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Apple Highlights Upcoming 2018 Emoji in Celebration of World Emoji Day
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I love the tears over cartoon figures that you are in no way forced to use.
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The family emoji already work exactly like that. For example, the emoji showing parents, a son, and a daughter is literally just a combination of seven code points: man, joiner, woman, joiner, girl, joiner, boy. As such, adding further complexity like different skin colors, beards, etc. isn't really that big a deal. It doesn't really bloat Unicode in a significant way.
A valid concern, I suppose, is how to come up with a good UI for customization. I think Apple is currently missing the mark here; I find it rather hard to scroll through all the emoji and find the one I'm looking for, and this won't make it easier.
This is true, but the corollary that everything should be generic doesn't follow.
Yes, and if novels never contained descriptions of their characters, everyone would feel represented. But nobody would truly identify.
World Emoji Day is a sad sign of where the world has gone wrong
you over-underestimate humanity and its fads
Emoji have already had an effect on the spoken language. People were using the flame emoji in texts to imply something was really good, and now in conversation they're saying something "is flames" when it's really good.
No, I use a handful. Never felt the need for the myriad they have.
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I guess the world is even more self absorbed and shallower than I had thought.
Wait... where's the Emoji celebrating the release of Apple's upcoming 2018 Emoji celebrating World Emoji Day, and the emoji celebrating the release of that emoji, and the one celebrating the release of THAT emoji...
World Emoji Day kicks off on July 17, and in celebration of the event, Apple today shared details on new emoji that are coming to iOS devices "later this year" as part of the Unicode 11 emoji release.
Apple plans to introduce 70 new emoji characters later this year, with new options for red hair, gray hair, curly hair, and no hair, along with smiley faces that include cold face, party face, pleading face, and face with hearts.
Super heroes, an eye-shaped nazar amulet, and an infinity symbol will be added, along with new animals such as kangaroo, peacock, parrot, and lobster. New food items include mango, lettuce, cupcake, and moon cake.
A full list of the emoji included in Unicode 11 are listed on the Emojipedia site, and Emojipedia was also able to interview Alan Dye, Apple's VP of User Interface Design to get some insight into how Apple designs new emoji.
According to Dye, when designing new emoji characters, Apple aims for a design that's "the most iconic" and "the most timeless representation" of the item in question. There's no specific formula, though, behind the look of each individual emoji.
"Without a doubt, we want it to always feel like an Apple emoji and that's what we're going for, but we really make that decision on a case by case basis," Dye said.
Apple often discusses adding more diverse options, such as emojis for black families, but it's a challenge to come up with an appropriate interface. "I think that you need a UI that can accommodate the variations," Dye told Emojipedia.
All of the new emoji Apple shared today will be available across iOS, macOS, and watchOS, joining the hundreds of emoji options that are already available. Apple has not said when the new emoji will be released, but they could come out either alongside the release of iOS 12 this September or in an iOS 12 update later this year.
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The only emoticons (the proper term,) I need can be made with a keyboard, and I don't need some graphic artist (which we all pay every time we buy something from Apple now).
I can mostly get by with just : and ) , and : and ( and sometimes :/ and maybe even the occasional : followed by D , and if I'm feeling snarky, ;p For everything else, I use my WORDS, and so should anyone else who isn't incapable of doing so.
(NOTE: I had to go back and edit this to remove the little graphics MacRumors added, which I did not intend. I wanted just the colon and parentheses, and colon capital D. )
All the rest of this noise is like having a GUI for a GUI, and it's getting ridiculous.
PS... get your emojis off my LAWN!
If this were to happen, emoji’s would actually be a decent solution as it would still allow for a written form of communication - albeit basic. Grammar would probably become very rigid.
Emoji’s are just a symptom of a much greater problem with the value our society gives to education, especially deep reading.
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Because for better or for worse it will affect the way 700,000,000 users communicate.
Yes!
I wish iOS would allow for text search for emoji (like macOS emoji pop-up has, although typing it kinda defeats the purpose of emoji in the first place) - and also perhaps pinned favourites (that don't go away like recents do).
We’re getting old, man.
Can’t wait for the “revival” of our old emoticons... 80’s and eyeglasses are back in fashion so there’s hope for some digital revival............
Because its a macrumors website not the failing New York Times. Be honest, how many times have you wished you had bald, black woman with huge eyes emoji on your phone?
Less emojis, better operating systems please.