Re: [rant] Upgrade to 9.2, any advice?
Re: [rant] Upgrade to 9.2, any advice?
- Subject: Re: [rant] Upgrade to 9.2, any advice?
- From: David Groover <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 13:45:55 -0500
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From: "Rice, Gary" <email@hidden>
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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 10:33:40 -0500
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Apple is quietly down sizing in my opinion.
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Gary
Call it intuition, but, I think that Apple is doing away with
AppleScripting.
My rational?
From the numerous and obviously professional folks who repeatedly post here
about broken versions in the latest AS and Smile versions, it seems obvious
that Apple is not taking AppleScript very seriously.
AS, though way cool is also way under utilized. Apple as a company has to
think out of the box of iconoclasticaly cool, and think into the box of,
market share.
My guess?
I keep seeing more and more cool programs with the label "Made with Real
Basic". Even Nisus E-mail is made with RB. While I haven't looked into it, I
see that it always performs flawlessly when I have ever tried a program in
RB, freeware or commercial.
Even Macworld's recent trial stuff CD had RB on it. And RB will let you
write scripts that will also work in Windows, if I heard right. And that is
a box that Apple may be quietly trying to climb out of. Of course, if it
does, we AS folks will scream and pitch a fit for a while. But that idea is
what has been sitting with me. And as time goes by, I can see no reason for
abandoning it.
Or maybe, in the back room arm twisting sessions that Apple must have been
going through to get developers to hurry up and deliver system 10 friendly
apps, Apple has already conceded that AS is not what new (Cocoa) developers
need to be interested in supporting?
Or, maybe, Apple has finally gotten smart and decided not to spend so much
of its time and it;s resources supporting really old systems. Like
MicroSquish, they should want everyone to keep buying the latest and the
greatest they sell. From what I hear on this list, AS in system 10 works
pretty well. So maybe this is Apples little quite snub to get us all to
switch to where their money is, system 10.
Just thoughts.
Dave Groover