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I don't get that Animoji thing at all. I was really surprised when watching the NFL playoffs how stupid and pointless I found the iPhone ads. To me it looked like they are so clearly trying to sell their phones to... I dunno... maybe college kids for whom a phone is a toy? Like those ads didn't sell the phone on any useful/practical features at all, while the Pixel ads did.

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with those ads, it just amazed me that NONE of them seemed to be aimed at adults or tried to sell the phone as being a productive computer.

I suppose Apple is just selling the brand?

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I agree, there should be no fun and childlike whimsy over the age of 22. Once you become a real adult you're only allowed to derive joy from technical manuals, high interest savings accounts, and point zero four percent productivity increases.

Pretty much any mid-tier phone these days are plenty productive and there's not much that differentiates them because businesses tasks really haven't changed.

I see Animoji as a fun thing you can do that also demonstrates all the face recognition hardware in there that's present for FaceID, which to me, is the real killer feature of the X (and, presumably, future iPhones). Really is so much more convenient; like the good old days of using a phone that has no passcode at all.

It's a bit goofy, and a bit cute. Maybe the novelty will wear off soon, maybe it'll stay as a way for some groups to communicate.

I'd suggest you check out YouTube for animoji videos before dismissing it completely (like "Animojis Takeover TV" and others). There's a lot of creativity being unleashed by it, IMO.

> I'm not saying there's anything wrong with those ads, it just amazed me that NONE of them seemed to be aimed at adults or tried to sell the phone as being a productive computer.

They have several different ads, selling different features, to different groups of people.

I'm not sure that being adult excludes me from having fun with the single most used device I own. I occasionally send Animoji to my family to say something whimsical.

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