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xd1936
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Swift Package Index joins Apple
It's a reference to Sherlock (and later Spotlight) being added to macOS, rendering the previous third-party search-launcher tools obsolete.
cavoirom
85 days ago
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Thank you, I learned it today. On the other side, some users replaced Sherlock (Spotlight) with Alfred.
fastball
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And somewhere in there Quicksilver was pretty popular. And now in 2026 the main competition is Raycast. An evergreen space really.
MBCook
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I think the Sherlock thing was in the OS 8 or OS 9 days whereas Spotlight didn’t come around until sometime in macOS X, maybe 10.4 or so?
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