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iMessage + Apps

by brbcoding on 6/13/16, 7:52 PM with 21 comments

• by wlesieutre on 6/13/16, 8:44 PM

  I admit it, I don't get the draw of these things. I can vandalize people's messages with stickers now? And from the keynote, "Nothing beats a fullscreen moment!"? Ookay.

  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.

• by cthulhujr on 6/13/16, 9:36 PM

  Google wave was just too far ahead of its time. The world wasn't ready yet. And now look where we are. A clean UI and a little magic makes things so much different.

• by Steko on 6/13/16, 9:09 PM

  Instead of selecting text I'd rather have a dedicated softkey to emojify what I type after. E.g. ⁂poop spits out pile of poo emoji. Tap and hold the button and the emoji menus show up.

• by calebclark on 6/13/16, 9:04 PM

  It seems that there is no ability to create iMessage bots.

• by snaky on 6/14/16, 1:05 AM

  in-messenger apps and payment system - Apple wants to be WeChat