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.

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. But, I still believe my credo to be as true today as ever,” he wrote. Consequently, I am no longer employed by Apple Inc. Recently, I was informed that my position as Product Manager of Automation Technologies was eliminated for business reasons.

“I joined Apple in January of 1997, almost twenty years ago, because of my profound belief that “the power of the computer should reside in the hands of the one using it.” That credo remains my truth to this day.

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