

It’s very encouraging that Shortcuts isn’t just alive at Apple, it’s alive and seemingly thriving.īut there’s a part of me that thinks Shortcuts as a first-party automation technology should be even further along than it is after five years inside Apple. Until Apple showed that they were committed to Shortcuts post-acquisition, there really was no system-wide automation story for iOS. The biggest improvement, of course, was bringing it to MacOS this year, with cross-platform compatibility with iOS wherever it makes sense, but also enabling Mac-only actions like executing AppleScript and shell scripts. First, Shortcuts seems to be improving at a faster pace than ever before. I’m of two minds about the current state of Shortcuts. Viticci was far ahead of his time in seeing the potential for Workflow/Shortcuts. I was reminded of this anniversary via John Vorhees, who linked to this prescient piece by Federico Viticci written shortly after the acquisition. It had built up a sizeable number of users and The service IFTTT, in that it allows people to group together aīunch of actions that can allow them to perform complicated tasks Workflow has been around for a couple of years and we’veĬovered it and its updates. The iPod Linux days and covered his very useful DeskConnect

The app was made by a small team that includes Ari Weinstein, aįormer iPhone jailbreaker. Get Ari Weinsteins email address () and phone number (310-740. Team members include Ari Weinstein, Conrad Kramer, Veeral Patel and Nick Frey. Dun & Bradstreet collects private company financials for more than 23 million companies worldwide. You no longer have to imagine, as DeskConnect, Inc. Valuable research and technology reports. One for a while but were able to confirm just now that the ink on Dynamic search and list-building capabilities. Tool that lets you hook together apps and functions within apps in Five-Year Anniversary of Apple’s Acquisition of Workflow, Which Is Now ShortcutsĪpple has finalized a deal to acquire Workflow today - a
