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OS X 10.10.3 Puts More Focus on Emoji, Lays Groundwork for Skin Tone Modifiers

HenryDJP said:
Well "WE" isn't the rest of us and if YOU don't see any benefit of the Emoji then simply ignore the article. I mean, it's just an article. Not everybody is having the same issues so I couldn't care less for some of the things some people here wish Apple would do, but they need to voice their opinion elsewhere that counts such as directly to Apple because this isn't the place.

I get so sick of coming here daily and seeing something that might be an interesting article only for it to be bombarded with rude and nasty comments ruining the entire thread. Once again, if something is not of interest to you or someone else they should ignore the article because bitching here only throws it in other member's faces and not Apple's.
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If you are trying to get people to change, you are fighting a losing battle.
Commenting with ones opinion here whether a subject is about something that s used by a consumer is just that : an opinion, comment, gripe etc.

Many comments make me shake my head, but I am sure people do that about mine.

Over time I now mostly read the articles. May be that would work for you too.
 
RedOrchestra said:
That's why we're hanging around - so someone can tell us what benefit Emoji play in the OS operating system - can you tell us?
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A standardized means of communicating emotion and some other common everyday facts of life. Works the same on OS X, Windows, iOS, Android and others. Pretty cool, huh?
 
chucker23n1 said:
A standardized means of communicating emotion and some other common everyday facts of life. Works the same on OS X, Windows, iOS, Android and others. Pretty cool, huh?
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it's a sad, sad thing to see computes being used to 'communicate emotion'.

and that appel puts so much efort on this crap instead of fixing the OS is even sadder.

cheers
 
chucker23n1 said:
A standardized means of communicating emotion and some other common everyday facts of life. ... Pretty cool, huh?
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Chucker - you really want to "communicate emotion" - dial them up - how utterly impersonal can one be.

What Emoji would YOU use when sending sympathies when someone loses a loved one? Would you use an Emoji with your skin tone or the skin tone of the one who died - if they were a different race than you?
 
Luis Ortega said:
The saddest part is that apple's user base has grown so amateurish and infantile that they peddle emojis to them as a valuable aspect of a new OS.

Maybe someone else can come up with an OS designed to run apple computers instead of apple toys because apple has totally lost the plot.
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Exactly how have Apple 'peddled emojis as a valuable aspect of a new OS'?! All they did was enable support for emojis, and put in the groundwork for the change in Unicode. They don't advertise emojis anywhere on their site for Mac/MacBooks. Sites like this are the ones that make it prominent by doing news stories, which is not the same.

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b0fh666 said:
it's a sad, sad thing to see computes being used to 'communicate emotion'.



and that appel puts so much efort on this crap instead of fixing the OS is even sadder.



cheers
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Like what they did here took 'so much effort'. Also there's different teams for different things. You obviously don't understand how it works.

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RedOrchestra said:
Chucker - you really want to "communicate emotion" - dial them up - how utterly impersonal can one be.



What Emoji would YOU use when sending sympathies when someone loses a loved one? Would you use an Emoji with your skin tone or the skin tone of the one who died - if they were a different race than you?
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So, you've never sent a smiley or anything in a message? Not even the basic :) ?

You're really going for absurd extremes with your examples, it's hysterical. You obviously backed yourself into an idiotic corner and now flailing wildly. Either that or you're trolling.
 
omg, an emoji user telling me that i don't understand how software development works.

let me use some emojis :p:p:cool::rolleyes:
 
OS X 10.10.3 Puts More Focus on Emoji, Lays Groundwork for Skin Tone Modifiers

b0fh666 said:
omg, an emoji user telling me that i don't understand how software development works.



let me use some emojis :p:p:cool::rolleyes:
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Well you're the one that showed obvious signs that you didn't understand how development works.

No need to be a dick in your response though.
 
Very nice change #

They're much better sorted, easier to access thanks to the scrolling, easier to choose from thanks to the bigger palette, and these new colored emojis will be the cherry on top, although I'm caucasian.

I'm still missing the Middle Finger Emoji though. C'mon, Apple. :mad:
 
Thunderhawks said:
If you are trying to get people to change, you are fighting a losing battle.
Commenting with ones opinion here whether a subject is about something that s used by a consumer is just that : an opinion, comment, gripe etc.

Many comments make me shake my head, but I am sure people do that about mine.

