I disagree with some of the apps on this list. My biggest one is AllTrails. While the new trails feature on Apple Maps is nice, it hasn’t convinced me to change from AllTrials. The biggest reason is to at it only includes National Park Trails. I live in an area with numerous state and local parks/trails that are in AllTrails but not Maps yet.
Also, the Apples password app is basic and doesn’t have added features like 1Password does for software licenses, documents, etc… While you can store those things in Notes, it’s nice to have all your important information stored in one location.
It will not remove Strongbox, in my case. If I create or update a new password, I go into Strongbox and do it there. Then I let iCloud Keychain update it from the web form or application.
It was a highly popular and successful app – right up until Mac OS X 10.2, when Apple incorporated everything Watson did right into Sherlock. At that point, there was no longer any reason for anyone to buy Watson. The app had been Sherlocked.
IMO the term sherlocking gets used too often now. Just because Apple duplicates some of the most basic functionality of a third party app doesn’t necessarily make that app pointless or unnecessary, or mean that its business model has been obliterated overnight.
Did Numbers sherlock Excel? If it were introduced today, would TextEdit sherlock text editors like BBEdit? Similarly, I don’t think Bitwarden or 1PW are very worried right now.
Maybe the most basic third-party window managers will be sherlocked now that the Mac can split the screen a few more ways, but it’s not going to threaten more advanced ones like Moom. Even Magnet has a lot more options than the quartering and top-bottom halving Apple is adding to the existing left-right split. Rectangle and Magnet will probably lose some downloads and sales, but most ordinary users probably never installed them anyway.
From what I saw in the presentation, though, Soulver’s days are probably numbered.
The risk of sherlocking is yet another reason for developers to use cross-platform toolkits instead of native ones whenever they can. Creating cross-platform apps is a bit like diversifying a stock portfolio to reduce financial risk.
Apple, in most of the cases, is not the first one to invent or do something. But they are not briefly copying something from others. Like the highlighter on Notes app, I haven’t seen the colour of the texts change at the same time. Not to mention while they can introduce Markdown but they never. If they really Sherlock they can do it immediately but not a few years later.
People say Sherlock because they just hate Apple most of the time. When Apple is slow to respond to AI, they will say Apple is falling. XD
The original Sherlocking of Watson was before my time with Apple. But, really, in the past 20 years, has there been any other software product that was destroyed by Apple including the functionality in the OS? I’ve never stopped using any 3rd party software as a result of new OS features. Usually the Apple feature is so weak that I just continue with the 3rd party, which all seem to continue being developed and sold.
I would love for Apple to completely “Sherlock” all the password managers. Yes, you’d lose cross-platform if that’s important to you, but password management is a nightmare and IMHO it’s something the OS should just take care of for you. I really don’t want to hassle with this. If I have physical access to the iPhone or Mac and and can authenticate to that then just make all the passwords “just work”.
Apple building things into the OS definitely shrinks the size of the third-party market - but it typically really only covers the people with the most basic use cases.
It’s kind of like the pizza place down the street adding hamburgers to their menu. Are the burgers “good enough” for a number of people? Yup. But for the people who want something special, other restaurants offer a much more diverse selection.
That doesn’t mean the other restaurants might not feel a hit - but the ones that are actually offering something special, and who have customers that appreciate what they offer, will likely be fine.
Most ordinary users are aghast when somebody suggests that they may be best off buying software. They’ve already bought a computer, why would they have to shell out more money??!
I seriously doubt that Apple’s password app will ever have all the useful features of apps like Bitwarden and 1Password, but even if it does I won’t want my passwords locked inside Apple’s walled garden.
Agree. I do think that 1PW (and maybe other password apps) are different enough from Keychain or the new Passwords app that it is in zero danger. 1Password does great with passwords, of course, but it’s so much more: secure notes; passports; credit cards; etc. I rely heavily on 1password for keeping my passwords, but also for a lot of things that have almost zero to do with passwords.
To @Rhet_Turnbull’s point, though, I also agree that password management really does seem like it should be the domain of the operating system. I had never really even thought of that until your post. But of the kinds of things that an OS is responsible for, managing your login credentials seems like a fit.
I don’t think it should be the exclusive or primary domain of the operating system, but I agree that a password manager app should be included with an OS, along with things like a text editor, file manager, terminal app, etc.…wait, why aren’t all of those included with…
