Digitek; Why is Apple copying developers?

If Apple is not the most innovative company in the world, it certainly has a place in the list of these companies between one and three. But the same company has repeatedly copied the developers and, by changing or adding a very simple feature, presents it to the user as a new innovation. In this video, I go over the process of copying Apple from developers.

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Stealing, or to put it mildly, copying other people’s ideas, is not unique to Apple, but it may be the first time the company has approached it. Almost 20 years ago, when Apple had not yet developed Spotlight (a search feature on the iPhone and MacBook), it had an app called Sherlock. This application was a weak version of Spotlight, allowing the user to easily search the content inside their Mac. However, Sherlock did not have features such as currency conversion, calculator, and Yahoo Directory search.

This is where the Watson app, developed by an independent developer, came in handy and allowed users to forget about all of Sherlock’s shortcomings. This trend continued on the Macintosh 8 and 9, and both apps, like the fictional world of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, worked together until Apple decided to add all of Watson’s features to the Sherlock on the Macintosh 10. From that date, in 2002, the word “Sherlock” was born and was given to all the ideas that Apple copied from the developers.

Sherlocking has been done by Apple many times throughout history, and in the “High Sierra” Macau alone, nearly 16 developer ideas were destroyed. Apple’s latest Sherlock, perhaps one of the strangest, is the Apple Watch 7 Series keyboard, which is a clumsy copy of the Flicktype app. You can watch the story of Apple’s lawsuit for copying the same keyboard and more bizarre examples of Sherlocking in the video above.