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"UNIX CLI (shell, python, ruby, perl), System Services, Apple Events (JavaScript, AppleScript, AppleScriptObj-C, Scripting Bridge), Automator, Apple Configurato

"UNIX CLI (shell, python, ruby, perl), System Services, Apple Events (JavaScript, AppleScript, AppleScriptObj-C, Scripting Bridge), Automator, Apple Configurator (AppleScript, Automator), and Application scripting support in Photos, iWork, Finder, Mail, and other Apple applications." I can speculate why Apple has made this decision. Notice the amount of siri integration into macOS? This theoretically makes automation by code the black sheep in Apples grand plan. Do away with code, push voice.

cauterized 10y ago
Yup, that's exactly what my company's open plan office is missing. 50 people muttering aloud at their computers all day.
- blacksmith_tb 10y ago
  And accidentally automating each other's machines...
- bootload 10y ago
  "The integration of an at least partially voice-controlled intelligent digital assistant into a desktop, laptop, and/or tablet computer environment provides additional capabilities to the digital assistant, and enhances the usability and capabilities of the desktop, laptop, and/or tablet computer." "Intelligent Digital Assistant in a Desktop Environment", 2013 Apple patent ~ http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=2&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=(345%2F473.CCLS.+AND+20140807.PD.)&OS=ccl/345/473+and+pd/8/7/2014&RS=(CCL/345/473+AND+PD/20140807) http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...
- Spooky23 10y ago
  I can't wait for the asshole 50 feet away whose quiet voice sounds like a hotdog guy at a baseball game yells "Hey Siri" and 30 computers respond.
redial 10y ago
Voice control is not automation, you just replace using your mouse/keyboard to perform actions with using your voice to perform them, but you still have to do each one. Automation is having the computer perform multiple seemingly disconnected tasks one after the other without supervision. How you start the automated workflow is irrelevant.
SyneRyder 10y ago
The part that really scares me there is "UNIX CLI (shell)". Does that mean Terminal itself could be about to go? I'm sure Apple could explain it away with "there are many third-party offerings like Cathode & Prompt for the handful that need it".

cauterized 10y ago

Yup, that's exactly what my company's open plan office is missing. 50 people muttering aloud at their computers all day.

blacksmith_tb 10y ago
And accidentally automating each other's machines...
bootload 10y ago
"The integration of an at least partially voice-controlled intelligent digital assistant into a desktop, laptop, and/or tablet computer environment provides additional capabilities to the digital assistant, and enhances the usability and capabilities of the desktop, laptop, and/or tablet computer." "Intelligent Digital Assistant in a Desktop Environment", 2013 Apple patent ~ http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=2&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=(345%2F473.CCLS.+AND+20140807.PD.)&OS=ccl/345/473+and+pd/8/7/2014&RS=(CCL/345/473+AND+PD/20140807) http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...
Spooky23 10y ago
I can't wait for the asshole 50 feet away whose quiet voice sounds like a hotdog guy at a baseball game yells "Hey Siri" and 30 computers respond.

redial 10y ago

Voice control is not automation, you just replace using your mouse/keyboard to perform actions with using your voice to perform them, but you still have to do each one. Automation is having the computer perform multiple seemingly disconnected tasks one after the other without supervision. How you start the automated workflow is irrelevant.

SyneRyder 10y ago

The part that really scares me there is "UNIX CLI (shell)". Does that mean Terminal itself could be about to go? I'm sure Apple could explain it away with "there are many third-party offerings like Cathode & Prompt for the handful that need it".