Re:Apple has acquired Workflow, an automation tool for iPad ...
by fauigerzigerk on Thursday March 23, 2017 @06:06AM
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This is all just speculation. We don't know anything. But it's possible that there was a difference in opinion about what sort of user to target.
Courting power users used to be much more popular than it is today. It seems that today all large tech companies target IT professionals and consumers with a completely separate set of offerings. There's very little in between any more. On the consumer side they go for ultimate scale because nothing else moves the needle for them.
It wouldn't surprise me if Apple had decided to deprecate everything that isn't accessible to all consumers, which would have frustrated someone who has worked for decades to let power users automate tasks in ways that the average consumer never would.
As I said, all pure speculation for our entertainment :-)
Courting power users used to be much more popular than it is today. It seems that today all large tech companies target IT professionals and consumers with a completely separate set of offerings. There's very little in between any more. On the consumer side they go for ultimate scale because nothing else moves the needle for them.
It wouldn't surprise me if Apple had decided to deprecate everything that isn't accessible to all consumers, which would have frustrated someone who has worked for decades to let power users automate tasks in ways that the average consumer never would.
As I said, all pure speculation for our entertainment :-)