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Apple Highlights Upcoming 2018 Emoji in Celebration of World Emoji Day
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He was being facetious. Clearly.
Lot of angry keyboard warriors in this here forum.
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Some perhaps think the resources going into emojis and laser messages could be used more productively elsewhere.
What if, instead of all these highly specific visual images, we had a much smaller set of symbols which represented phonetic sounds? Those phonetic symbols could then be combined in myriad ways to communicate an unlimited array of concepts, utterly free of intrinsic bias.
Remarkably efficient and technology neutral, with zero need for periodic system updates.
Given the present culture, it won't be easy to get there but I think it would be worth it. As Steve Jobs once said, "Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple."
Remarkably efficient and technology neutral, with zero need for periodic system updates.
Given the present culture, it won't be easy to get there but I think it would be worth it. As Steve Jobs once said, "Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple."
I dream of a world where there is an emoji representing every possible personal, place, thing, emotion and lifestyle. Then there will be world peace and everyone on MacRumors will live in perfect harmony one another.
Until then I'll just look forward to the emoji threads because I know I'll get three solid hours of free entertainment reading all the pithy comments and rants about emojis.
Until then I'll just look forward to the emoji threads because I know I'll get three solid hours of free entertainment reading all the pithy comments and rants about emojis.
I'm triggered!!!
Actually, it's not even emojis themselves I have a problem with, but the way they've been implemented (Unicode should not have adopted it at all); the arbitrary way in which new ones are added (and the original Japanese selection); and the seemingly unending proliferation with no plan or controls for an eventual limit so far as I can see. Basically there's been little to no system (or sense) to the whole thing. Is every animal going to get an emoji? Every bird? Every fruit and every vegetable? If not, why this one and not that?
Even MacRumors wisely forbids their use, opting instead for their own small selection, which are all you need for the purposes of this forum. I plan to write an article on this at some point.
Actually, it's not even emojis themselves I have a problem with, but the way they've been implemented (Unicode should not have adopted it at all); the arbitrary way in which new ones are added (and the original Japanese selection); and the seemingly unending proliferation with no plan or controls for an eventual limit so far as I can see. Basically there's been little to no system (or sense) to the whole thing. Is every animal going to get an emoji? Every bird? Every fruit and every vegetable? If not, why this one and not that?
Even MacRumors wisely forbids their use, opting instead for their own small selection, which are all you need for the purposes of this forum. I plan to write an article on this at some point.
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Yeah... so? Easy in, easy out. Not sure Apple should be worried about chasing the shallowest edge of fad lingo. Especially when it’s well gone from a design tragedy to now a design war crime.
‘Diversity’ emoji are still incredibly stupid and ultimately just reinforcing silly tribal differences down to minutia. Apple should be more evolved than that. They are willing to buck all sorts of other trends, they could easily put their foot down to the Unicode Consortium.
Their icon (emoji) designers have always been talented, but kinda seeming like their talents are being wasted on kiddie garbage while the overall UI could use a little pizazz.
Thanks to a British so-called comedian on TV late at night. ;-) and ;-( are all that's necessary.
Once upon a time Unicode were focused on important matters, not this garbage.
There's a world emoji day? Nuke the site from orbit, humanity is beyond saving.
It's sad to think that somewhere in Apple there's a department of 600 people doing nothing but designing this rubbish.
But even worse that people round the world look forward to this.
Mmm, gray hair/beard emoji.
Also, people are surprised that there is an emoji day? Every day is some “national xyz day.”
Vanilla ice cream, chocolate ice cream, ice cream, cake, donut, pizza, wings, bourbon (mmm), red wine, white wine, peeps, straw, toe nail, toe nail file, sandwich, panini, dirt, green slime, purple drank, steak, margarita, tequila, etc.
It’s the new version of a Hallmark holiday.
Also, people are surprised that there is an emoji day? Every day is some “national xyz day.”
Vanilla ice cream, chocolate ice cream, ice cream, cake, donut, pizza, wings, bourbon (mmm), red wine, white wine, peeps, straw, toe nail, toe nail file, sandwich, panini, dirt, green slime, purple drank, steak, margarita, tequila, etc.
It’s the new version of a Hallmark holiday.
What, like helping humans communicate?
It's probably more like 6 people. Maybe fewer, even.
Prior to emojis, people had to rely on crude smileys. You can find cave drawings and cuneiform tablets inscribed with semi-colons and parenthesis.
Even in July 2018, we still struggle to communicate, due to the lack of multi-ethnic 1980s male porn star emojis, but fortunately, the end to that suffering is coming soon.