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Re:First Look: macOS Monterey Public Beta by simonh on Friday July 02, 2021 @03:10AM (#27708652)
So far unification just seems to be about additive capabilities coming to both platforms. Auto-recognising text in images, tab groups in Safari, shortcuts. Would you rather these came to iOS only like so much has before?

I am concerned they might at some point start taking things away. For now we still have Automator, but maybe not for ever.

I’ll start complaining when valuable MacOS features actually start to be pulled, not before. People freaked out when Microsoft brought out the Metro style UI in Windows 8, saying Apple was going to do the same thing on the Mac, well 9 years later nope, still no sign of anything even close to that drastic. The Mac is still very clearly optimised for mouse and keyboard, and the convergence is just about shared technology.

Re:First Look: macOS Monterey Public Beta by planb on Friday July 02, 2021 @03:22AM (#27708709)
> For now we still have Automator, but maybe not for ever.

Shortcuts is buggy as hell in the beta, but it looks like it will be better than Automator when it's done - even for advanced tasks. What's most important is that third party apps actually support it, and that's way easier with Shortcuts.

Re:First Look: macOS Monterey Public Beta by simonh on Friday July 02, 2021 @04:38AM (#27709165)
Looks like it can even run bash, Python and Perl scripts so maybe we're not going to need Automator anyway.
Re:First Look: macOS Monterey Public Beta by 9dev on Friday July 02, 2021 @04:52AM (#27709248)
Shortcuts on iOS is a godsend, so I'm very optimistic about this.