Follow the users: Why Messages got the biggest upgrade in iOS 10<article>
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The app that got the most attention during the iOS segment of Monday’s Apple WWDC keynote was Messages, the unassuming text-messaging tool. A lot of people might have been baffled by the strange emphasis on adding animations, sketches, stickets, big emoji, and even third-party app access to an app as inconsequential as Messages.</p><p>
That sort of thinking is unsurprising: I’d bet that a huge percentage of people in the computer-nerd sphere–including a whole lot of people who work at Apple–don’t think of Messages as anything but boring. Why jazz up something that’s fundamentally so utilitarian?</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">
@sfsooz @macworld to have burned any cycles at a dev conf on emojis and watch faces. SMH</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3084781/ios/follow-the-users-why-messages-got-the-biggest-upgrade-in-ios-10.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Follow the users: Why Messages got the biggest upgrade in iOS 10