Mystery 'eye in speech bubble' emoji in iOS 9.1 linked to anti-bullying campaign, fast-tracked by Ap

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  • Reply 41 of 53
    bluefire1bluefire1 Posts: 1,318member

    I wish Apple would just let us enjoy our iPhones, iPads and Macs without feeling the need to embed any social issue they consider relevant.

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  • Reply 42 of 53
    nolamacguynolamacguy Posts: 4,758member
    Honestly, who needs emojis?
    Maybe that's not the point, ok. But why is a taco or this reported as though it's a huge new tent pile feature? I don't get that.

    can you link us to where these are touted as tent pole features? I haven't seen that, and I kinda don't you have either.
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  • Reply 43 of 53
    nolamacguynolamacguy Posts: 4,758member
    apple ][ wrote: »
    I am against this emoji and I feel that Apple should provide a setting to disable it completely, just like somebody has the option to either enable or disable countless other features and services.

    I don't feel that politics and political correctness has any place sneaking itself in and being embedded into an OS, and such features should be kept out.

    1) you can already disable his keyboard, duh.

    2) there are no politics here. it's not a hidden gay agenda, either.
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  • Reply 44 of 53
    nolamacguynolamacguy Posts: 4,758member
    chadbag wrote: »

    Internet bullying may be a big deal.  But feel good responses like this don't actually do anything about it.  How does this symbol, seemingly now upgraded to emoji, going go stop or reduce or have any effect on internet bullying?

    how do NFL players wearing pink stop cancerous growths? it doesn't. but it does raise awareness socially which enables more people to take action in the real world.
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  • Reply 45 of 53
    nolamacguynolamacguy Posts: 4,758member
    wiggin wrote: »
    Here you go: https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1845?locale=en_US

    "<span style="line-height:1.4em;">Adds over 150 new emoji characters with full Unicode 7.0 and 8.0 support"</span>


    <span style="line-height:1.4em;">Pretty much every Apple OS/iOS update includes listed among the new features how many new emojis the update adds. So, yeah, Apple considers them tent-poles.</span>

    do you really not understand what the word tent pole means? merely citing a feature doesn't make it a tent pole, duh.
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  • Reply 46 of 53
    nolamacguynolamacguy Posts: 4,758member
    bluefire1 wrote: »
    I wish Apple would just let us enjoy our iPhones, iPads and Macs without feeling the need to embed any social issue they consider relevant.

    how are you being forced to use this icon, or the taco icon for that matter?

    people loooove to play the victim role, don't they...now you're being victimized by Apple!
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  • Reply 47 of 53
    knowitallknowitall Posts: 1,648member
    The evil eye, also a stolen hieroglyph from the Egypts.
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  • Reply 48 of 53
    nolamacguy wrote: »
    can you link us to where these are touted as tent pole features? I haven't seen that, and I kinda don't you have either.

    About every article about 9.2 touts this as though it were something huge. It's also in the official release notes. So if that is specifically mentioned while others are not it means it is chooses as more interesting. Compare split screen, SIRI improvements or maps enhancements to a new pictogram.

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  • Reply 49 of 53



    I was hoping that it would be part of a "Denounce and Report" campaign: "If you see people you suspect of being illegal immigrants, denounce and report them by texting this emoji to your local citizen's council."

     

    How's *that* for irony?

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  • Reply 50 of 53
    chadbagchadbag Posts: 2,032member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by NolaMacGuy View Post





    how do NFL players wearing pink stop cancerous growths? it doesn't. but it does raise awareness socially which enables more people to take action in the real world.



    Well, the pink ribbon / pink stuff on NFL players is a LOT more well known than the eye message symbol for bullying so you can't really compare it.

     

    ETA:  If no one knows what the symbol means, it does not raise social awareness of it, for whatever good that does.

     

    And I also don't think, though I don't have any data, that the social awareness of breast cancer is meaningfully raised by NFL players or pink Glocks or anything.  Raised enough so that someone who wouldn't already do something, who was not already engaged, would actually do something like make a donation.   In any noticeable ways.  A few maybe but I think it is more a feel good so we can THINK we have done something.

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  • Reply 51 of 53
    shaminoshamino Posts: 563member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by dysamoria View Post

    Aren't you usually one of the guys to be aggressively defending a company's "right to do whatever they want", or do you feel personally targeted by this campaign?

     

    Nobody is saying Apple shouldn't be allowed to add this glyph.  Those who are objecting are saying that they think it's a bad (or dumb) idea.

     

    Is it now considered censorship to simply say that you think someone else is wrong?  Or does that only apply when it's a cause that you care about, and it's all fine and dandy when it's somebody else's cause?

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  • Reply 52 of 53
    bluefire1bluefire1 Posts: 1,318member
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by NolaMacGuy View Post





    how are you being forced to use this icon, or the taco icon for that matter?



    people loooove to play the victim role, don't they...now you're being victimized by Apple!

    Nowhere did I say I was forced to use this icon, any more then I was forced to use the sh*tload of crap that carriers used to include on cell phones pre June 29th, 2007.  And your assumption about being "victimized" is false. If you're going to interpret other people's comments, better luck next time.

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  • Reply 53 of 53
    haarhaar Posts: 563member
    I thought it was a NSA emoji...
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