While my argument about waiting made sense a few years ago, nowadays we’ve got Apple Silicon Macs and Shortcuts on mobile is a lot more powerful than it used to be. However, Jason’s article has moved me on this. I wanted Apple to keep the Shortcuts team working exclusively on mobile so it could get better rather than spend its time moving Shortcuts over the Mac. Shortcuts is, practically, the only way to automate on mobile and for years now there has been lots of low-hanging fruit on mobile that Shortcuts has yet to pick. Apple had no automation tools on its mobile platforms until Shortcuts came along. The iPhone and iPad, however, are a much different story.
With a much more open platform and the existence of Apple events, AppleScript, Keyboard Maestro, Hazel, TextExpander, and the ability to run virtually any scripting language via the terminal, there is very little that I can not automate on my Mac. The reason being that automation is alive and well on the Mac. My position on Apple bringing Shortcuts to the Mac has always been, “wait”. I’ve been thinking about that article a lot.
This week Jason Snell wrote an excellent article about the need for Apple to bring Shortcuts to the Mac.
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