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: Johan Jacobson <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 21:52:38 +0100
I think that know Applescript finaly will be a core technology for Apple.
With the release of Mac OSX and it4s built in power to deal with XML-RPC,
SOAP. That is, you actually have the ablity to call webservices and of
course host webservices and AS is there to take advantage of this.
I see great possibilities to use AS to bring webservices and my applications
together. I think that Apple see this to.
Don4t forget about AS Studio. It let4s me make programs building on other
program, on my Mac, on the internet and so on.
And to get really off topic. I have used Mac OSX since April 2001. I have
had 2 kernel crashes and one time when the computer just wouldn4t respond.
That4s it 3 times in almost a year. How many times have you restarted Mac OS
9 during that time?
I will not go back to cooperative multitasking, non dynamic memory and that
grey window color.
Apple has just the right products right now and that is Mac OSX with
Applescript bringing the true power of Internet rigth in to your copy of
word, filmaker, desktop, yes any application that is scriptable.
Enjoy the future!
//Johan - who really like Mac OS 9 too
P.S RealBasic have been around for quite some time but its not that fun :)
Den 02-01-15 19.45 skrev David Groover:
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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
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Call it intuition, but, I think that Apple is doing away with
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AppleScripting.
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My rational?
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From the numerous and obviously professional folks who repeatedly post here
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about broken versions in the latest AS and Smile versions, it seems obvious
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that Apple is not taking AppleScript very seriously.
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AS, though way cool is also way under utilized. Apple as a company has to
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think out of the box of iconoclasticaly cool, and think into the box of,
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market share.
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My guess?
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I keep seeing more and more cool programs with the label "Made with Real
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Basic". Even Nisus E-mail is made with RB. While I haven't looked into it, I
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see that it always performs flawlessly when I have ever tried a program in
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RB, freeware or commercial.
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Even Macworld's recent trial stuff CD had RB on it. And RB will let you
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write scripts that will also work in Windows, if I heard right. And that is
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a box that Apple may be quietly trying to climb out of. Of course, if it
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does, we AS folks will scream and pitch a fit for a while. But that idea is
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what has been sitting with me. And as time goes by, I can see no reason for
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abandoning it.
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Or maybe, in the back room arm twisting sessions that Apple must have been
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going through to get developers to hurry up and deliver system 10 friendly
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apps, Apple has already conceded that AS is not what new (Cocoa) developers
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need to be interested in supporting?
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Or, maybe, Apple has finally gotten smart and decided not to spend so much
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of its time and it;s resources supporting really old systems. Like
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MicroSquish, they should want everyone to keep buying the latest and the
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greatest they sell. From what I hear on this list, AS in system 10 works
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pretty well. So maybe this is Apples little quite snub to get us all to
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switch to where their money is, system 10.
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Just thoughts.
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Dave Groover
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