On: Alfred and OS X 10.10 Yosemite

[sutterbomb]

Impressive timing for a response. Wonder if they had a little birdy that tipped them off beforehand?

[dangoor → sutterbomb]

Probably just quick typists. Alfred (of which I'm a user) was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw a screenshot of the new Spotlight.

[cake → dangoor]

From what I can see, it looks like Spotlight is becoming smarter and closer to alfred than ever. It dosen't look like the dumb file finder they seem to present it to be.

[amirmc → cake]

Only in some ways. I doubt it will be as customisable nor the developers as responsive to feedback.

[samskeller → dangoor]

Yeah, the new Spotlight seems to be almost inspired by Alfred

[jlavarj → sutterbomb]

This post and comments just convinced me to give Alfred a try. I always thought it was just a UI for spotlight.

[danudey → jlavarj]

Alfred is built on Spotlight in the same way that Dropbox is built on the local filesystem. It uses it for the backend, but it provides features far and above the core functionality by doing a lot more with that data than simply accessing it.

[peedy → sutterbomb]

The screen shots were leaked a few hours before the keynote started. So, they might have seen it coming.