“Not only will this drastically expand our potential market size, but we also see many interesting new uses for our Liquid technology that we’ll be able to pursue with our Rust based platform. “With Rust, we’ll have a high-performance and portable platform that we can easily run on Mac, iOS, Linux, Android, and Windows,” Astropad’s Matt Ronge writes.
So it is now moving its codebase-over 40,000 lines of Objective-C and C++ code- to Rust, which is cross-platform and will allow the firm to bring its products to Windows and even other platforms. The problem for Astropad, of course, is that its products are macOS native. And it appears that it was Astropad’s turn this year with macOS Catalina. It’s called “Sherlocked” because of one of the more infamous examples of this theft, when Apple stole the functionality from a product called Karelia Watson and incorporated it into Mac OS X as Sherlock.Īpple seems to Sherlock at least one product with each platform release.
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Watching Apple present Sidecar to the world was like seeing years of hard work flash before your eyes while someone else takes credit for it.”įor those unfamiliar with the term “Sherlocked,” Apple has a rich history of stealing ideas from products made by third-party developers and then incorporating them for free into its own platforms. “For our team of just 13 people, it was devastating news.
“In June 2019, Apple announced a new feature in macOS Catalina called Sidecar that closely copied our product lines,” Astropad’s Savannah Reising explained in a recent blog post.
After being Sherlocked by Apple in macOS Catalina, Astropad is bringing its iPad as a second screen solution to Windows.
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