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When I was a child, an 8-bit microcomputer that did almost nothing was a huge middle-class first-world indulgence, a tiny glimpse of what potential might be hidden in those even tinier silly-con chips, to someday change the entire world.

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I have now been scripting and automating for 16 years-the last 8 professionally-and have barely even begun to realize the true full potential of text-driven computing, and what it could/should/would be doing-not just for me but for every woman, man, and child on this entire planet! They're fucking useless, and quite frankly the AppleScript community hasn't done any better either.īut first things first. It may only be 12% of a plan, but that's still 12% more than Apple in general or Sal Soghoian in particular has been able to come up with in the last 10 years.

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Something that merely makes a small percentage of pro and prosumer users much, much more productive when it isn't just shitting on them instead But I’m dreadfully afraid of a future where MacOS is devolved to iOS’s state, with no supported automation technologies.ĪppleScript Automator Extensions Mac macOS 10.12 Sierra

I’d prefer to see iOS gain serious automation capabilities - even if it’s an altogether new technology. Previously: Tell Us Your Mac Automation Stories, Thank You, Sal. This is pretty much what I feared was Apple’s thinking.īased upon the information presented in this overview, it is clear that App Extensions do not provide the same abilities and functionality as the User Automation technologies of macOS, and objectively should not be considered a comparable replacement for them. Certainly Automation would be something examined in that regard, and the idea might be posited that: “App Extensions are equivalent to, or could be a replacement for, User Automation in macOS.” And by User Automation, I’m referring to Apple Event scripting, Automator, Services, the UNIX command line utilities, etc. In such a scenario it may seem logical to retain application features common to both platforms and to remove those that were perceived to require extra resources. Let’s imagine that Apple decided to combine their engineering resources to form app teams that delivered both iOS and macOS versions of applications. Sal Saghoian (via Federico Viticci, Todd Ditchendorf): App Extensions Are Not a Replacement for User Automation