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.
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.
If it's an improvement it's an improvement and it might as well be as good as it can, but "we caught up to facebook messenger" doesn't feel that exciting to me.
I was really hoping for the iMessage on Android rumors to pan out, but now that they've gone and created an iMessage extensions system it seems a lot less possible moving forward.
No, seriously, someone please do this :-)
I wonder if it displays which app an image came from. Could I make my own fake dice extension that rolls whatever I tell it to?
Less the subtitle, my spirit animal: http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/383/574/c45...
But then again - 72% are first-time attendees. In other words, developers aren't coming back, but a ton of newbies want the experience?
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.)
