This kind of integration greatly simplifies workflows for people who constantly have to switch between tasks on their computers and mobile devices.īack in 2016, I envisioned the same functionality, except that at the time, my work mostly concentrated on Android development. The mouse can be moved between the devices just as if the iPad was connected as a secondary screen, but allows taking control of the native iPadOS applications running on the tablet.
Specifically, I am referring to Apple’s new Universal Control functionality that allows users in the Apple ecosystem to use the mouse and keyboard of a macOS computer for controlling an attached iPad. In this instance though, the event came as a joyous and humbling occasion, since my original software runs on Android, so it can peacefully coexist with the same functionality in the shiny new macOS Monterey and iPadOS 15 releases. Today, while watching the live stream of Apple’s yearly Worldwide Developer Conference, I to my surprise witnessed the sherlocking of my own piece of software.
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The term originates from the first prominent occurence of this event, when Apple integrated the functionality of the third-party Watson software into their own Sherlock search tool that came bundled with Mac OS X 10.2. Within the Apple community, “sherlocking” refers to an original third-party application being obsoleted by Apple integrating the same functionality directly into their operating system.
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