Re: [rant] "Never mind the quality, feel the width!"
Re: [rant] "Never mind the quality, feel the width!"
- Subject: Re: [rant] "Never mind the quality, feel the width!"
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 21:17:05 +0000
On 02/12/2014 18:49, Alex Zavatone wrote:
And now we have the proper question, "how do we tell Apple how useful AppleScript is to us and how it makes/saves us money and in turn, makes them money"?
That's a more useful question. Although with technologies that don't map
to direct revenue streams there's probably a more general pot of "things
that make power Macs attractive to power users", of which AppleScript is
just one of several existing ingredients. Still, it might be useful to
think what else is on that list, and if there might be some underused
synergy between them: building relationships amongst natural allies is
always a good start.
There's also the question of "Where's the growth?" It's not enough just
to have an established, comfy base, a product needs to grow market to
justify continued investment. And not just any random market, but one
that fits into the business's larger plans and direction. Which, these
days, is all about how quickly you can turn your Facebook about, or
spread the love for some hot new consumer content you've just bought.
This is what bothers me most: that there's no overarching strategy to
any of Apple's ragtag bag of moribund extension, integration, and
automation technologies: Automator (both workflows and macro recording
features), Dashboard, Services, AppleScript, and even gnarly legacy crap
like the Unix shell, one-off ad-hoc "solutions" such as Mail rules,
Contacts rollovers, and Calendar alarms, and of course the underlying
APIs that support it all: Apple events, OSA components, Distributed
Objects, NSBundle, XPC Services, Extensions, and so on.
has
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