Apple clearly has their R&D money in the right place! So much emoji how can anyone else keep up....
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70+ New Emoji Characters to Be Included in Upcoming iOS 12.1 Update
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Humans are literally – not figuratively – literally regressing to using hieroglyphics. This is getting out of hand.
And still no search bar....even more scrolling now to find an emoji
How is this not utter triviality? Where's the MacBook Air update?
I can see the discussion in Apple’s boardroom: “Do we add this artwork to the phone, or do put those artists to use increasing battery life?” Put in that way, I think it’s obvious that one thing does not have anything to do with the other thing. I think your point is that you wish Apple would focus on battery life, but my argument is that adding more emojis is completely disconnected from that. Adding emojis just requires some artwork. Adding battery life involves electrochemistry as well as balancing iPhone weight and thickness and resistance to lighting up in flames.
Instead of sheepily adopting it, I thought they were to protect their customers to fake stuff, nonsense, fluff and bad taste
Not conforming to Unicode standards can cause huge problems in software development. It's in Apples, and the consumers best interest that this standard be adopted.
With the gazillions of emojis across my phone/ipad's emoji selection menu, it's amazing how many obvious choices they don't have. I wanted to send some sort of baby emoji along with a message to daughter, who just had a baby, and was surprised there were none. The closest thing was a mother holding a baby. No fathers holding babies, no babies within the countless family unit options. Moral: Tim hates babies.
Apple makes their Emoji designs and implements support. That's all of the difficult part, which is why the emojis either lag behind or look like crap or don't render properly on other platforms. Apple also pumps resources into other Emoji-related things like their AR filters. The Unicode standard says nothing other than what each character is supposed to be.
Even if you only count the character assignment as "making the emoji," Apple also actively influences the Unicode consortium, and they have a lot of say. So I think it's fair to say Apple is at the very least responsible for the new emojis.
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I love that you went straight for equating "wrong, hateful, racist" with "white person". *chef's kissy fingers*
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These people can’t walk and chew gum at the same time so of course they don’t think Apple can do two things at once also.
Like fixing the charging issue etc? Me too. Glad those have already been patched.
I’m convinced the people who say these things don’t really believe it. People just can’t be that stupid. I think they do it for attention and considering there’s probably twenty + people in this thread saying “glad Apple has its priorities right” there are apparently a lot of people starving for attention.
When the expressed viewpoint is to denigrate representation of other races and suggest its just fine the way it was before (where one race was prominently represented and others weren't), um yeah, it is wrong, hateful and racist. Just because someone has an opinion, doesn't mean that opinion is worthy of respect. Quit treating your fellow human beings like they deserve to have any personal opinion respected regardless of how awful and hateful it is.
We haven’t had enough emojis of faces with hearts. No seriously, I mean it. I have recklessly overused the Heart Eyes and Face Throwing A Kiss emojis, when all I wanted to say was Smiling Face With 3 Hearts. Thank you, Apple!
