Grammarly, 1Password, LanguageTool: Is Apple sending these top apps to ruin? | Life & Knowledge
The Stock exchange seems to agree: Apple's new software announcements were a technological bombshell! The iPhone company's shares shot up by more than seven percent on Tuesday – to their highest level ever.
But for many smaller companies, this could Apple event on Monday evening financial difficulties. BECAUSE: The technology giant has simply adopted their functions and integrated them into its own operating system free of charge.
BILD shows which top apps could now have problems.
1Password, Dashlane and LastPass
Apple announced its new iPhone operating system iOS18 (coming in autumn) offers its own password manager. In addition to access data for websites, this can also be used to store Wi-Fi passwords.
The biggest highlight: The app will also be available for Windows. This means that the data can be synchronized between almost all platforms. This makes life difficult for Apple for other password managers such as 1Password, Dashlane or LastPass.
This is what the new Apple password manager looks like
► Conclusion: Apple's password competition will be tight in the future. The apps will probably only be able to win over Android users and customers with special security interests.
LanguageTool and Grammarly
At the end of his event, Apple and introduced a number of new features that were Artificial intelligence (AI). This includes an assistant for proofreading and reformulating texts. In other words, with the same functions that apps like LanguageTool or Grammarly offer.
BUT: Apple's text assistant has two major drawbacks: Firstly, you need an iPhone 15 Pro (from 1199 euros, not very common) or a device that has an M1 chip or newer processor (iPad or Mac). And: The AI can only speak English so far, and the device language must even be set to “English (USA)”.
One click and Apple AI corrects a text or rewrites it if desired. You can even choose the style in which the new text should be formulated: friendly, professional or concise
Conclusion: Apple is not yet a threat to LanguageTool and Grammarly. Over the next few years, however, LanguageTool and Grammarly could face painful competition – if old iPhone are replaced by new ones and the Apple AI has learned new languages.
Magical image editing
Apple has had basic image editing functions on board for a long time. But there is a new addition that could make many smaller apps redundant in the future: With a new clean-up tool, you can remove distracting objects in the background of photos – such as strangers. This is also made possible by AI. A number of paid programs from the App Store do something similar.
Is someone in the background disturbing you in your family photo? This can soon be easily remedied using Apple's onboard tools
Conclusion: The innovations in text correction and image processing will become a competitor killer if the Apple AI not only works on the expensive iPhone 15 Pro. But then at the latest, things could get tight for the current top apps.