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

madrag said:
Seriously, why waste valuable space on the iPad/iPhone with these emoji (hundreds if I read correctly!)
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I think you're dramatically overestimating the amount of space it takes to store each emoji... it's a few KB per emoji. Multiple it by a few hundred and you're talking about maybe a few MB. It takes 1024 MB to equal a single GB. So all the emojis take up less than 1% of 1% of the space on even the iPhones with the smallest hard drives.

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Apple can't just keep shoving in more emojis without coming up with a serious way of organizing them. This is just getting ridiculous. I'm pretty sure I use fewer emojis than I would otherwise because of how overwhelming the number of emojis has become - it's become too much of a chore to sift through them for it to be worth using at all.
 
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Emojis, which are a part of the Unicode standard and as goofy as they are, owe their existence not to Apple but this organization https://www.unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html

I linked specifically to their pipeline page so everyone can see the potential horrors that await. ;) Unfortunately while I see links to help people propose an emoji, there is no link for “In the name of all that is good and sane, please make it stoppppppp!”

Because emojis are a part of a standard, Apple takes part in their development. This has nothing to do with nor takes away from other aspects of product development. At least the Apple emoji are reasonably aesthetically pleasant. I’ve seen some other versions that were lame enough to make me appreciate that Apple does dedicate some talent and effort to these.
 
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sza said:
LOL. Soon emoji will become the next generation of the natural language.
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It already is, It's universal language.
As all symbolic, art and/or images. No matter what languages you speak, emojis are understood.
 
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MH01 said:
Of course - one area they are actually innovating in. Some of their software updates
Are primary focused on it. Nails their new demographic and sells phones
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Ahhh! I see you have figured out the tenets of capitalism! Make things people want to buy and then keep the money you make!
 
simonmet said:
I can’t find an emoticon to sum up the ridiculousness of all this. It would have to be a cross between tearing my hear out and looking criminally insane.

Perhaps a straight jacket emoticon would work too.
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Perhaps instead of this stuff...they could put one of the Cupertino Genuses on the case of the High Sierra screw up with utilities...etc...or is that asking too much????????????????????????????????????????????
 
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My grandchildren are going to think i'm crazy when I tell them I used to have to spell words out to form structured sentences.

It's like we're transitioning back to hieroglyphics.
 
I thought the last one was Khaleesi but after a second look is a girl with her towel lol
 
simonmet said:
I can’t find an emoticon to sum up the ridiculousness of all this. It would have to be a cross between tearing my hear out and looking criminally insane.
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how about this one:

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I like apple and all, but damn.
Given the mess that 11 seems to be for so many, how about pushing fixes out instead of pandering to the 12 year olds.


sigh.


 
Soba said:
It is a shame that so much attention is paid to the new emoji in each Unicode release when emoji comprise a minuscule portion of the Unicode standard. Unicode 10.0 added over 8500 characters and only 56 of them were emoji.

The release includes over 7400 Chinese/Han characters, 285 Japanese hentaigana (from a now-obsolete but still occasionally used syllabary), a script for a central Indian language, and many others.

http://unicode.org/versions/Unicode10.0.0/

Apple doesn’t mention any of this in their press release, as if the rest of the standard isn’t a priority. These Unicode advances are very important to certain groups and they should not get short shrift, IMO.

But we can rest easy knowing that vampire and broccoli are coming. I, of course, am holding off on upgrading until Invisible Man and rutabaga.
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This made me laugh!

hsoj1006 said:
You DO realize that there are different departments that handle things like bug and hardware/software issues? Not to mention, this stuff isn't mutually exclusive. They can care about emojis as much as other issues (even though one has nothing to do with the other). It can't be this hard for you to understand this, right?
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Haha yeah I would not be surprised if Apple had an entire department dedicated to just emoji. All making six figures or more. Not sure how you know this but again would not be at all surprised.
 
But will they support Smart Invert? All this wasted GBs on Emojis, you'd expect they were fully compatible with iOS 11.
 
madrag said:
Seriously, why waste valuable space on the iPad/iPhone with these emoji (hundreds if I read correctly!) and not concentrate on more productive things?
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If it was confined to iDevices I'd be fine with it. It's the fact they replaced physical F-keys with an Emoji collection on MBPs that I find demoralizing. I mean I get that kids use the iPhone the same way we use to play "pass the note," and they get a thrill out of sending out and receiving cartoon poops. But I do actual work on my MBP. Physical F-keys are important. I can only imagine what an "executive summary" of a report will look like in 20 years once this generation is in the work force. Ah, who am I kidding. By then we'll have robots and Animojis doing all the work anyway.
 
I hate :mad:‘s. Why would anyone ever use an :confused:. Words are so much easier. Are you too :cool: or something? :apple: made it worse by making :eek:‘s bigger. Now every time my mom sends me an :oops:, it makes me :(.

What am I saying, i love :Ds!!!! MacRumors, take your hand out of your ;) and give me some more :)s!!!
 
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