Still no Automator / Applescript Support in iWorks 09

Hi everybody,
i find it extremly annoying that there are still no iWork Actions in Automator nor is there any native Applescript Support ! Come on Apple, even the bad guys at Microsoft do have Automator actions in their Office 2008 product. I bought iWork 08 i will not buy iWork 09. Am i the only person who would like to have support for automator and applescript build into the products ?
cheers
Ronny

No, M$ feels they have to lead you by the hand. Apple knows there users are brighter and can do many things themselves.
What are they going to make? How do they know what automator actions will be needed by the community until the scripting is out and available, And they see how we end up using the technology.
Perfect example, they didn't introduce all 350+ functions available in XL in the numbers 1.0 version. They released about 150, then listened to the community to see what we wanted most. THEN they let their engineers go on those points, not WASTING their time and money creating stuff that nobody needs, or only 5% need. Now we have ~100 more functions, and even a new data type, duration, that XL doesn't have. why? because many people were trying to use Numbers to keep track of things like blood pressure logs, jogging logs, etc...
Another real world example, college campus', Believe it or not the best designers of campuses do not put sidewalks in except for around the buildings themselves, not between them. Because they cannot predict what class patterns the students will end up having, or what habits they, as a group, will develop. They wait till about a year later, see where the grass has been worn down to paths and make sidewalks over those paths.
This is classic design paradigms when you have a random, unpredictable user base that could require almost anything from you. Let them start by designing to fit their needs, then make official releases that take those concepts one step further and completely debugged and up to your standards.
Just my second set of two cents,
Jason

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