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Mobile OS's aren't just for grumpy old people.
by cakedoggie 9y ago
Mobile OS's aren't just for grumpy old people.
- saghm 9y agoI'm younger than emojis themselves, to be perfectly honest, but I hardly think that an (incorrect) ad hominem makes my point any less valid.
- supercoder 9y agoEmojis have no relevance to how technical someone is
- saghm 9y agoExactly, they have appeal to people independent of technical skill; hence my hypothesis that they make sure to emphasize the things that are more likely to resonate with larger groups of people (like emoji) rather than things like Project Treble or a "native C/C++ API for high-performance audio", even if the former really have little to due with the OS itself. If we're going down that route, it's also worth noting that "old people" such as GP referred to also can like emoji; my parents and grandparents enjoy using emoji.
- scott_karana 9y agoGP's point wasn't that emojis shouldn't be updated, but that it shouldn't require MAJOR/BREAKING VERSION updates (kernel, libraries, the works) to simply update a sprite font.
- cakedoggie 9y agoWho is saying it does? They are just releasing them at the same time.
- qubex 9y agoI don't think they're retroactively releasing them for versions of Android prior to Oreo, though, are they?