From this point of view, what they did what was absolutely correct for their product and their users. They recognized that the Watson application is an incredibly great idea, and having it bundled with their OS, it would make OSX a more viable OS and more complete.
However, we should not be too fast judging Apple. They are now more strongly consider a port on Windows, to keep their company alive. The Karelia folks, obviously unhappy with the sudden change of Sherlock from being a simple search tool, to a Watson-like web service, will most probably take them out of the market in the long run (they sell the product for $29, and reportedly as of now, it is still better than Sherlock 3 as it supports more add-ons and it has an SDK for third party developers to create their own add-ons).
Their new Sherlock search application for OSX 10.2 Jaguar is a direct copy-cat of Watson, and there is no denying in that. 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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