Why won't Apple bring back "Save As" sinc…

KOENIG Yvan

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Dec 11, 2011 10:04 AM in response to Csound1

Why wait when my script already give the feature ?

As far as I know, AppleScript don't hurt those which use it.

Linked to a shortcut, the posted script do the wanted job.

There is a version encapsulated in a Service to which we may also attach a shortcut.

Just matter of taste.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 11 décembre 2011 19:04:15

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Csound1

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Dec 11, 2011 10:06 AM in response to KOENIG Yvan

Mainly because I use Excel & Word (old habits) so this particular storm in a menu is 'observation only' 🙂

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Dec 11, 2011 1:13 PM in response to David Lemor

You have to remember that Steve Jobs' mantra (or one of them) was "the best possible user experience". Which means his/Apple's idea of what "most" average users will like.

When you move your target market from professionals (scientists, educators and the like) to the average home consumer, you need to dumb things down and make things like a toaster... One, maybe two buttons. Too many choices are an anathema to the lowest common denominator.

More advanced users or those with different needs have to accept those changes even if they mean dealing with bugs in a new version of IOS because Apple won't let you revert to a working version. We have to accept those changes even if we don't want or need them, they get in the way of productivity or make us change the way we've been doing things for 25-30 years.

Fortunately, at the moment we can revert back to Snow Leopard. The programs we run on it will run on Snow Leopard and our current machines forever. Of course, that means no more updates to much of our software as they start to require Lion. When that happens we're stuck with the bugs. No more access to Mobile Me as Snow Leopard doesn't support iCloud and Mobile Me is going away.

Reverting will keep us going for awhile. But at some point it'll be upgrade or quit using our Macs. Resistance is futile, we WILL be assimilated. "Don't think different, think our way."

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Dec 12, 2011 4:30 AM in response to David Lemor

@David,

remember you can ask your Lion money back.

I did and I got it.

Regards

Stefano

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Whitecity

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Dec 12, 2011 9:29 AM in response to Csound1

I think this is the way forward - I find myself increasingly reaching for Word over Pages, even though Pages is the nicer program, because of the Kafkaesque duplicate nonsense.

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Dec 12, 2011 1:27 PM in response to Whitecity

Whitecity wrote:

I think this is the way forward - I find myself increasingly reaching for Word over Pages, even though Pages is the nicer program, because of the Kafkaesque duplicate nonsense.

Don't give up the ship. You shouldn't have to abandon a far more usable application just because Apple thinks it knows best for your workflow. I will continue to shout from the rooftops that Auto Save and Versioning should be capable of being disabled in the iWork apps.

I am still waiting for someone...anyone...to give me a rational reason why Auto Save/Versioning could not be the default for these apps, but capable of being disabled by the user's choice in System Preferences (or within the app itself).

It's been months now, and no one has come close to answering this simple question. There have been attempts to do so, and when the faulty logic in these attempts is pointed out, those who put them forth simply slink away rather than admitting their errors.

I'd also like someone to explain why it is preferable for Apple to **** off a substantial percentage of its user base — when they could, with this simple stroke, make EVERYONE happy.

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