Re: "If you build it, they will come" [Re: Sal]
Re: "If you build it, they will come" [Re: Sal]
- Subject: Re: "If you build it, they will come" [Re: Sal]
- From: edmund ronald <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 14:32:00 +0100
As S.J. once said to me , "you are guilty of muddy thinking". Apple like many other companies use standard components and custom ones, things they need that they share with the industry and things they design that they don't share. There is no reason to put scripting in the "core advantage" category, although one might argue that "shell" is one of the things which made Unix so successful :)
HyperCard was Apple's innovation which got buried and a piece of it was then repurposed as an automation tool because they already had it - now it may be time for them to sponsor a new tool:
User scripting is a tool which should be shared, because end-user scripting will become a necessity with IoT.
Every IoT object will need user scripts - because that's what they're for, to have behaviors. And these scripts will need to be industry standard.
As for Google "cloning" stuff, I don't think OS X or Next OS or whatever you care to call it is exactly an innovation, just because you buy something or hire somebody who made a Unix clone (Avi Tevanian) doesn' mean you innovated. There's a full Unix set of scripting utilities and shell scripts running in every Mac, and it certainly gets the job done for ... engineers.
Edmund
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