Re: AS adoption barriers [Starter Kit]
Re: AS adoption barriers [Starter Kit]
- Subject: Re: AS adoption barriers [Starter Kit]
- From: Ken Grimm <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 09:37:28 -0500
On 9/24/01 11:27 PM, Chris Nebel at email@hidden didst forever and
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Does anyone here bother to read the online help?
Evangelize, evangelize, evangelize.
AppleScript, in my humble opinion, is by far the most under-evangelized part
of the Mac experience. I have NEVER seen it touted as a major reason for
buying a Mac, although it is the ONLY reason Macs have remained the platform
we do all of our prepress production work on. I was able to fend off a very
nasty proposed platform conversion change (for the sake of "compatibility")
a few years ago by the IT guys -- AppleScript was my Silver Bullet. They
could come up with no alternative on the Windoze platform to match it.
AppleScript saved Macs in my organization. Not OS X, not the latest QXP, not
the speed of the G4 -- it was AppleScript alone.
Without AppleScript, our entire organization would be Windoze. Period. And
no advertisement, NOTHING by Apple I've seen in the tradebooks or pooter
media has made this point. Apple has the single most powerful munition in
it's arsenal to make Windoze a thing of the past, and it sits there,
unrealized by the majority of users.
I *stumbled* across the Guidebooks, downloaded and installed every one of
them (an afternoon's work) and it has been one of the greatest things I've
ever done. NO ONE told me they were there or available. NO OTHER resource
told me to go and get these great things.
If a beginner is frustrated, a years-long user like myself gets frustrated
to the nth degree by having to -- on your own -- go out and dig for the good
stuff that's there. I spend a significant part of my days I have set aside
for scripting just digging for the gold nuggets. I try to placate my
frustration by treating it as a "treasure hunting" adventure on company
time -- I try to internalize the search as a "fun" exercise.
Mac Addict, MacWorld -- Apple -- where are the books, the on-going stories,
the AppleScript monthly columns and such telling about all this great stuff?
Where are the AppleScript trumpets in the Apple Enews?
The Evangelizing of AppleScript, saturating the user with it at every
opportunity is missing -- others have posted making these points also.
The point Apple seems to miss entirely is THERE IS NO MATCHING TECHNOLOGY ON
THE WINDOZE PLATFORM. Lock and load, boys -- put Windoze in the crosshairs.
AppleScript can take em out.
Ken Grimm
Prepress - Graphic Design & Layout - Master Typographer
Production Automation Systems Integration
email@hidden