iMessage + Apps
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iMessage + Apps
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#2I admit it, I don't get the draw of these things. I can vandalize people's messages with stickers now? And from the keynote, "Nothing beats a fullscreen moment!"? Ookay.
The amount of applause for "We made emoji bigger!" was ... surprising to me. I got on board the Snapchat train, but I just can't get excited about being able to tap words to turn them into emoji.
In the words of Principal Skinner: Am I out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong.
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#3I admit it, I don't get the draw of these things. I can vandalize people's messages with stickers now? And from the keynote, "Nothing beats a fullscreen moment!"? Ookay. The amount of applause for "We made emoji bigger!" was ... surprising to me. I got on board the Snapchat train, but I just can't get excited about being able to tap words to turn them into emoji. In the words of Principal Skinner: Am I out of touch?…
>I admit it, I don't get the draw of these things.
On the other hand these aren't features Apple is pioneering. Stickers, larger emojis and other text effects have been in WeChat/Line/FB Messenger/Snapchat for a while now.
Now that iMessage has them, Apple just decided to give those features the classic Apple marketing fanfare.
So in short, "the children" have been using these features for a while now, Apple just decided to let you know they exist.
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#4I admit it, I don't get the draw of these things. I can vandalize people's messages with stickers now? And from the keynote, "Nothing beats a fullscreen moment!"? Ookay. The amount of applause for "We made emoji bigger!" was ... surprising to me. I got on board the Snapchat train, but I just can't get excited about being able to tap words to turn them into emoji. In the words of Principal Skinner: Am I out of touch?…
I clapped for at bigger-emoji line. But I'm over 40 and have to squint to read the pictograms my wife and kids send me.
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#5I admit it, I don't get the draw of these things. I can vandalize people's messages with stickers now? And from the keynote, "Nothing beats a fullscreen moment!"? Ookay. The amount of applause for "We made emoji bigger!" was ... surprising to me. I got on board the Snapchat train, but I just can't get excited about being able to tap words to turn them into emoji. In the words of Principal Skinner: Am I out of touch?…
Well the fun stuff is just gives more way to express yourself. We might not use it but all these other chatting apps have had this for a while now. Apps, though, like any other thing that opens itself up to apps, have a lot more practicality. For example, the food ordering demo. I'm sure there are other things that would be useful to do without leaving the message thread (think Slack integrations).
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#6I admit it, I don't get the draw of these things. I can vandalize people's messages with stickers now? And from the keynote, "Nothing beats a fullscreen moment!"? Ookay. The amount of applause for "We made emoji bigger!" was ... surprising to me. I got on board the Snapchat train, but I just can't get excited about being able to tap words to turn them into emoji. In the words of Principal Skinner: Am I out of touch?…
It's for teenagers. The sad thing is the number of developers, sitting through this, including me, wondering what happened.
But then again - 72% are first-time attendees. In other words, developers aren't coming back, but a ton of newbies want the experience?
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#7I admit it, I don't get the draw of these things. I can vandalize people's messages with stickers now? And from the keynote, "Nothing beats a fullscreen moment!"? Ookay. The amount of applause for "We made emoji bigger!" was ... surprising to me. I got on board the Snapchat train, but I just can't get excited about being able to tap words to turn them into emoji. In the words of Principal Skinner: Am I out of touch?…
Also an app for rolling dice in iMessages, I can't wait until someone does that.
No, seriously, someone please do this :-)
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#8It seems that there is no ability to create iMessage bots.
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#9I admit it, I don't get the draw of these things. I can vandalize people's messages with stickers now? And from the keynote, "Nothing beats a fullscreen moment!"? Ookay. The amount of applause for "We made emoji bigger!" was ... surprising to me. I got on board the Snapchat train, but I just can't get excited about being able to tap words to turn them into emoji. In the words of Principal Skinner: Am I out of touch?…
I clapped for at bigger-emoji line. But I'm over 40 and have to squint to read the pictograms my wife and kids send me.
I'm young, and I don't have to squint for the emoji I recognise, but some of them are more intricately detailed, and so it's difficult to figure them out without squinting. This is a welcome improvement.
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#10I admit it, I don't get the draw of these things. I can vandalize people's messages with stickers now? And from the keynote, "Nothing beats a fullscreen moment!"? Ookay. The amount of applause for "We made emoji bigger!" was ... surprising to me. I got on board the Snapchat train, but I just can't get excited about being able to tap words to turn them into emoji. In the words of Principal Skinner: Am I out of touch?…
It's a mindset thing more than it's an age thing.
My mom uses more emojis than my 14 year old niece.
And my mid-40s sister-in-law sends more Bitstrips than she does regular texts. (I doubt my niece would be caught dead sending a Bitstrip.)