Apple’s new Sherlock tool targets your grandparents’ technology

We saw it earlier this year when Apple announced Journal, an app many have compared to the third-party app Day One.

Similarly, we see it now with iOS 17’s StandBy feature.

Many have criticized Apple for copying the functionality of a popular app and then replacing it with its own.

In this case, Apple uses its own app to implement a feature that was originally offered by a third party.

NameDrop isApple’s version of the old Bump app, though that one is long goneAfter

Google acquired it.

You could argue that NameDrop are a bit like the old Live Voicemail featureiOS 17 includes a number of features borrowed from other apps, such as the StandBy setting up a phone call on the fly

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