polymnia

redefiler said:

leavingthebigg said:

Hey Mike Wuerthele, here is the Twitter link to Marco Arment's tweets about why Google apps are no longer supported by Workflow: 

https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/844918589803184129

If I had not read Marco's tweets nearly two weeks ago I would have thought Apple dropped Google app support because it was Google as you had written. Others will just take your writing as truth and blame Apple due to not having a clearer understanding of why app support was dropped. Maybe an update to this article could be provided to clear up what occurred.

I agree.  The false negativity Mike cast on Apple has already spawned several cliché 'monkey-see, monkey-do' pile-ons here in the comments. 

Sloppy.

It makes perfect sense why all this was hush-hush, and it isn't anything anti-Google or Apple-always-does-this or some other such conspiracy.

Each Workflow-integrated company that signed the contract to explicitly allow Workflow access made Workflow more valuable to Apple. If one of those companies caught wind of the pending sale, they might insist on a licensing fee or some other fee as a condition of signing the agreement, knowing they had a lot of leverage to derail a deal that Workflow very much wanted to seal. Or they might have tried to derail the deal in other ways if they really hated the idea of Apple picking up this automation platform at pennies on the dollar (compared to developing in-house from scratch). There is no good that could come from either Apple or Workflow discussing which party knew what about who signed on, when and why.

rotateleftbyte said:

Wooloomooloo said:

sog35 said:

took me 10 seconds. 

My iPhone 3GS upgraded in 13msecs  

I am not sure why the 1st idiot to answer this thread had to talk out of his/her arse. My iPhone 6 took a little over 90 mins.

That's SOP for SOG35. Just get used to it.

Hint: AI's forums allow for an ignore list. 

I now now enjoy the site again 👍🏼

ireland said:

polymnia said:

kamilton said:

slurpy said:

sog35 said:

They should name it Tim Cook Campus

But for the past year you've been shrieking that Cook is unfit to clean toilets and should be removed from Apple ASAP. Now the campus should be named after him?

One of the qualities of a great mind is the ability to change opinions.  Kind of like upgrading software.  More Americans should try it.  Launch an alternative App, or hell, even boot up in a different OS (Ontology).  This is a quick way to debug your extensions folder and remove cognitive dissonance.  All human conflict comes from people refusing to upgrade.  I applaud Sog.  If Tim really screws up, Sog will call him out.  In the mean time, with shares up and services revenue expanding, it's time for some well-earned bliss.

Is it time to take him off my ignore list?

Good idea. Not off.

AI has become enjoyable again since I've added him to the ignore list. Seeing someone write that he's saying reasonable things made me wonder if it's time to take him off timeout. 

There is a great iOS-centric podcast called Canvas that has covered this app in great detail. Still haven't cleared my own mental blocks with this app, but one day I'll take the time to really learn it.