Back in November, Sal Soghoian shared publicly that his role at Apple was eliminated after almost 20 years leading AppleScript, Automator, and automation efforts at the company. Now Soghoian has resurfaced online with a new guest series covering automation at MacStories.
In his first entry, Soghoian argues in favor of continued automation services on the Mac versus relying on app extensions that work across iOS and macOS.
Blogging as an advocate for automation on the Mac isn’t totally new for Soghoian who published at macosxautomation.com during his tenure at Apple. Still, it’s notable to see Soghoian resurface with a guest series after the news in November.
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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.
Whether that means maintaining current automation technologies or creating new that works across iOS and macOS is still up in the air, but it seems Soghoian will remain an advocate for power automation on the Mac.
