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Apple has acquired Workflow, an automation tool for iPad and iPhone

499 点作者 gerosan大约 8 年前

26 条评论

canistr大约 8 年前
Call me pessimistic, but how likely is this acquisition by Apple going to result in them integrating it directly into iOS versus completely shutting down in the future?<p>Perhaps Apple is using the acquisition strategy as a method to shut down an app getting around iOS&#x27;s &quot;preferred workflow&quot; and UX model. Sort of a strategy taken by Microsoft, Google, and Apple whereby they buy competitors, claim to leave the service running, but ultimately shut them down so it doesn&#x27;t compete with their main product (see: Sunrise, Acompli, Sparrow, Timely, etc.)
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hyperbovine大约 8 年前
&gt; Workflow won an Apple Design Award in 2015, with Apple Accessibility engineer Dean Hudson waxed ecstatic about the way that it handled accessibility. “When I first saw the app, I was just like man, this accessibility is cray-cray. This is off the charts!”<p>Wow.
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kainolophobia大约 8 年前
I love that Workflow was started at a hackathon.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mhackswinter2014.devpost.com&#x2F;submissions&#x2F;20204-workflow" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mhackswinter2014.devpost.com&#x2F;submissions&#x2F;20204-workf...</a>
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futurix大约 8 年前
Latest update of Workflow that came out earlier today axed support for Google services and Uber...
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acomjean大约 8 年前
Well since Sal Soghoian was let go and the mac automation group shut down[1]. As a mac user this isn&#x27;t comforting<p>1 <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;9to5mac.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;11&#x2F;17&#x2F;mac-user-automation-sal-soghoian&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;9to5mac.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;11&#x2F;17&#x2F;mac-user-automation-sal-sogho...</a>
seanmcdirmid大约 8 年前
They have had similar tools in the past (automator, quartz composer) and they habitually have abandoned them despite of their success. Why are they making this move now?
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pkamb大约 8 年前
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;viticci&#x2F;status&#x2F;844696444787445761" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;viticci&#x2F;status&#x2F;844696444787445761</a>
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cstrat大约 8 年前
I&#x27;ve had Workflow on my phone for years but have never found any reason to use it. Things that I wanted to do were just out of reach. Someone else mentioned in here changing wifi networks... but also things like: enabling&#x2F;disabling bluetooth, scheduling mute and dnd, scheduling a text message, scripting auto replies to texts based on received texts etc...<p>Hopefully this changes all of that!!
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Ezhik大约 8 年前
I wonder if it&#x27;ll result in just Workflow alone being able to access all the good stuff, like how Swift Playgrounds today is the only iOS coding app with the ability to fork().
djrogers大约 8 年前
Oddly enough, I had a premonition about this happening a few weeks ago. I was thinking about how powerful iOS can be with simple workflow-like scripting, and how much better it would be for iPad productivity if workflow were a &#x27;native&#x27; solution.<p>This is really really great news!
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filleokus大约 8 年前
Could this be a response to the whole &quot;Apple is ignoring the pros&quot;-narrative (albeit planned, I&#x27;m not saying Apple is acquiring companies based on just som bad press)?<p>And yes, yes, we want a MBP with 32 GB ram and a new Mac Pro and all other kinds of stuff, but I still feel there is somewhat of an overlap between the Workflow crowd and the &quot;ignoring the pros&quot;-crowd.
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dmerrick大约 8 年前
This is so exciting! If it&#x27;s an official Apple app, it will get access to all kinds of powerful things that other apps can&#x27;t do.<p>Finally a way to mute my phone when I&#x27;m on a certain wifi network, and other things IFTTT only wishes it could do.
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bitmapbrother大约 8 年前
Best part? It&#x27;s free now. Worst part? If you had any Google workflows they probably don&#x27;t work anymore.
nathanvanfleet大约 8 年前
I find it kind of weird that this is so similar to things like Automator and AppleScript. Which are things that Apple has never really put a lot of work into. They introduce it with sparse features and then it just stays that way forever. Apparently they already released a new version of the software that removes integrations which work with Google etc. So it&#x27;s typical Apple, they&#x27;re pulling back any features that aren&#x27;t helping with Lock in and that&#x27;s about it.
bootload大约 8 年前
<i>&quot;Providing hundreds of actions that interact with the apps and content on your device, Workflow opens up infinite possibilities of what you can do with your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.&quot;</i><p>Interesting that Apple is looking at meta-tools ordinary users can program to organise their workflow over more applications. [0]<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;my.workflow.is&#x2F;docs&#x2F;introduction-to-workflows-and-actions" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;my.workflow.is&#x2F;docs&#x2F;introduction-to-workflows-and-act...</a>
citrusui大约 8 年前
Looks like the Workflow Gallery is completely unavailable, not just closed for new submissions. However, existing Workflow URLs appear to be working if you wait long enough for them to load: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;workflow.is&#x2F;workflows&#x2F;ca14840de5e542c88ceaad0f733f8df8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;workflow.is&#x2F;workflows&#x2F;ca14840de5e542c88ceaad0f733f8d...</a>
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kornish大约 8 年前
Congrats to the Workflow team!
mindcrash大约 8 年前
Congratulations to Ari and the rest of the team!<p>You&#x27;ve come a long way dude!<p>-- mindcrash (your former partner in crime at MacHeist)
amelius大约 8 年前
&gt; a tool that lets you hook together apps and functions within apps in strings of commands to automate tasks<p>I&#x27;m curious, how do they access functionality in other apps? Does iOS provide an API for that? Do the apps somehow cooperate? Or did they hack into the iOS kernel?
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cafebeen大约 8 年前
Reading about Workflow makes me wish HyperCard were still around. If all of iOS was essentially a HyperCard stack, this the kind of automation provided by Workflow would possibly be more natural and powerful. I hope this is a sign that Apple is moving away from the hard line between users and programmers, but maybe that&#x27;s too optimistic.
andyh2大约 8 年前
Congrats Workflow team!
Jonovono大约 8 年前
hah I emailed one of the guys on the team awhile back to ask him for help about how to dissect an iOS app after watching his video about reverse engineering apps. He was super helpful! Awesome to hear this!
intrasight大约 8 年前
Cool. Apple does need such a tool in their ecosystem. The problem is that Apple isn&#x27;t really well regarded in terms of their cloud tools. Will be interesting to see if they nurture it or kill it.
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benguild大约 8 年前
My guess is that this app would have been hurt by an upcoming policy or developer change.
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dalacv大约 8 年前
Bought for the patents
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brilliantcode大约 8 年前
Congratulations. But there&#x27;s one critical skill that lot of us here will not have.<p>Luck.<p>There&#x27;s probably a dozen automation tools out there. There are dozen chat and dating apps as well.<p>Yet all the effort and attention is focused on becoming a lottery ticket.
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