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I dislike how much focus Apple and other companies put on Memoji's, Emoji's, Bitmoji's, Animoji's and all other shitty, cartoon representations of their users.
by tomglynch 7y ago
I dislike how much focus Apple and other companies put on Memoji's, Emoji's, Bitmoji's, Animoji's and all other shitty, cartoon representations of their users.
- etchalon 7y agoYou might dislike it, but one has to assume these companies have data showing users love them.
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- Angostura 7y agoI suspect you and I are not the target demographics. My daughter was extremely chuffed that she will be able to design animojis now on her old iPhone SE.
- vardhanagwal 7y agoPerhaps that's the case...
- mceachen 7y agoPSA: for those that haven't soaked in sufficient britspeak, "chuffed" means delighted.
- vardhanagwal 7y agoThat makes sense, @tomglynch, but I covered it, since it was in the keynote :)
- vardhanagwal 7y agoAdmittedly, I use them pretty frequently myself...
- yoz-y 7y agoEmojis are one of the few reasons why people update their OS. It is a great win for security.
- azhenley 7y agoI've never thought of this, but wow it seems so true. Whenever a new batch of emojis come out, my friends start sending them which entices me to go update immediately.
- stcredzero 7y agoPerhaps they're onto something here. Clickbait in the service of security? The black hats are already using the darker side of mass Internet behavior. "Secure your computer with this one weird trick!"
- lowdose 7y agoDo you have an example of this in the wild?
- oarsinsync 7y agoThis is the only way I'm able to convince my family to upgrade sooner rather than later. Nothing quite like square-box-triggered FOMO to force an upgrade.
- vardhanagwal 7y agoGood thinking!
- TimTheTinker 7y agoExcellent insight. One wonders - how long can updated emojis continue to motivate people to upgrade? Diminishing returns will have to kick in at some point. But there is still more room for innovation in the Messages app.
- jpochtar 7y agoWhy not just auto-update the OS?????????? Non-auto-updating software is the problem
- dewey 7y agoI actually use them a lot via FaceTime and it's definitely motivates me to update faster, so I'm all for it.
- mikeash 7y agoJust let people enjoy what they enjoy.
- imglorp 7y agoIt makes me sad that 47 year old tech (emoticons, 1972) is the fore-running value add of a $900b company.
- saagarjha 7y agoThousands of year old technology (wheels) back billion dollar transportation companies.