Why would I use Flow over IFTTT?
Microsoft Flow
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Re: Microsoft Flow
#32Good thing they picked up a unique name that won't collide with any other similar named projects.
Re: Microsoft Flow
#33Microsoft always gives the vibe of a company that is desperate to salvage some pride from its glory days. It was once a giant, but now they're on the brink of redundancy, in terms of being viewed as "innovative". This opinion may be controversial to many, but it is what a lot of people are thinking. They experiment, which is phenomenal. But none of those experiments have been a major hit. Apple has flagship products…
Microsoft, like every other company, has some failures and some successes, that's the nature of innovation; you stick with the ideas that work and abandon (hopefully quickly) the ones that fail.
You're correct, some of the Microsoft experiments have failed but you need to balance that with the ones that are doing well such as Office365 and Azure.
Re: Microsoft Flow
#34Good thing they picked up a unique name that won't collide with any other similar named projects.
They obviously did some type checking on the name[1]. I'm sure they Squared up the UI elements while they were developing it[2]. The moments before launch must have been pretty tense though[3]. I just hope this service supports file uploads[4].
1. https://github.com/facebook/flow
2. https://github.com/square/flow
Re: Microsoft Flow
#35a new IFTTT competitor. more alternatives: * https://github.com/pjf/exobrain * https://github.com/cantino/huginn/ * https://github.com/bipio-server/bipio * https://github.com/ottawaruby/whenbot
Also https://github.com/node-red/node-red , comes ootb on Raspbian.
Re: Microsoft Flow
#36Microsoft always gives the vibe of a company that is desperate to salvage some pride from its glory days. It was once a giant, but now they're on the brink of redundancy, in terms of being viewed as "innovative". This opinion may be controversial to many, but it is what a lot of people are thinking. They experiment, which is phenomenal. But none of those experiments have been a major hit. Apple has flagship products…
Wait why is apple being held up as an example of an innovative company again? As far as i am aware apple had the ipod in 2001, the iphone in 2007 and the ipad in 2010.
Pretty much every release of any of those items in the last 6 years have been incremental upgrades.
This isnt to be negative on Apple, just saying they are a great quality, style, design company. and an amazing financial success but they havent been innovative for quite some time.
Re: Microsoft Flow
#37Just watched the "how it works" video and I'm less than impressed (can anything impress me these days?).
"Why constantly check e-mail when you can get a text message when anyone important e-mails you..."
Actually, I receive a push notification whenever I receive an email. I'd hate to receive SMS messages instead of e-mails.
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"Say someone tweets something about your company. Set up a flow that follows them, sends a nice reply, adds him to a spreadsheet which then gets sent to Salesforce".
Yeah, so someone tweets "YourCompany fucking sucks!" and now the flow automatically follows him, sends a ridiculous "nice reply" and adds an obviously unsatisfied customer (or whatever) to the CRM..
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"Working smarter, so you can work less and do more",
I think I've heard this promise a thousand times before.
I don't know about the Flow service, but the ad video is quite dumb and uninspired, just like the background music.. who composes all these identical tech ad songs ?
Re: Microsoft Flow
#38a new IFTTT competitor. more alternatives: * https://github.com/pjf/exobrain * https://github.com/cantino/huginn/ * https://github.com/bipio-server/bipio * https://github.com/ottawaruby/whenbot
Is there anything that both has an android client and is open source?
Re: Microsoft Flow
#39Microsoft always gives the vibe of a company that is desperate to salvage some pride from its glory days. It was once a giant, but now they're on the brink of redundancy, in terms of being viewed as "innovative". This opinion may be controversial to many, but it is what a lot of people are thinking. They experiment, which is phenomenal. But none of those experiments have been a major hit. Apple has flagship products…
Wait why is apple being held up as an example of an innovative company again? As far as i am aware apple had the ipod in 2001, the iphone in 2007 and the ipad in 2010. Pretty much every release of any of those items in the last 6 years have been incremental upgrades. This isnt to be negative on Apple, just saying they are a great quality, style, design company. and an amazing financial success but they havent been in…
The funny part is Microsoft under Satya has made a large push to distance themselves from the Ballmer-led Microsoft.
A push for (at least some form of) open-source, a Windows offering that has been more stable and feature-added at launch than several past versions.
I'd gamble on more innovation out of Microsoft than Apple in the next 10 years.
Re: Microsoft Flow
#40Good thing they picked up a unique name that won't collide with any other similar named projects.
They obviously did some type checking on the name[1]. I'm sure they Squared up the UI elements while they were developing it[2]. The moments before launch must have been pretty tense though[3]. I just hope this service supports file uploads[4]. 1. https://github.com/facebook/flow 2. https://github.com/square/flow 3. https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow 4. https://github.com/flowjs/flow.js
They probably used FTP while developing [5] and a lot of online chatting [6].