Do You Use It? Widgets See Middling Adoption

[Shamino (David C.)]

Well, I’m not trying to “attack the issue”, and to attempt to do so in this forum is pointless because none of us actually know what “the issue” is and none of us know what Apple’s development resources actually are.

I was simply pointing out that the offhand comment of “let’s put emoji designers on bug fixing” is nuts, and explaining why adding more talent to a big project in a way that can actually increase productivity is often easier said than done.

@Simon

where’s the money? Well, you save it by letting go of some of those people you mention who can design emojis but cannot fix broken code.

Which is equally shortsighted. I guarantee you that most of Apple’s application developers are not graphic artists capable of designing high quality emojis.

And the emoji work must be done, because they need to keep pace with the Unicode standards. Apple doesn’t want people complaining about stupid things like “my brother sent me a text message and all I got were blank squares”.

[omalansky (Alan Sanders)]

@Simon

The one thing though I would suggest all agree on is a) Apple makes the ultimate call (and thus carries the responsibility of justifying that) and b) one personal preference is on a broader scale not any more or less valid than somebody else’s.

Perhaps Apple should feel a responsibility to justify decisions that affect many users, but they obviously don’t. They do whatever they feel like doing, whether it makes good sense or not.

I also do not agree that all personal preferences are equally valid. It’s like saying that all people are equally intelligent, equally educated, equally experienced, equally sensitive, etc.—which is most definitely not true despite the fact that it is considered politically correct to suggest otherwise.

[ace (Adam Engst)]

Let’s focus on widgets and not get into the weeds of what’s justified in terms of behavior.