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harywilke on Sept 17, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: iOS 8 reviewed

Apple has had a very long history of absorbing user hacks/extensions into its OS. Pre OSX there were lots if extensions that were bought out or blatantly ripped off that made it into the core of the OS. I'm a bit surprised it's taken them so long on this. I'm a bit surprised that some of the features of XtraFinder haven't been absorbed. Auto adjusting finder column widths are a huge pluses for me

lukifer on Sept 17, 2014 [–]

See also: the Quicksilver/Launchbar/Alfred ideas that are being folded into Spotlight in Yosemite.

The big surprise is not that iOS8 is getting Swype, but that they are opening the APIs up for arbitrary third-party keyboards (albeit heavily curated, I'm sure).

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