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Six Months After Launch, Developer Excitement Over iMessage Apps is 'Fading'
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So much this. I was shocked coming from iOS 9. As far as I'm concerned they should've stopped at bigger emoji's and the handwritten note feature in landscape mode.
Call me hater or whatever, but iOS 10 is a design and functionality disaster for the sake of just being "modern": 4 ways to view widgets, horrible and big notification bubbles with a forced 3D Touch use, iMessage, inconsistent use of blur or edge-to-edge imagery—big shift from the language iOS 7 was trying to impose, Control Centre, inconsistent app design... Ugh.
Seriously, iMessage has apps? I use the animated pics all the time, did not know about the apps.
Umm I'm in the UK and 99% of the people I know use iMessage, the occasional Android person I just text.
I've used WhatsApp like twice for sending a pic to an Android user.
Your not old. This is something that wasn't adopted early on and is still is a fad, similar to how emoticons are expressed. It's some form of a newer way of expression/communicating, like hieroglyphics for example. It's not for me either.
I'm fine with it. It can be fun once in a while. But, it's not something I'll trade for good UX/UI design, or say some new capable computers.
This is the appeal of the iMessage App Store! The hidden unknowns! View attachment 692496Everyone should try it!!!
Heh, no doubt. Hours of entertainment for the real-life challenged.
Just six months in and probably half of the message apps aren't even supported by their developers anymore. Hey, it is just like the real App Store!
Stickers are considered their own category. According to Appshopper, there's 10,000 of those and more than half of them are paid.
Given that the iPhones lean towards more affluent / professionals (as a statistical trend) it seems to me that focusing development efforts on stickers and games in a communications platform is ... a waste of effort. Everyone I know uses iMessages to COMMUNICATE. Yes, some emoticons can help, but even with the built-in unicode set we're already at a high saturation point for real-world use.
My use-case only. YMMV.
My use-case only. YMMV.
What can you even do with iMessage apps? I mean Gamepigeon and fandango are awesome for it, but I can't really see what they can do beyond turn-based games and quick information.
No one cares, Why? Because next year Apple will forget all about iMessages and move on the something else that will be half baked, but exceedingly ready for Apple's marketing hype machine. Apple today is all about the splash, and forgets the reality; that making great apps takes some care and feeding. I, for one, am getting tired of the splash and then total abandonment.
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You're forgetting that if a contact doesn't have iOS/iMessage, it just falls back to sending a good old SMS, which pretty much everyone can deal with. So no, you're not "forcing" anyone to use any particular kind of phone. I personally need yet another messaging app like "Whatsapp" like I need a hole in the head.
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You're forgetting that if a contact doesn't have iOS/iMessage, it just falls back to sending a good old SMS, which pretty much everyone can deal with. So no, you're not "forcing" anyone to use any particular kind of phone. I personally need yet another messaging app like "Whatsapp" like I need a hole in the head.
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Ok, well, around 0% are humans I interact with, so I'm doing pretty well without it, thanks.
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people use the landscape writing? I'd opt out if I could so annoying when it flips to the side.