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iOS 12 Said to Feature Animoji in FaceTime, Deeper Siri Integration, and Do Not Disturb Improvements

I don't think Apple can develop an iOS version that runs faster and better than previous version on the same iDevice. iOS 11 is the new baseline. Thay can say whathever they want about shifting to performance and stability but that doesn't mean you will have a faster iOS according to Apple standards, iOS hasn't introduce real "significant features" in years (calling emojis a significant feature is lame) and every update is already announced as the best ios version yet, however every year performance is degraded if you don't buy the latest device. They already sell billions of devices with this formula and if most of consumers are more than happy with Apple and issues only exists in macrumors forums, why change your budiness model? They won't, it is just PR because is what some customers need to hear right now.
 
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As predicted, plenty of curmudgeons who don't understand the mass appeal (hint: not tech savvy people, general public) of emoji and Animoji. They also don't seem to understand that graphic designers don't work on coding the OS.

1. Emoji are part of the Unicode standard. Yes, Apple are part of the body who develops Unicode, but they don't come up with emoji all on their own.
2. The heavy lifting for Animoji was already part of Face ID. Skinning the framework is trivial in comparison and is something fun that non-tech people like.

We get it, you're too cool for emoji. You're tech hipsters. You've been around since before emoji. Well done. Have a medal or something, but be sure to complain about it because it's a graphical representation. You miserable geezers.
 
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iMi said:
So, they will focus on more Emojis and will highlight the weakest feature of the current ecosystem -- Siri.

Sounds like a winner...
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Emojis I don’t care one way or the other but seeing the beating Siri is taking against competitors in the press it makes sense to concentrate on the voice assistant. Apple can’t afford to be perceived as both behind and indifferent.
 
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Dilster3k said:
Who wants Emoji's on FaceTime?? We want multi conference calls!!!
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I wonder how a conference call would look in office , if we all did it with Animoji.. :D. Apple really put a lot of emphasis on Animoji, have barely used it few times
 
cuwickliffe said:
(Emphasis, mine)

This is honestly a smarter move by Apple. While we get excited by annual updates (and some get annoyed by the ramifications of this), it isn't a terrible move to bring back responsible practices in this era where Chrome is at version 64...
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Good grief! You're right. I had to check myself. I thought it was build 58 a few weeks back...
 
Cmdrx3 said:
Animoji in FaceTime........ Whoopdy Poopy doo! :confused:
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Fixed that for ya! ;)
[doublepost=1518454578][/doublepost]Perhaps they will evolve DND to have multiple groups of settings that you can easily switch between, or even have switch automatically based on time. You could even call them "Profiles" or something....

If only phones like Nokia's of 20 years ago had something like this. There you go Apple, something else to re-invent....
 
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I laugh at people's insistence that each new iOS release come with huge bells and whistles. What are you expecting that you're not getting? I'll gladly take some under the hood improvements.
 
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GoodWheaties said:
You could use the silent switch. It doesn't prevent an alarm from going off but it will only vibrate instead of ringing.
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Unfortunately it doesn’t. I just tried it and the alarm sounded. I’m sure vibrate was on as I typically make sure it is as well as DND. This was the Bedtime Alarm if that makes a difference.

It makes sense that the Bedtime Alarm ignore these DND settings. But it doesn’t make sense if you’ve woken up, driven somewhere and are standing up and sitting down every few minutes thus making the phone sense motion. The phone wasn’t being much of a smart phone that day.
 
iMi said:
So, they will focus on more Emojis and will highlight the weakest feature of the current ecosystem -- Siri.

Sounds like a winner...
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I don't think Tim Cook is worried that you lack faith in their strategy. No company in the history of the world knows as much about winning. They just set another all time world record for revenue in one quarter $88 BILLION, and they are the most valuable company in the history of the world. They've dominated just about every category they've entered as the ankle biters sneered at them for being late, out of touch, overpriced, etc.,

  1. They just reached an installed base of over 1.3 BILLION devices, a 30% growth just two years.
  2. Siri is by far the most used personal assistant in the world, with REGULAR use by over 500 million people.
  3. Just became the largest seller of cell phones in the world, but more importantly, they have over 90% of the ENTIRE cell phone industry profits for smart phones
  4. They now have 85% of contactless payment market in US
  5. They are now largest wireless headphone maker in world
  6. They have over 60% of premium headphone market in world
  7. Apple Music now #2 in the world
I could go on, but you get the point.


