![]() ![]() I've seen the benefits and power of individuals being able to automate critical and repetitive tasks. “The need for user automation is a constant. It may be a dark reflection on an Apple that thinks Emojis on the Touch Bar are more important than enabling user programmable functions that Soghoian also states: If user automation technologies are important to you, then now is the time for all good men and women to reach out, speak up and ask questions,” he writes. It may be up to Mac users to stand up for the technologies Soghoian helped build: “Seriously, if you have any questions or concerns about the future of user automation, ask Apple. To you people who bitched yesterday about a $300 book. Īpple has let (Sal Soghoian) go! He’s been a critical element in Mac automation tech for decades You made the Mac a better computer for everyone. Thank you, Sal Saghoian, for your decades of passion and genius. Terrible news from Sal Saghoian's talk at #mt2016 - His position at Apple as Czar of User Scripting & Automation is terminated. The following Tweets from across the community show the depth of feeling: ![]() I hope I’m wrong,” writes Daring Fireball. “I find this to be a profoundly worrisome turn of events for the future of the Mac. The news has sent a shockwave through the core community of Mac users, who have known the man personally and professionally for decades. MacObserver notes, “Mac automation has been in a tenuous position for years since with features slowly disappearing with OS X, and now macOS, updates.” Shockwave Soghoian’s keynote moment came in 2004, when he joined Steve Jobs on stage to demonstrate Automator.Īpple’s decision to axe Soghoian’s role suggests the company has no further interest in developing user scriptable tools, which will do nothing to negate concerns at the company’s future in the professional markets. In the past you could use them to enable voice control on Macs in the days before Siri, and you can still obtain a huge collection of insanely great scripts from Doug’s AppleScripts. Soghoian was in charge of macOS user automation technologies. ![]()
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