I've personally known Ari, the guy behind Sky, since the mid 2000s when he was a frequent visitor to the forum insanelymac.com, back when OSx86 was a big deal. Even back then, he really stood out and I'm glad he's continuing to make waves.

To jog people's memory about Sky: yes this is the app created by former Shortcuts/Workflow.app people

And another consolidation in the space to make the big players even bigger, when actually it's hard time to break up the tech feudalism party.

btw: Don't know what they think their competitive advantage is going to be with this. Either apple will just clone it, or more likely and quicker (and probably already done) there will be a better open-source version of this that let's you freely choose your local/cloud LLM model provider.

I don’t know how this will help but okay.

> Disclosure: An investment fund associated with Sam Altman held a passive investment in Software Applications Incorporated.

Were there any revenue numbers for this acquisition?

So it begins, they’ve acquired the first half. Now they just need to buy or fork .Net from Microsoft.

Discussed (a bit) here. Others?

Sky, Natural Computing for the Macintosh - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44121891 - May 2025 (4 comments)

Interesting! The folks who built this made what became Shortcuts on iOS. They are great hackers.