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Apple Confirms New Emoji Are Coming to iPhone and iPad in iOS 11.1

Another example of Apple dumbing down? Don't be ridiculous. Carpool Karaoke for the lowest common demnominator crowd? Rubbish. How preposterous. None of this proves such. And .... and...er..hang on. I haven't seen that one. Look. People in car. Singing like iconic Wayne's World Bohemian Rhapsody scene (where it was nicked from originally). Ha ha. Funny. Driving. Singing. Make me laugh. No. Must fight urge to watch .... mustn't watch .... plagiarised utter dross. But keep...getting distracted. Must resist. What that funny faces? Look. Funny faces. Very funny. Make me laugh. Like Emoji Movie. No! It's inanity in the extreme. No more! This is the antithesis of intelligent, creative thought and ... no ..
It's happening again...getting drawn in ... must fight .... ha ha. Having said that. I have to admit ... look. Man still driving and singing to other man and lady in car. See? Me laugh. Me type with pictorial method to refrain from brain over-usage. I choose 'Tom Tit' (cockney rhyming slang) emoji to express the fact I think a subject is descriotive of such. Funny faces. Ha ha. Sorry. Faeces. Me laugh at funny fae....faces.

("That's enough sarcasm for one post!"- Macrumors Ed.)
 
That’s nice innovation from Apple, took so much time for this. After 10 years same iPhone perhaps getting worst year by year. These guys are unable manage own product line. BS emojis don’t sell phone innovation does which lacks in Apple DNA now since jobs left everyone with these stupid people.
 
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madrag said:
I rarely comment on this type of topics, but here goes my rant:

Seriously, why waste valuable space on the iPad/iPhone with these emoji (hundreds if I read correctly!) and not concentrate on more productive things?

The way I see it is that these attract people (otherwise Apple wouldn't invest so much time/money on it), but reading the comments from past emoji updates, I can see I'm not alone, and I really am confused if even with so many comments we are a minority?

Anyway, I'll stick to my "colon closed parenthesis", thank you.
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They are not mutually exclusive.
 
VulchR said:
Seriously? A curling stone? That'll make the Scots happy...
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Oh no it won't, nothing makes the Scots* happy unless they can deep-fry it and eat it. :D

*And before the mock outrage, virtue signalling, and taking offence starts... I'm Scottish, by Scots parents + born + grew up there definition, not just some ancestor or other ;)
 
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WOW breathtaking how about fixing 3d touch and home button delay and animations not more dam emojis what is this
 
HiRez said:
I'm hoping The vampire emoji is a hint it's coming before Halloween.
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I don't share your optimism, unfortunately.

iPhone X is pre-order for Friday 10/27, with release being Friday 11/03.
New iOS versions typically come out on Wednesdays, which would make it Wednesday 11/01.
Halloween is Tuesday 10/31.

Although, 11.0 was released on Tuesday 9/26. So who knows with Apple anymore.
 
madrag said:
I rarely comment on this type of topics, but here goes my rant:

Seriously, why waste valuable space on the iPad/iPhone with these emoji (hundreds if I read correctly!) and not concentrate on more productive things?

The way I see it is that these attract people (otherwise Apple wouldn't invest so much time/money on it), but reading the comments from past emoji updates, I can see I'm not alone, and I really am confused if even with so many comments we are a minority?

Anyway, I'll stick to my "colon closed parenthesis", thank you.
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It should be better and more generally understood that Unicode isn't just about emojis - in fact it's mostly about non-Arabic language symbols and emojis are only quite a small part of what Unicode does for us. There's a good summary of what Unicode does here.
 
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There's people who make the same complaints on every emoji story since they were launched who still don't get it that it's not Apple that decides to introduce new emojis, it's the Unicode Consortium, and unless Apples bake the new emojis into iOS, iPhone users end up looking at a lot of meaningless placeholders.
 
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Hopefully they take their time with iOS 11.1. iOS 7.1 was a great example of them speeding up an operating system especially on old hardware, it took them time but it was well worth it.
 
StevieD100 said:
There are far more important things in life than emoji's. The tanking of the emojii move should be enough to tell you how important they are to the majority of people.
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What's your point? I use emojis every day and am happy to get more, but I didn't see the emoji movie because I thought it was a stupid idea for a movie.
 
Perhaps it would be prudent to direct the significant engineering resources at their disposal towards more pressing matters, such as fixing notifications, control center and other UI transgressions across iOS 11. Just my $0.02.
 
I wonder if they've ever figured out what the upper limit is on the number of emojis they can load onto the iPhone, and still be actually usable to people?
1000? 10000?
 
LOL. Soon emoji will become the next generation of the natural language.
 
Cole Slaw said:
I wonder if they've ever figured out what the upper limit is on the number of emojis they can load onto the iPhone, and still be actually usable to people?
1000? 10000?
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I imagine at some point an emoji keyboard will make sense with user-defined key placement, instead of scroll/drop down lists.
 
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