Apple Highlights Upcoming 2019 Emoji in Celebration of World Emoji Day

[M5RahuL]

There's only 365 days ( except once ) .. claim your ' World Day _ ' spot right now!!

 

[H3LL5P4WN]

I'm just fine with adding more and more and more emojis if people feel like they are actually important.

What I want is a way to HIDE emojis. There are pages and pages of useless emojis that I will never use, and so it takes me forever to find the ones I want. Why can't we just have a simple option to go through and mark a bunch of them to "hidden"?

I guess the poor man's version of that is the Frequently used section right at the front.

 

[Justanotherfanboy]

And you know this because? Or are you just making stuff up again.

Lol, how do we know that the trivial “work” of conforming to new Unicode standards doesn’t negatively affect other projects at Apple??!!

Ummm.... it seems like embarrassingly painfully obvious to me- but on the off chance you are are truly confused & not just spoiling for a fight, I can break it down for you.

At Apple, certainly you recognize that nobody in any upper tier of management (the executives/main decision makers) are doodling up new emojis for iOS inclusion, yeah?
Ok, good. So we’ve established that no meetings or projects they’re involved in would be even in the slightest way affected.
Next we’ve got all the hardware designers- from those working on A series processors, baseband, audio, & other chips, to those working on Watch, HomePod, etc. We can agree that none of those guys are randomly retasked to something not even vaguely hardware related or in their wheelhouse whatsoever... like emoji design, yeah?
Ok, cool... so we’ve established that no projects that have anything to do with hardware would be impacted even in the most minor way at all.
I can go on and on like this for every team, but hopefully you’re getting the idea here.
Is it taxing the marketing team?
Nope.
Is it on any of the software engineers’ radar, who are involved with the development of the myriad Apple operating systems?
Nope.

Hmmmm... so where does this minor work of implementing some new emojis each year, as proposed by the Unicode Consortium, actually happen?
The graphics department.
That makes sense to you, right?
That the guys who are part of a group making sure that Apple.com fonts are all uniform, the images are eye pleasing, etc. are likely the same crew that have to budget a few man hours each and every year, to no surprise, since Apple is a member of the consortium...
Ok. Awesome. Glad we’re all on the same page.
Now (wait for it..........)
How many hardware/software projects do you think could possibly come to a grinding halt, or even be adversely affected at all, by a small team in a COMPLETELY different department performing one small and totally expected yearly duty?

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!
You came to the logical conclusion of “zero”.

Congratulations- you are now free from ever having to be miffed about the evolution of emojis, due to your clear understanding that it has absolutely nothing to do with the timeframe surrounding software/hardware releases!!! =)

 

[Dirtfarmer]

LOL you go get 'em Tim. Change the world.

Not, like, in an August 1998 (iMac launch) way.

Or, like, in an October 21 2001 (iPod launch) way or anything

Or, like, in a June 29, 2007 (iPhone launch) way.

Not in an iTunes, changing music industry forever way.

More in like a "we make online TV shows and watch straps and aftermarket headphones now...just basically any bauble or widget we think people might buy...the margins are incredible" kind of way.

Hmm. Come to think of it, maybe Steve was right after all?

https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...rson-says-biographer-walter-isaacson.2189031/

#FIRETHEACCOUNTANT

 

[Lepton]

There are so many emojis that Apple needs better categorization of them in the keyboards. It takes too long to scroll around to find them. Also, there's no indicator of which ones have variations.

There is a pretty good display, and a search ability, in the Character Viewer opened from the Emoji & Symbols item in most Edit menus [on Macs]. There one can see each character and Emoji has an official name, and it's easily searchable. So adding search in the iOS Emoji keyboard should be easy!

 

[kirky29]

They have search on the MacOS emoji palette but on iOS I'm left to type a full word then use emoji replacement if it's something I haven't used recently and don't know its location in the emoji keyboard. A general search would be nice.

I hate how the auto emoji thing actually replaces the word! I always type something like “haha ”

 

[patent10021]

I know right now Larry David is trying to figure out how a blind person would even know how to use the blind man emoji.

 

[TheSkywalker77]

Coming in 13.1 I’m guessing?

 

[drpaul50]

We've basically come full circle on language writing and are now back to pictographs and hieroglyphics.

 

[cinq2]

A way for Tim Cook to practice his empty activism.

 

[Konigi]

It's hard to ignore 200 variations of the exact same thing. Just because there are challenged people that aren't able to just to understand what the emoji expresses and go with that, no they need black happiness, asian happiness, pacman happiness, owl kin happiness... they just can't be content with the same happiness for all.

Having different skin tones and gender does not take place because it's an option that appears if you keep your finger on the icon. For some people, having these differences make sense. Expressing diversity makes sense.

And for the rest, a koala is not the same as a panda. Etc. I hope you get it.

 

[frozencarbonite]

Dang. Still no vinyl record emoji.

 

[Regbial]

Somewhere an iMac is crying.

My "vintage" 2009 one with El Capitan (Crying emoji)
[doublepost=1563482665][/doublepost]Oh great, more freakin clutter with useless emojis (I mean the yo yo... the orange vest, banjo.. kiwi bowl whaaat?) ...

And STILL NO WHIP EMOJI!? WTH! What gives!! It would be SO useful.. smdh u_u

 

[cinq2]

Expressing diversity makes sense.

Why there should be diversity for emojis in the first place? This is about feelings. Yellow genderless emojis to rule them all is good enough.

Having 1500 emojis of which less than 40 are useful, to make a statement of diversity. It comes cheap for Apple, so yes it makes sense.

 

[ScreenSavers]

As a banjo player I'm excited to have this one. Not really something I expected!

 

[adib]

You're on to something. There are basically a lot of modifiers and similar concepts.

yellow round face -> smiling -> raised eyebrow

human face -> female -> skin tone two -> doctor profession

relationship -> male -> skin tone three -> female -> skin tone four

season object -> snowman -> with snow background

flag -> usa -> on fire

I'm obviously kidding on that last one (someone is going to think I'm serious though)

The last one could be an "on fire" modifier on top of another object. Just like ümlauts.

 

[dannys1]

- complaint about political correctness of emoji? check
- blaming Tim Cook? check
- thinking emoji creation deters from hardware development efforts? check
- thinly veiled bigotry*? check

emoji thread is off to a good start, the forums never fail to let me down (or should that be 'always let me down')



edit to add: incorrect attribution of emoji to Apple rather than the unicode consortium? check
edit to also add: old person complaining that back in their day they only used latin characters to message? surprisingly missing

*changed homophobia to bigotry to avoid triggering forum members who are offended by implications they are frightened of LGBTQ+ individuals

Haha this post is perfect. Kudos my friend.