Re: AppleScript
Re: AppleScript
- Subject: Re: AppleScript
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 20:34:58 -0500
On Dec 7, 2007 8:10 PM, Paul Scott <email@hidden> wrote:
> Call me silly, but I cringe when I have to install some third-
> party product to replace something Apple provides--especially
> something as integrated into the OS experience as AppleScript
> --simply because it doesn't measure up.
OK!
Ahem:
You're silly!
Happy now?
:)
I really do think it's silly, though. I don't much care where my
software comes from, as long as it does what I want. For my money, my
iMac came with way too much stuff that I don't need preinstalled, just
wasting disk space. But Apple's hardly unique in that respect;
off-the-shelf PC's are the same way, and usually worse because of the
number of parties involved in their production.
IMO, Apple's job is to provide me with a great-looking environment
that's also a platform for software that does what I need. If they
want to also supply some of that software themselves, great - I use
iPhoto, iTunes, iMovie HD . . . But I think it's unreasonable to
insist that their stuff be the best available. They may know the
platform best, but they're still only one company, and there are a lot
of talented software developers out there. I use Firefox instead of
Safari, Adium instead of iChat, iTerm instead of Terminal, OpenOffice
instead of iWork. Needing a third-party add-on for a particular type
of software development is hardly a dealbreaker.
--
Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
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