Winning!
 
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udayan81 said:
I wonder how a conference call would look in office , if we all did it with Animoji.. :D. Apple really put a lot of emphasis on Animoji, have barely used it few times
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I have 25 year old and younger relatives that use them frequently. The fact that other, usually older, people not only don’t use them but it actually annoys these people probably adds to the attraction of using emojis.
 
Fix the Apps Dock on iPad. Enable Multiuser for iPad for the general public. Let me merge and aggregate my own health/activity data from my current and past Apple Watch models. Move the HomePod settings over to the Settings app. Let me be able to disable Apple Pay from messages in Messenger settings as well as Wallet & Apple Pay. Allow additional fonts... I could go on and on and on...
 
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My iOS 12 wish list:
1. bug fixes and animation improvements
2. dark mode
3. Siri improvements
4. FaceTime with conference calls, screen sharing, and presentation viewing like it used to be in iChat
5. Rethought TV app, because the current one is a complete mess
6. Apple Music with options to switch the KBS
7. Better notifications management, like how it used to be in iOS 6, by app
8. Better Do not Disturb
9. Better Messages app, with tabs on the bottom like every other app. The tabs could be conversations and apps.
10. New text sounds, because all the current ones are trash.
And theres your ten features, there not too big, and none of them should cause much problems and bugs.
 
I think a good year is enough time to devote to fixing bugs and optimizing things. I think that they just became so focused on new features that issues piled up, but if they devote the time to fix the backlog of issues, they can better handle a yearly release cycle with new features. Perhaps they would need to do such focusing every few years or so, but they should be able to manage it without doing that (after they catch up).


adamjackson said:
I would love to do more with Siri.
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Great list of features. Now, I want them too! lol.


xpxp2002 said:
Trying to time everything for a once-a-year big-bang release is a very Jobsian presentation-over-practicality move that apparently only he could effectively coordinate. That strategy just doesn't seem to fit the profile of a Cook-led Apple.
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I don't think it was truly his ability to coordinate, but rather his aggressiveness. Though his reality distortion field would have staff believing it's possible when he says "hey team, I want you to reinvent air", it was his uncompromising nature that had people feeling like they had to do it within a certain amount of time, or the bowels of hell would open up for them and burn them down to their soul. Cook however, is much more considerate, and his social stances reflect this. Staff are probably given freedoms that they didn't have when Jobs was at the helm. And though that's great psychologically, there's pros and cons to everything, so the quality suffers because people aren't so relentlessly striving for excellence because nothing less than excellence will be allowed.
 
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MacRumors said:
Really? The stocks app? Who in there right mind uses that. Thats the first app I remove. And thats whats important.

Additionally, in iOS 12, Apple is planning deeper Siri integration in the iPhone's search view, Do Not Disturb improvements that will give users more options to automatically reject phone calls or silence notifications, a redesigned version of its Stocks app, and a multiplayer mode for augmented reality games.
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EdT said:
I have 25 year old and younger relatives that use them frequently. The fact that other, usually older, people not only don’t use them but it actually annoys these people probably adds to the attraction of using emojis.
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Haha it does annoy a lot of people. And not just older people. Even among my friend group i have been banned from using Animoji. At any rate need to be able to talk to people, not be banned for animoji lol. So it further decreased my usage of those to the point i don't even use it anymore. It gets boring after all to annoy with the same trick.
 
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imronburgundy said:
I laugh at people's insistence that each new iOS release come with huge bells and whistles. What are you expecting that you're not getting? I'll gladly take some under the hood improvements.
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You’re absolutely correct. It’s about incrementally building, making refinements and improvements. When iOS 11 released last year and was debuted at WWDC 2017 in June, everybody was complaining that iOS 11 was boring and resembles exactly like iOS 10. iOS does not have to be an entirely new platform every single year. Many don’t seem to understand that, but you do.
 
YaBe said:
They should go to a 2 year schedule, keep improving each month with small update and a new major version every 2 years.

There's no need for a new .x release each year for the sake of it, slower major update, faster bug fixes.
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They used to have a 2 upgrade cycle with the Mac:
10.5 Leopard was a huge designer change with over 300 new features
10.6 SnowLeopard was a refinement with very little change
10.7 Lion was also touted to have over 250 new features
10.8 Mountain Lion was a small upgrade. It worked very well for a while, but then Yosemite happened
 
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