Apple introduces emoji diversity options with latest iOS 8.3, OS X 10.10.3 betas

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  • Reply 41 of 81
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    Originally Posted by Flaneur View Post



    He was banned I think, though I don't know what finally did it. It looks like the ban is now lifted, but maybe he is too ashamed to come back (ha-ha). Anyway, he was never anti Tim Cook.

    He would occasionally go over the top on politics and social issues, but I must say that along with Slurpy, he was a master at calling out and putting in place googloids.

     

    I thoroughly enjoyed those posts, and they sort of made up for his other nonsense. Let's hope he's back soon, minus the politics.

     

    Oh, he certainly was not anti Tim Cook; that's why I said 'et. al'.

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  • Reply 42 of 81
    Oh, he certainly was not anti Tim Cook; that's why I said 'et. al'

    I'm still not sure how "and others" excludes anything in your original comment. The subject and predicate still have to be paired.

    et al. |?et ?al, ?et ?äl|
    abbreviation
    - and others (used especially in referring to academic books or articles that have more than one author).

    ORIGIN from Latin et alii.
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  • Reply 43 of 81
    mstonemstone Posts: 11,510member
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    He would occasionally go over the top on politics and social issues, but I must say that along with Slurpy, he was a master at calling out and putting in place googloids.


    The Android apologists are cowering in the corner at this point. I think they have mostly conceded defeat or are in denial in some closet. Anyone with any class uses iPhone as their everyday driver.

     

    There are a few misguided Android users still out there. In my department, of fifteen people, we have one left where two years ago there were maybe ten. He is a legacy hold out but his wife uses iPhone.

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  • Reply 44 of 81
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    Originally Posted by anantksundaram View Post



    Oh, he certainly was not anti Tim Cook; that's why I said 'et. al'




    I'm still not sure how "and others" excludes anything in your original comment. The subject and predicate still have to be paired.

     
    et al. |?et ?al, ?et ?äl|

    abbreviation

    - and others (used especially in referring to academic books or articles that have more than one author).



    ORIGIN from Latin et alii.


    I truly wish you'd cut back on your proclivity for being a pedant at times. (Except, of course, when it suits you otherwise, as in the post in another thread -- I am sure you'll see it -- where you conveniently conflate '2015' with 'ever').

     

    Go with the flow, man....

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  • Reply 45 of 81
    mstone wrote: »
    Anyone with any class uses iPhone as their everyday driver.

    It's like [@]Apple ][[/@] is here. :\
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  • Reply 46 of 81
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    The Android apologists are cowering in the corner at this point. I think they have mostly conceded defeat or are in denial in some closet. Anyone with any class uses iPhone as their everyday driver.


    Agreed.

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  • Reply 47 of 81
    mstonemstone Posts: 11,510member
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    I guess our votes cancel each other out.


    Not at all. Both votes amount to nothing because neither has any effect. Mine in a local context and yours in a national context unless you have local libertarians running for elected positions your vote is ineffective.

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  • Reply 48 of 81
    I truly wish you'd cut back on your proclivity for being a pedant at times. (Except, of course, when it suits you otherwise, as in the post in another thread -- I am sure you'll see it -- where you conveniently conflate '2015' with 'ever').

    Go with the flow, man....

    Being accurate suits us all best. If I am inaccurate I would prefer you note that, so I can evaluate the error… then I'll have my builder make changes to my codebase to help ensure that doesn't happen in the future.
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  • Reply 49 of 81
    anomeanome Posts: 1,545member
    ???? is the only family that is blessed by God.
    It's showing up kind of small, but I can only see one wife, and no concubines. Plus it seems there aren't enough children either, but I suppose you'd only show the first born son, since the daughters are of no consequence.
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  • Reply 50 of 81
    mstonemstone Posts: 11,510member
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    Originally Posted by SolipsismY View Post

     
     

    It's like @Apple ][ is here. image

    He and I agree on very few things

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  • Reply 51 of 81
    anome wrote: »
    ???? is the only family that is blessed by God.
    It's showing up kind of small, but I can only see one wife, and no concubines. Plus it seems there aren't enough children either, but I suppose you'd only show the first born son, since the daughters are of no consequence.

