As some of you know, Apple announced its next operating system, OS X 10.10 Yosemite today.
A few users have voiced concerns that Spotlight in Yosemite looks more like Alfred, and wonder whether this changes anything for Alfred and his future.
What you have to remember is that Spotlight’s primary objective is to search your files and a small handful of pre-determined web sources. Meanwhile, Alfred’s primary objective is to make you more productive on your Mac with exceptional and powerful features like Clipboard History, System commands, iTunes Mini Player, 1Password bookmarks, Terminal integration, fully bespoke and customisable user-created workflows and much, much more. These features allow you to mould Alfred to your unique needs, and this isn’t going to change whether you use the free version of Alfred or the Powerpack.
In fact, we’ve been working on some pretty special and truly amazing new features that you’ll hear about over the next few months. We think these will blow your mind and can’t wait to tell you more.
Cheers,
Andrew & Vero
Good on you guys! Love your work
Indeed — Alfred is definitely more about productivity than search, but the visual similarities are pretty striking. Also, it’s not uncommon for Apple to “learn from” its developer community:
http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/08/apples-research-rip-off-department/
Eager to see what’s next! I do like the idea that Alfred could support “card-style answers”… that could really open up development opportunities:
http://insideintercom.io/why-cards-are-the-future-of-the-web/