That guy Apple has running back and forth between the wifi and emoji departments must be exhausted!
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OS X 10.10.3 Puts More Focus on Emoji, Lays Groundwork for Skin Tone Modifiers
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That guy Apple has running back and forth between the wifi and emoji departments must be exhausted!
Emoji are yellow. I'm not yellow, I'm white. I'm not offended because they're not a representation of real people, but cartoons.
I guess I'll now have to be more racist - I guess Wile E. Coyote is of black decent, and Porky Pig of white decent, I'm confused about Mickey Mouse because he's both black and white.
WTF is wrong with Apple??
Emojis?? you've got to be kidding!!
Seems like System X is the New Windoze, with lots of feature bloat.
If Apple wants to go for system bloat, they need to enable the user to delete all the bloat from the system.
How about designing a Blue Screen of Death feature ... every time I get fed-up with useless features, I can just hit the Blue Screen of Death button. Meh
Emojis?? you've got to be kidding!!
Seems like System X is the New Windoze, with lots of feature bloat.
If Apple wants to go for system bloat, they need to enable the user to delete all the bloat from the system.
How about designing a Blue Screen of Death feature ... every time I get fed-up with useless features, I can just hit the Blue Screen of Death button. Meh
I don't think its affecting it to be honest. I doubt the team that handles certain aspects of the OS like wifi issues are being pulled off of their projects to work on implementing emojis.
Wow, I am pretty shocked, too.
I think the transition from a maker of professional tools to a maker of childish toys is now finally complete.
Well, one thing is still missing, and that's a sorely needed renaming of the company, in order to better reflect the new target audience:
Welcome to Appletubbies!
I think the transition from a maker of professional tools to a maker of childish toys is now finally complete.
Well, one thing is still missing, and that's a sorely needed renaming of the company, in order to better reflect the new target audience:
Welcome to Appletubbies!
OMFG. Apple has such a huge list of [stuff] to fix with OS X, it's mind boggling that they are spending a single resource, human or otherwise, on emoji.
It just shows you what the priorities are at Apple unfortunately.
You (and many other posts) are confusing Apple with MacRumors.
You can say that again!
Oops, I mean...
[calls up emoji menu]
[tabs through a number of multi-page scroll-able grids]
[tabs back through because he couldn't quite find one that fit]
[locates one he likes]
[clicks on a drop down to make sure his smiley is race-appropriate I guess?]
You're right!
Apple should stop every other facet of development until that thing you want fixed gets fixed!
I'd like to believe that. But Apple has a history of corporate monotasking: putting important initiatives/projects on pause as they pull people from that team to work on another big project. Not saying that's necessarily the case here, but their history of delaying OS X releases because those guys are working on iOS makes me wonder why the most profitable company in the history of corporations can't fill out their roster a little better. Like maybe if they staffed up 10-15% they'd have the manpower to chase down the exponentially burgeoning list of bugs/design flaws on all their platforms.
This was addressed by the two dozen other people who made the same joke before you.
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It's a credit to Apple that you're even able to use a computer.
Glad to see Apple putting time and effort into the truly important features of an operating system.
Seriously folks, if you were on the fence about switching to a different OS because of Apple's long string of debacles over the past few years, this should be your "table flip, exit stage left" moment.
Why?
If there are some low hanging fruit that apple can clean up while working on multiple issues why shouldn't they?
I am pretty sure that they don't work on one issue at a time.
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I am not sure what you are trying to say here.
I realize they don't work on one issue at a time. However, what I, and some others are saying is that when they have such glaring, massive ONGOING issues like they have had for years now, spending ANY time on something this stupid is worthy of some rage from the userbase.
Let me bookmark this thread for the next time someone says Apple users are more mature/serious than android/windows/blackberry users.
Yes, let's fire people from the UI until we fix the drivers @ cie issues.
We'll hire them when it'll be done !
Yes, let's fire people from the UI until we fix the drivers @ cie issues.
We'll hire them when it'll be done !
Do people seriously think that the team working on these emojis are the same as the team who would be working on bug fixes for opendir or Final Cut X etc? Apple are able to work on multiple things at once, and working on A doesn't mean there is any resources lacking from B.
I'm glad they are spending company resources on this instead of thinking up novel ways to further cripple their "Pro" lines
It's amazing that any of you even care that people actually want to see themselves represented, especially since most of you admit to not using emoji. Plenty of people -- all probably cooler and more fun than you -- want to use emoji, and it's pretty silly that for years now there's been a representation of white people of all ages and almost no people of color. It may not seem important to you, but hey, it never does seem important to the people that are represented by default. I would at least hope you wouldn't outright COMPLAIN when diversity was added.
Man, white people. You really can't handle anything, can you?
Edit: And before you claim you just want to see Apple spend their resources appropriately, first of all, this IS actually a mainstream perception problem, as it's been joked about on countless television shows including SNL. Second of all, Apple is one of the richest companies in the world and they have unlimited resources. Someone working on emoji doesn't mean resources have been STOLEN from your precious OS X team. It just means Apple needs to do both. Criticize them for the problems you want fixed, but don't criticize them for fixing the other problems that don't happen to be on your list.
Man, white people. You really can't handle anything, can you?
Edit: And before you claim you just want to see Apple spend their resources appropriately, first of all, this IS actually a mainstream perception problem, as it's been joked about on countless television shows including SNL. Second of all, Apple is one of the richest companies in the world and they have unlimited resources. Someone working on emoji doesn't mean resources have been STOLEN from your precious OS X team. It just means Apple needs to do both. Criticize them for the problems you want fixed, but don't criticize them for fixing the other problems that don't happen to be on your list.
What I really want to know, and I think it is a huge problem is: where are the hair color modifiers? Not everyone has dark hair. Likewise, where are the eye color modifiers? It is racist to only have dark eyes.
I didn't quite realise that Christians, heterosexuals, communists, vegans etc. look different from other people.
But why can't Apple fix the crap they already messed up Yosemite with?
How about more essential "improvements", such as:
(1) Changing, or make it much easier for the user to change, the utterly hideous overly saturated and too-greenish folder icon color?
(2) Highlighting the active tab in Safari so you can see at a glance which one is actually active?
(3) Restoring the ability in Safari merely to clear the history (of websites visited) -- WITHOUT the present "simplification" that ties that to removing cookies as well? Those should be entirely separate user choices!
(4) Restoring clear screen rendering of fonts in pdfs, which are now fuzzy for pdfs created with (La)TeX?
How about more essential "improvements", such as:
(1) Changing, or make it much easier for the user to change, the utterly hideous overly saturated and too-greenish folder icon color?
(2) Highlighting the active tab in Safari so you can see at a glance which one is actually active?
(3) Restoring the ability in Safari merely to clear the history (of websites visited) -- WITHOUT the present "simplification" that ties that to removing cookies as well? Those should be entirely separate user choices!
(4) Restoring clear screen rendering of fonts in pdfs, which are now fuzzy for pdfs created with (La)TeX?