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The channels included by default were: - Internet - Pictures - Stocks - Movies - eBay - Flights - Dictionary - Translation - AppleCare
This default-channel list is incomplete. Contemporary reviews of Sherlock 3 show it also included a Yellow Pages/Phone Book channel by default.
Full reasoning
The article presents this as the complete set of default Sherlock 3 channels, but contemporary coverage shows there was also a Yellow Pages channel (later referred to as Phone Book).
- In Macworld's 2002 review of Sherlock 3.5 in Jaguar, the channel list is explicitly given as: Internet, Pictures, Stocks, Movies, Yellow Pages, eBay, Flights, Dictionary, Translation, and AppleCare.
- In a 2005 Macworld article about Tiger's Sherlock channels, Christopher Breen says one copy of Sherlock showed eight channels, while his Tiger-installed copy showed ten: the same eight plus Pictures and Phone Book. That confirms the default set was larger than the nine-item list quoted here, and that a phone-book/yellow-pages channel was part of the built-in lineup.
So the claim is inaccurate because it omits the Yellow Pages/Phone Book channel from the list of built-in channels.
2 sources
- Review: Jaguar shows its teeth | Macworld
The Sherlock application includes channels for searching Web sites that include: Internet; Pictures; Stocks; Movies; Yellow Pages; eBay; Flights; Dictionary; Translation; and AppleCare.
- Sherlock and the case of the missing channels | Macworld
I flipped open my copy of Sherlock that was installed with Tiger and I found ten channels as I expected—everything Scholle had plus Pictures and Phone Book (both of which were grayed out).