Who Can Find All This Necessary And If So Why?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/24/apple-adds-racially-diverse-emoji-and-they-come-in-five-skin-shades

:0(

[Gromit]

This isn't even out yet.
It is in the beta version of OSX 10.11 which will not ship for 8 months.

[anotheoldgit]

-Talbot-

/// I can understand you worrying about the level of immigration but threads about multi coloured emoji's (new word for me) and foreign dogs entering Crufts is all a bit much, AOG. ///

Obviously you cannot see too deeply into some of my threads, but if you find then too hard to understand, then please feel free to ignore them, or would that spoil your fun?

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// This isn't even out yet.
It is in the beta version of OSX 10.11 which will not ship for 8 months. ///

i cannot quite see what difference that makes.

[-Talbot-]

Seriously?
You think your thinking is too deep for me?


Now where is the white faced laughing emoji tab on my keyboard?

[retrocop]

Strange that. I thought that homosexuality did not appeal to the Chinese. Still no harm in giving it a try.

///They are particularly concerntrating on the Chinese market at the moment. So the expanded emoji set is their attempt at being more inclusive, more a global and less parochial white American
Apple's CEO, Tim Cook is gay and they take diversity very seriously. ///

[Gromit]

AOG,

Apple have £145billion in the bank.
Their profit in the last quarter (3 months) was £11.5billion.

But I suppose you know best.

[Gromit]

// Apple has the financial influence of a not-even-that-small country at this point. The company's $178 billion—$178 billion!—puts it on par with the gross domestic product of a country like New Zealand, surpassing the GDPs of Vietnam, Morocco, and Ecuador, according to the most recent World Bank data.

If Apple were a country, it'd be the 55th richest country in the world. //

[retrocop]

I was aware of the vast profits that Apple make. It was recently shown in the press. It would not be quite so big a profit,it would seem, if it was paying tax on it which is being investigated in the EU.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

Your preferred party leader Natalie Bennett, also likes to quote figures she said in a LBC interview that the Green party would build Five hundred thousand homes for the cost of £2.7bn, to which the interviewer remarked, what will they be built of plywood?

[Gromit]

Retrocop.
It is paying tax - in Luxembourg. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and most of the other tech giants do the same. By having their EU headquarter in Luxembourg they can pay tax at Luxembourg's lower rate.

[Old_Geezer]

Just as long as they know they may get charged for MMS when they opt to use them ;-)

[Fitzer]

That was Samsung handsets I believe OG

[Gromit]

Gromit,
// Your preferred party leader Natalie Bennett //

I said I might vote for a Green Party candidate. But I will not be doing so.

My reason was not because I preferred them, more that they were the best of a bad bunch.

Not sure what this has to do with darkie emojis.

[retrocop]

Gromit


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/apple-tax-evasion/

[Gromit]

I had no idea there were so many right on Liberals and lefty luvvies about.

// Apple has to pamper to its client base which is predominently right-on liberals and lefty 'luvvies' //

Apple just sold it 1 billionth iDevice.

[RandyMarsh]

does everything have to be necessary?, is ice cream necessary?, what about music, is that necessary?

[sandyRoe]

What, no gingers? Is that deliberate discrimination against Irish and Scottish people?

[Svejk]

All the emoji's on my phone are yellow. I'm going to complain to my MP and have a 'sad-face' article in the Mail.

[sp1814]

AOG

You asked 'who can find all this necessary and why?'

The answer is 'people who are not currently represented by emojis', but I would replace 'necessary' with 'useful' or 'handy'.

Apple is a global company and is adding to its repertoire of emojis so that people from around the world now have a choice of icons that more accurately represent them or their circumstances (eg. the same sex couples / families).

This isn't reducing choice, it's increasing it - which seems like a good idea.

[Zacs-Master]

I'm loving the idea that there's some hidden depth to this thread.