Re: "Good News!"
Re: "Good News!"
- Subject: Re: "Good News!"
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 02:38:12 +0000
Jim Underwood wrote:
Thanks for posting that link Steve.
Good News!
Automation technologies will continue to be supported in macOS, Apple exec Craig Federighi says in customer email | 9to5Mac<https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/18/automation-tech-apple-response/>
Nope, Federighi is simply confirming current Automation technologies
will be switching to the Official Legacy Track, where Apple can quietly
leave simple inertia to roll them peacefully to the end of their lifecycle.
Seriously, anyone who straight-facedly says "Great Automation
Technologies" when describing a random sack of has-beens, failed-to-bes,
and total-incompetent-screwups clearly doesn't know what they're talking
about, and clearly cares about knowing even less.
Five years ago I predicted AppleScript had 5-10 years of life left in
it. Today I stand by that prediction. You do the math.
Your one chance to prove my prediction wrong: file those 1000s of Radar
tickets I've mentioned, all telling Apple you WANT SwiftAutomation in
10.13. 'Cos it'll make it a damn sight harder for Apple to contentedly
ignore that pesky AppleScript product to death when there's 10,000 NEW
Swift App developers and Swift 'scripters' all actively building NEW
Apple event-based automation solutions for themselves.
* A week ago, SwiftAutomation was a not-quite-finished plan to infuse
fresh life into the moribund AppleScript world.
* Yesterday, SwiftAutomation was a Direct-to-Apple Petition** that every
AppleScript user could use to prove they want Apple to try once again to
make macOS Automation a _popular_ success.
* As from today, SwiftAutomation is the canary in the coalmine that can
tell us how many more years of macOS Automation we _really_ have left.
Swift is on its meteoric rise. If we can firmly tie AppleScript onto
Swift's coattails within the next 6 months, Swift will pull Automation
back up with it. But you ALL have to tie it first.
Otherwise, you can all go back to pretending everything is just
tickety-boo in magical Mac land where Apple loves us all. While I start
prepping for all the transitional consultancy money that's going to be
made in Mac-to-Windows automation five minutes after the entire Print
Industry detects Apple is just blowing smoke up its ass now while
shaking them down for the final few coins in their pocket.
In product lifecycle management, there is NO "constant". There is ONLY
"up", then "down". And if you haven't got your new product well into its
"up" stage before your last product is starting to run out of "down",
then very shortly after that you won't have _any_ products at all.
Business 101, peeps
(http://www.quickmba.com/marketing/product/lifecycle/). And if you don't
even want to learn that much, I'm sure Craig Federighi will sell you a
great bridge in Brooklyn too.
has
** Also with the cunningly designed advantage that the precise final
tally would _only_ be visible in private to Apple. Unlike the ingenious
twits who thought a change.org petition would be a really brilliant
idea—without also thinking through exactly what their petition would end
up saying about AppleScript—IN FULL PUBLIC VIEW—when it only received 87
signatures after!
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