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Re: Push for AppleScript in OS X
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Re: Push for AppleScript in OS X


  • Subject: Re: Push for AppleScript in OS X
  • From: John Christie <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 09:32:58 -0400

At 8:46 AM +1100 2/2/01, Shane Stanley wrote:
It's not hard to imagine that, not long after OS X comes out, AS could be
put into maintenance mode. Times are tight (again) in Cupertino. It's not a
selling point in the consumer market, it's underused in education except for
things like lab management, and a lot of the big users in publishing keep
quiet about it,


The big publishers don't keep quiet about it to Apple. If you've listened to Apple's business plans lately it is pro customers that they are trying to go after right now. The fact that this is not a consumer selling point is why the consumer apps and utilities don't have it. But, Applescript is not going away.
My only concern is that larger customers won't complain about OS X because their staff will be able to figure out how to get by with BSD tools.
So, it is appropriate to complain. But believing that Apple will abandon it because it doesn't fit the consumer market doesn't jive with their business plan at all.


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