Star Discussion: Sherlock 3, AKA Watson Replica?
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 19th Jul 2002 18:36 UTC
Editorial Remember a month ago, when I urged the open source developers to take on this software and develop something equivelant and multi-platform? It seems that the only people who actually got interested in my $100 USD offer... was Apple.
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Web Services are the 'next big thing'...?
by moshek on Fri 19th Jul 2002 19:08 UTC

I can certainly sympathize with the Watson developers but, look at what their product is: a web service.

I won't contest for a moment that Apple was 'inspired' by Watson, but to say that they totally ripped it from their fingers like a Mr. Burns on a Maggie is a bit overboard.

The phrase "Web Services" has been floating around for more than a year now. If Apple didn't elect to include a yellow pages and movie browser in Sherlock, would Karelia still be complaining? It seems only natural that the new features in Sherlock3 are the ones that make themselves most obvious *as* web services. Yellow pages lend themselves to be available via a web service, as does movie sifting, as does most other services innately offered in Watson.

I *really* feel bad for Karelia, I have been using Watson for only two months now and I love it. But because Apple implemented something (very!) similar doesn't exactly give Watson bitching rights.