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Apple Releases macOS Catalina 10.15.1 Update With New Emoji and AirPods Pro Support
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It probably takes 10 minutes to code in the new emoji. The point regarding the damn thing is that it's the first thing on the list juxtaposed to the other major issues with Catalina.
Is this going to fix the issue of Photos not syncing with iCloud?
It's in the App Store, I think $9.00. You might check out their website for a free trial to see how you like it.Never heard of it but I will def check it out. Thanks mate
its not stuck just going VERY slow, showing 58 min and when I stated it it was at 22 min remain. my internet still has tons of avail bandwidth so thats not the issue (since its happening to everyone as well)
NO NO NO NO NO.
Supporting new emojis requires graphics designer resourcing, not software architects. Do you believe, for example, that Apple should scrap their marketing department simply because their money could be better spent on engineering?
I swear these downloads are getting slower and slower.
Love new emojis. No OS should be updated without them!
It's actually really clever marketing that has a lot of user-facing benefits.
If all of these new emojis are available to people only on the latest firmware, it's an incentive for "everyday users" to update their devices. A ten year old with an iPod won't be particularly excited about seeing "security updates and performance improvements", but if they see "70 new emoji", they're going to press that update button faster.
Sure, I don't use emojis extensively, but I know a heck of a lot of people who do. If everyone's on the latest firmware, it helps keep people (effectively) as secure as possible - and Apple has great figures to show off at their next keynote. Nobody loses there at all.
And lets face it: in comparison to the engineering effort going into some of these modern operating systems, having 70 images designed and drawn isn't going to suck up a massive amount of resources.
Maybe they should take some of those billions of dollars in the bank and hire a more competent engineering staff. Nobody can deny that most of the code they have been putting out lately has been pretty ****** in nature.
Wrong. As an example, the new gender-neutral emojis require handling additional Unicode sequences.
Unicode Brings Forward Gender Neutral Timeline
Originally planned for release in 2020, a number of new gender neutral emojis have been moved into a late-2019 update from the Unicode Consortium, following support from 'at least two' major vendors. The creation of Emoji 12.1 [https://emojipedia.org/emoji-12.1/] means an additional 168 emojis...
blog.emojipedia.org
Emoji are a special case that use complex Unicode sequences, compared to normal scripts, because they didn't want code points to balloon (e.g. implementing skin tone and couples), and due to geopolitical issues (flags).
With everything I've seen and heard about Catalina, I'm waiting till 10.15.4 (and I pretty much never wait). It's maybe not quite as bad as Lion was when it was released, but it's not far off...
Maybe not scratch, but I would be fine if they shrunk the marketing budget. As far as I know, the budget for marketing has been growing in recent years as the iPhone matured. I'd rather have more money going into developing stable software and awesome hardware (working keyboards would be nice) than shiny promotion videos.
Mine keeps downloading, as it is about to finish, the progress bar goes away and I get the same message about update available, hit it again, and the download starts all over again. I tried restarting but no luck.
Well, let's not forget that many people are idiots. QED.
I'm beginning to think the move to Apple Park is to blame for the downward trend in quality. Or maybe it's because Mars is not in retrograde.
Catalina, in Spanish, means Poop. I’m not saying, but probably a good choice of naming this OS?
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I don't think that's a fair assessment at all. I'll bet 90% of the iOS user-base don't care at all about the crazy technology at their fingertips, and just use it as a means of communication. That's who the "70 new emoji" line targets.
The remaining 10%'s probably made up of idiots and the technical folks... not sure how I'd divide that one up though.
High Sierra security update showing on my mid 2011 mac mini too.
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I just updated and tried to find its icon base on the file name but nothing shows up.