies like Switchboard and Granite that are unique to Elementary OS, and many of the user-facing apps were written from scratch.