“If there’s one thing Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) makes clear, it’s that Apple loves the programmers who make software for iOS and OS X,” Geoff Duncan writes for Digital Trends. “But at the same time, Apple isn’t above pulling the rug out from under its own developers. Overnight, a company or lone programmer can go from having a leading app with rave reviews and decent sales to competing directly with Apple—and that almost never goes well. In fact, it’s happened so often in Apple’s history that it even has a name: ‘getting Sherlocked.’ …Sherlock 3 wasn’t the first time Apple had stomped on a third-party developer, but Watson was the first app to be ‘Sherlocked.’ And the name stuck.”
“Now that Apple has announced key new features in OS X Yosemite and iOS 8, who’s getting Sherlocked this time around?” Duncan writes. “The list is surprisingly long.”
• Dropbox
• Alfred
• Snapchat
• Whatsapp
• Lapse It and other time tapse apps
• Skitch
• Amazon & Microsoft cloud services
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