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Comment by bobowzki | Hacker News Reader

I believe "Sherlocked" is the term used.

>"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.

I think “Fluxxed” would have been a better term. Really captures the spirit of the thing.

Except that the term is about 15 years older than when it happened to f.lux

Flux actively came out and said if their feature was added to iOS they would be happy.

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.

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.

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.

Better integration has always been Apple's argument.

Sherlock was never blocked. Just cloned.

Edit: Watson was name. See child comment.

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.

Allegedly etc etc.

Alfred seems live fine alongside spotlight too.

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.

Raycast is good too.

Agree. Sherlock products were allowed, not blocked.

Seems quite meta that the term for this was taken from Apple's software. Sherlocked effectively means replaced and forgotten.

Yes the article says that.

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