Re: Scripting Better Applescript support requests !
Re: Scripting Better Applescript support requests !
- Subject: Re: Scripting Better Applescript support requests !
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 14:29:18 +0000
S. J. Cunningham wrote:
> On Feb 22, 2017, at 11:53 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
>> What about we create a script to regularly send mails to Tim Cook
requesting better Applescript support?
>
> i'd rather spend my time creating a script to regularly send mails to
the Board of Directors requesting they fire him.
>
> Steve
> ------------------
> OS X 10.6.8, AppleScript 2.1.2
Are you an Apple shareholder? If not, Apple will—rightly—tell you to
fuck off. Apple is answerable to its shareholders; you are only a
customer. 2. Furthermore—and by your own admission!—you're a really bad
customer. Seriously, if you belive Apple owes you cos you still run a
10-year-old Mac with obsolete software, think again. If you were my bad
customer, I'd have tossed you off my books years ago; you're simply not
worth the trouble.
You know who IS worth the trouble? The half-BILLION iOS users that are
now generate almost all of Apple's revenue, and and at far less cost
per-customer than a few million whiny Mac users do. And worth even more
than that 0.5-billion are the 1.5-billion mobile computing users
currently owned by Google's Android platform, the 0.2-billion more who
will be getting on board before the end of this decade, and the
5-billion other human beings on the planet who will be the markets of
the future.
Apple's job is not to kiss a few legacy-market users' high-maintenance
bottoms; it is to hold on to its current half-billion iOS customers grab
as many of those new customers as it can before Google and Amazon seize
them first.
THAT is the scale—and stakes—at which Apple operates at now:
BILLION-customer markets, TRILLION-dollar turnovers. Winners take
everything; losers, smouldering footnotes in history. Me, you, millions
of Mac users, the Macintosh itself—we are NOTHING in this equation. Get
over yourselves already.
...
You want to know what the FUTURE of End-User Automation is? Go look at
the multi-billion-customer market Amazon has ALREADY started building
with its Echo and Alexa products. THAT is where Apple needs to be
pouring all its smarts and assets right now, not some thoroughly failed
1990s-era product that by all logic should've been dead 15 years ago.
Apple is going to get absolutely stiffed in the next few years by Amazon
and Google. Microsoft can afford to go be the next IBM, ceding consumer
markets it has already lost, and refocusing on selling business products
to business markets at business prices, and hoping it can lock down its
profitable enterprise customers before Google decides to penetrate those
markets too. If Apple loses its consumer markets to A&G, it's done;
it'll collapse so hard so fast there won't be anything left at all.
If Tim Cook and the rest of the Apple board are answerable for anything,
it is for failing to capitalize on the massive headstart that Steve Jobs
created for Apple in the last four years as its CEO. But that is between
Apple's directors and Apple's shareholders.
Customers who are unhappy with—or no longer served by—the products and
services Apple now sells should take their business elsewhere; and
bigger fools them if they don't.
has
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