Re: Sal
Re: Sal
- Subject: Re: Sal
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 13:15:05 +0000
On 17/11/2016 10:46, edmund ronald wrote:
Maybe some new scripting solution is coming eg. Javascript or Python
based and cross-platform for iOS and Mac.
Nope. Sal's sacking tells us nothing about Apple's future plans for
Automation, only Apple's judgement on his performance as its Product
Manager. (Tip: Look up "Peter Principle".)
Reality is, Sal is only *one of many* Apple employees now being laid off
as sales slump, forecasts fail, and accounting tightens belts for
tougher times ahead. Chopping away all the overpaid, underperforming
managerial deadwood that habitually accretes when times are good and
money's cheap is one of the right actions to take. And lovely, useless,
Sal Soghoian was some of the deadest wood on the whole Apple tree.
Product management is fundamentally very simple:
Build new markets, win new customers, keep job.
No users? No job.
Once again, Apple re-discovering that it's not enough just to make
stuff, you actually have to sell it too. Steve Jobs learned that lesson
while he was out in the wilderness. Tim Cook is no doubt learning it
himself right now. Hell, *I've* learned that lesson – taught to me by
Apple itself. Sal had *nineteen fucking years to learn it*, and never
did. If Automation survives and thrives, it will be *because* Sal's
gone, not despite it. And if it dies, it'll be because he wasn't removed
years earlier.
Better luck in your future endeavors, Sal. You're a nice guy and a fine
evangelist, and no doubt you believed you were doing your absolute best
as product manager too, but frankly you were bloody useless at the job
and it's long past time you were out of it. May others now have their
own chance to make this tech shine.
has
(I've more to write on what we the community can do to help try secure
AppleScript's future, but I have urgent client work to do first. Ah,
the fun life of the Working Automator!)
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