    ????
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  • Reply 52 of 81
    bigpicsbigpics Posts: 1,397member
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    It looks like they've got icons for a whole range of family setups: two men, two women, woman and man plus one or two kids with variants of girls and boys. There's not enough yet though, they need all the race variations in the family too with all the children potentially adopted.





     

    Ahh, what a conundrum being "inclusive" quickly becomes... ...you're bound to leave oxes gored...  ...mixed ethnicity couples... ...multi-racial kids...  ...and is five shades really "a wide range" of skin tones...??

     

    (Not including the default yellow, which when applied to faces more human than a smiley is a sallow yellow that would have embarrassed even Sax Rohmer as a stereotype of Asian people.)



    And you can go on and endlessly on...  ...e.g., what about...



    ...long-haired men... ...short-haired women... ...bald men and women...  ...large and proud... ...long beards, short beards, mustaches, side burns, mohawks, frohawks, mullets...



    ...and btw, speaking as an old fart what about old humans?  As in grey hair, etc...  ...and then all the variations on older couples and their ethnicities... 

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    Maybe they also need plural marriage combinations and different religions. What about the pets? fish/birds/cats/dogs/...


     

    ...up to how many spouses, haha.... 

     

    ...bi-sexual...  ...threesomes...  ...polyamorous...  ...asexual... ...transgendered...

     

    ...extreme piercers... ...tatted up... ..et al.  (with apologies for that last abbreviation to anantksundaram)

     

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    I think it is pretty obvious that them using the iMac for their PC representation is the death knell of the Mac Pro.


     

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    Would Apple include ?Watch in there if they really thought it was going to be a failed product they want people to forget about?

     

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    The irony here is Apple's statement on "diversity" as a whole, as in: 

     

    Multi-ethnic, multi-sexual orientation, si..!  but multi-OS, multi-manufacturer, non..!  Lolz....



     

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  • Reply 53 of 81
    mstonemstone Posts: 11,510member
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    Multi-ethnic, multi-sexual orientation, si..!  but multi-OS, multi-manufacturer, non..!  Lolz....



     


    That falls under the NYC Italian mafia ethnicity emoji. For get a bout it!

     

    http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2013/jul/02/how-speak-italian-with-hand-gestures

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  • Reply 54 of 81
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    Being accurate suits us all best. 

    There's 'accuracy', and there's accuracy in context.

     

    All I meant by 'et. al' was, "Apple][ and others who post with views on politics/society similar to his." If that helps you recalibrate, great. If not, I don't know what to say. It was meant to be tongue-in-cheek. In partial jest. Anticipatory statement on how the thread was likely to get hijacked. (And, ironically, it now has been, but for a different reason).

     

    I am happy to let it go.

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  • Reply 55 of 81
    I don't really care about the emoji pictures as a statement of personal beliefs... But I am super happy that Siri now recognises Nu Zild accents, at least in the beta.
    Woo hoo!!!
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  • Reply 56 of 81
    john.bjohn.b Posts: 2,742member

    All the bugs in 8.1.3 and 10.10.2 and we get new emojis.

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  • Reply 57 of 81
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    Originally Posted by Anome View Post





    It's showing up kind of small, but I can only see one wife, and no concubines. Plus it seems there aren't enough children either, but I suppose you'd only show the first born son, since the daughters are of no consequence.



    The burka, you forgot the burka ... ...

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  • Reply 58 of 81
    palegolaspalegolas Posts: 1,362member

    I hate Dora the explorer.. I can understand the use of shading in emojis, to make them stand out in any size, background etc. I still don't like it.. And I still wish, while they're at it, that Apple overhauled all of the Emoji's. I think they're really bad. And now with the new Dora design.. uh... Jony, did you approve this?

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  • Reply 59 of 81
    anome wrote: »
    ???? is the only family that is blessed by God.
    It's showing up kind of small, but I can only see one wife, and no concubines. Plus it seems there aren't enough children either, but I suppose you'd only show the first born son, since the daughters are of no consequence.

    You interpret wisely.
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  • Reply 60 of 81
    john.b wrote: »
    All the bugs in 8.1.3 and 10.10.2 and we get new emojis.

    Post of the week.

    Cook fiddles while Rome burns.
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