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Alfred does a lot more than that. But yes, the inspiration is obvious (and Alfred itself was inspired by Quicksilver).


Which was inspired by LaunchBar. The cmd-space keyboard shortcut originated with LaunchBar back in the NeXT days. Spotlight has had added features repeatedly over the years, and people have said that LaunchBar/QuickSliver/Alfred are about to be "Sherlocked".


> Sherlocked:

> To have developed a product and just started shipping it, only to have Apple come along and provide exactly the same functionality in a system update.

> It happened to Karelia Software twice. Once with Sherlock and again with iWeb.




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