This is a great philosophy more people should adhere to. The more third party apps you use, the less stable your system becomes over years, and across new macOS releases.
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Apple 'Sherlocked' These Apps at WWDC 2025
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This is a great philosophy more people should adhere to. The more third party apps you use, the less stable your system becomes over years, and across new macOS releases.
I wish Patrice O’Neal was still with us, he’d have a different explanation for what “Sherlocking” is, I’m sure.
Tech community: “Apple keeps on forgetting about their software! They haven’t updated [app or component] in so long! They need to improve it already”
Apple: ok
Tech community: “How dare you! You sherlocked this app’s very obvious functionality! MONOPOLY!”
Apple: ok
Tech community: “How dare you! You sherlocked this app’s very obvious functionality! MONOPOLY!”
I agree! I’ve used them before whenever I flew and their app is very robust! I’ll continue to support them.
I mean, I appreciate them Sherlocking Magnet after they started charging 8€. I still think Magnet‘s windows management is better, but not 8€ better. Luckily I got when it was still free.
Apple should “sherlock” - or, better, buy (it’s on sale) - also the excellent MacUpdater (by the Malta-based CoreCode): macOS needs a global Software Update infrastructure (as has been for years in Linux, and will soon be in Windows: with Windows Update open to third party software)…
Not necessarily. Docker and Podman Desktop (GUI) still have many more features. Under the hood all of them work more or less the same way: OCI containers running on a minimal Linux VM.
It's not a bad thing though, that Apple takes this use case more seriously. Their efforts should make working with containers better for everyone.
I suspect, that Apple created the container framework mostly for internal development.
and no body used sherlock. I don't even use Spotlight, I disabled it.
Gah if I had an iPhone with Apple Intelligence (I don't) then I wouldn't need to have the Shop app anymore to keep tabs on all of my packages
I wish people would realize that, after 50+ years of it being shown to be the case over and over, no matter how much some of you whine, gaming is not a priority to Apple to the point where they'd bother making dedicated hardware for it.
I believe it’s too soon to say flighty was sherlocked. Its’ best feature is to show your plane location at anytime, even before the plane arrives at the airport you are at. It’s the best way to predict if your flight will be late or not. I dont believe that this new iOS Ticket feature will show that level of detail.
I wanted to mention an app that, for many, many years, was one of the first to install on my Intel Mac.
ClipMenu.
www.clipmenu.com
Why mention it? Because it was one of the first clipboards for Intel Macs, and after the launch of the MacAppStore other clipboard apps tried to use the same name and icon for their app.
But the true and original ClipMenu was from Naotaka Morimoto.
I always installed his app, not other rip-offs.
Even tho his app was abandoned in 2015, not sure if he died or just his life changed, I don’t know what happened, but today, his app, and many other clipboard apps, got sherlocked.
I’m glad macOS Tahoe includes a native clipboard. Hopefully, like it was rumored, the access from third party apps will be scrutinized and limited.
ClipMenu.
ClipMenu Blog - ClipMenu.com
www.clipmenu.com
Why mention it? Because it was one of the first clipboards for Intel Macs, and after the launch of the MacAppStore other clipboard apps tried to use the same name and icon for their app.
But the true and original ClipMenu was from Naotaka Morimoto.
I always installed his app, not other rip-offs.
Even tho his app was abandoned in 2015, not sure if he died or just his life changed, I don’t know what happened, but today, his app, and many other clipboard apps, got sherlocked.
I’m glad macOS Tahoe includes a native clipboard. Hopefully, like it was rumored, the access from third party apps will be scrutinized and limited.
It all goes back to Steve Jobs' challenge to the founders of Dropbox, "Are you a feature or a product?" The good ones raise their offerings above the level of a feature to make a product worth buying or subscribing to. In just about every case, Apple doesn't make the clear-cut industry-leading feature. It's almost always "good enough" and ends up that way. For all of the false starts, Apple's AI efforts are probably headed down the same path.
Nice to see that some of the functionalities no longer require a separate app! Good to see the list.
Before Apple "Sherlocked" them, how many were already cloned by some other developer?
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Apparently, since Ventura or so macOS can use an iPhone as camera. Never got it to work, maybe my iPhone XR and/or my 2018 Mini is/are too old.
Camo Cam works. But couldn't stomach forking over 100 for a lifetime license.
Camo Cam works. But couldn't stomach forking over 100 for a lifetime license.
I think if Apple had their way the only updater you'd need would be the App Store app, because every third-party app you installed would come from there.
I do feel it’s a comeuppance for some greedy developers charging $30/year+ for a pasteboard manager etc… Good developers deserve to be rewarded but I think we’ve lost all perspective on proportional value in some cases.
With Journal coming to iPad and Mac many journaling apps are Sherlocked. I just cancelled my Day One subscription in anticipation of the addition to my Mac.
BTW, Microsoft is doing something similar, by opening Windows Update to third party software:
No more separate app updates? Microsoft wants Windows Update to handle it all now
Microsoft has shared detailed plans for the future of Windows Update, which will handle app updates alongside OS updates.
www.neowin.net
Something similar could also be done with the Apple Mac App Store, for example by integrating into it an infrastructure similar to that of MacUpdater (which works well and is already existing), thus installing and updating all apps from within a central location. As also in Linux, for example with KDE Discover and other all-in-one software centers.
It will probably come, with time…
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