... and vice versa. ;-)
On the topic of why Sherlock (as a web services container) never really took off:
1.) Not much international value so far (been mentioned before)
2.) Too slow (been mentioned before)
3.) It's a bl**dy interface nightmare for people! Find File was okay. Sherlock 1 was Find File, basically, renamed. And then came that ugly Brushed Metal look (which most DEFINITELY was ugly back in the days of Mac OS 8/9) and along with it, slowly over time, more and more features that transformed Sherlock into something completely different, giving the Finder the ability to 'Find Files' back (which was perfectly okay for all of us who didn't understand why Apple chose to 'invent' Sherlock as an external application in the first place!). Now we have something that "isn't". Everybody knows what Sherlock "isn't". But I guarantee you that more than 80% of Mac users have no idea about what it is (and with it, what Watson is) or should be.
If Apple wants to do Web Services the right way (and why not, it would make sense after making their own browser, too), they should kill Sherlock and make something else. Give it an iName if it helps to provide users with an idea of what it's doing...
On the topic of why Sherlock (as a web services container) never really took off:
1.) Not much international value so far (been mentioned before)
2.) Too slow (been mentioned before)
3.) It's a bl**dy interface nightmare for people! Find File was okay. Sherlock 1 was Find File, basically, renamed. And then came that ugly Brushed Metal look (which most DEFINITELY was ugly back in the days of Mac OS 8/9) and along with it, slowly over time, more and more features that transformed Sherlock into something completely different, giving the Finder the ability to 'Find Files' back (which was perfectly okay for all of us who didn't understand why Apple chose to 'invent' Sherlock as an external application in the first place!). Now we have something that "isn't". Everybody knows what Sherlock "isn't". But I guarantee you that more than 80% of Mac users have no idea about what it is (and with it, what Watson is) or should be.
If Apple wants to do Web Services the right way (and why not, it would make sense after making their own browser, too), they should kill Sherlock and make something else. Give it an iName if it helps to provide users with an idea of what it's doing...