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Emoji for the rest of us IN JAPAN????

mavis

mavis

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Unbelievable.

Apparently emoji only works when composing SMS and email using the carrier-provided email account. In other words, if you're stupid enough to use MobileMe (like me, the good Apple fanboy that I am) you're SOL - no emoji. Not only can I not compose messages with emoji, but I can't receive them. ON MY IPHONE. USING MOBILE FREAKING ME, APPLE'S EMAIL SERVICE.

How utterly WORTHLESS. As if anyone uses SoftBank's 30-day retention (no joke! 30 days until messages auto-delete) email which doesn't even support push, anyway. LAME. LAME!!!

It's almost as if Apple desperately WANTS to fail in this market. Because they're doing a remarkable job of it. All this talk about FINALLY giving Japanese users emoji (which is a BIG deal here) and it doesn't even work with MobileMe (or Gmail, or Yahoo, or any other private email servers) ... PATHETIC. :mad:
 
thomahawk said:
or you can just be like me, get a nice sharp phone and go for DoCoMo!!!! xD
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Nah. I like having Safari in my pocket. Plus access to my MobileMe mail (and personal domain mail accounts) ... Oh and the App Store. And of course my iPod. ;)
 
Relax indeed :) It sucks, but is very explainable.

Softbank needs to convert emoji so they look the same no matter what operator you send mail to or receive it from. So they need full control over servers. Remember - emoji are some very special characters, not just "; )" converted to graphical symbol. Apple is smart for not getting into this business.. everybody knows that Japanese 3-carrier compatibility is a mess.

Actually, I'm happy with emoji in SMS - and email (or MMS, or whatever) doesn't really need any emojis inside the messages, no matter MobileMe or Crapbank's brain-dead email service ;)

It's great we finally got emojis!!

mavis said:
Unbelievable.

Apparently emoji only works when composing SMS and email using the carrier-provided email account. In other words, if you're stupid enough to use MobileMe (like me, the good Apple fanboy that I am) you're SOL - no emoji. Not only can I not compose messages with emoji, but I can't receive them. ON MY IPHONE. USING MOBILE FREAKING ME, APPLE'S EMAIL SERVICE.

How utterly WORTHLESS. As if anyone uses SoftBank's 30-day retention (no joke! 30 days until messages auto-delete) email which doesn't even support push, anyway. LAME. LAME!!!

It's almost as if Apple desperately WANTS to fail in this market. Because they're doing a remarkable job of it. All this talk about FINALLY giving Japanese users emoji (which is a BIG deal here) and it doesn't even work with MobileMe (or Gmail, or Yahoo, or any other private email servers) ... PATHETIC. :mad:
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macdigger said:
everybody knows that Japanese 3-carrier compatibility is a mess.
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That's true - I guess Apple can't really be blamed for the ineptitude of Japanese engineers ... ;)

Whatever. I was looking forward to finally being able to see what my DoCoMo and AU friends were emailing me (they always use emoji, assuming that I can see them) but since I use MobileMe, I guess I'm screwed. Oh well.
 
You should get everybody to Softbank ;) Problem solved! And you'll get a heap of 5,000yen tadatomo gift checks :D

mavis said:
That's true - I guess Apple can't really be blamed for the ineptitude of Japanese engineers ... ;)

Whatever. I was looking forward to finally being able to see what my DoCoMo and AU friends were emailing me (they always use emoji, assuming that I can see them) but since I use MobileMe, I guess I'm screwed. Oh well.
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macdigger said:
Relax indeed :) It sucks, but is very explainable.

Softbank needs to convert emoji so they look the same no matter what operator you send mail to or receive it from. So they need full control over servers. Remember - emoji are some very special characters, not just "; )" converted to graphical symbol. Apple is smart for not getting into this business.. everybody knows that Japanese 3-carrier compatibility is a mess.

Actually, I'm happy with emoji in SMS - and email (or MMS, or whatever) doesn't really need any emojis inside the messages, no matter MobileMe or Crapbank's brain-dead email service ;)

It's great we finally got emojis!!
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No, I do not get it. I should be able to at least receive them. I can see any emoji on Gmail. why cannot I see it on the iPhone?:mad:
 
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