Over time I now mostly read the articles. May be that would work for you too.
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Very good advice indeed.

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RedOrchestra said:
Chucker - you really want to "communicate emotion" - dial them up - how utterly impersonal can one be.
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About as impersonal as you are being communicating with faceless humans over the internet. :p
 
OS X 10.10.3 Puts More Focus on Emoji, Lays Groundwork for Skin Tone Modifiers

RedOrchestra said:
NO. I'm well past being a teenager.
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Wow, you're one uptight boring person (see, I can make a baseless assumption too).

Emojis aren't just for teenagers. I'm in my late 39's, I use them. I know many people that use them. These are people in their 30's, up to their 70's. Emojis aren't just for teenagers.

Emojis make messages less impersonal. Do you ever send texts? If you do, then you're just as impersonal as you accuse others of. ;)

Also, I notice you skipped past responding to my point that you're making absurd examples, with the losing the loved one comment.
 
shandyman said:
Well you're the one that showed obvious signs that you didn't understand how development works.

No need to be a dick in your response though.
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i know very well how it works.

you have a budget. you can choose to spend it improving your software, or choose to add ridiculous useless 'features' instead.

OSX is an operating system AFAIK. this kind of nonsense has no place in an operating system.

and that expressing emotions trough electronic devices is still sad. and pathetic.
 
b0fh666 said:
i know very well how it works.

you have a budget. you can choose to spend it improving your software, or choose to add ridiculous useless 'features' instead.

OSX is an operating system AFAIK. this kind of nonsense has no place in an operating system.

and that expressing emotions trough electronic devices is still sad. and pathetic.
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I highly doubt Apple is taxing their budget with this, or pulling people from the other teams. If this was a small comoany, that'd make sense. This is Apple, though.
 
well, given how buggy yosemite still
is i'd say it's lacking budget on the networking department :)
 
b0fh666 said:
i know very well how it works.

you have a budget. you can choose to spend it improving your software, or choose to add ridiculous useless 'features' instead.

OSX is an operating system AFAIK. this kind of nonsense has no place in an operating system.

and that expressing emotions trough electronic devices is still sad. and pathetic.
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Haha. You don't realise that they'll have teams dealing with different parts of the OS? This isn't a feature. It's a minor tweak to something that's been there for years. It wouldn't have taken much time or effort for them. Just because it's visible, you've deemed that they've spent all their time just doing this, or at least you're acting like it.

Also, emojis are no different to other special characters that have been part of the OS for years. You saying all special characters are nonsense?!

So, you prefer to be cold and emotionless when you sent a text? Never sent one smiley?
 
chrono1081 said:
Because heaven forbid they appeal to all users :rolleyes:
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Haha indeed. The minority of the userbase, even the minority's in the forum, decide that because they hate emojis, that because a small amount of time was spent doing this (and it would be small), that Apple have spent a lot of money and months working on this, whilst none of the staff at Apple have been working on other things. (Newsflash, they have! Take photos for example! Or the fact that a lot of people say the wifi bug has gone!).
 
b0fh666 said:
well, given how buggy yosemite still
is i'd say it's lacking budget on the networking department :)
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Either that, or maybe complex software is really difficult. Seriously, if you think the guys that do the networking stack are working on emoji, you're not getting it. They could easily have a couple of people working on this while they work on your personal pet bug.

For the record, my sister's MBA that I gave her is working just as well with Yosemite as it did with Mavericks. Apparently we're not all running into all of those bugs.
 
Michael Goff said:
Either that, or maybe complex software is really difficult. Seriously, if you think the guys that do the networking stack are working on emoji, you're not getting it. They could easily have a couple of people working on this while they work on your personal pet bug.



For the record, my sister's MBA that I gave her is working just as well with Yosemite as it did with Mavericks. Apparently we're not all running into all of those bugs.
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exactly. Someone else that has common sense!

Additionally, there was one out of 30 Macs/MacBooks I look after, one had the wifi bug. The rest did not. The one that had it, now running 10.10.3 and all good.
 
so running a beta OS is a fix for the wifi problem, then?

ok.

btw, i am running yosemite on my macbooks, did not have enough problems to make me revert back (but I surely regret upgrading...).

at least some things got better like vmware 7 not forcing the nvidia gpu to fire up anymore like it did on 7/mavericks

hopefully they will fix them when they are done with the emo thing.
 
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