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Apple May Add Reversible Emoji in iOS 12 and macOS 10.14 Next Year

Y’all talk trash about emojis, yet most people use them all the time

This will be welcomed
 
guzhogi said:
While you're correct that Apple isn't responsible for creating new emojis, one could argue that Apple is under no obligation to implement new emoji.
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But Android users would point and laugh if they didn’t. I also use Android. I see things. I hear things. ;)

The emoji are there if we want them and easily ignored if we don’t. No biggie. I doubt it’s a resource intensive process for Apple to accommodate them.
 
Blakey. said:
Cue rant about Emoji when the developers responsible for all the current bugs have nothing to do with the designing of them.
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The idea is that they should stop paying the emoji team as much and cut down on employees in that group, and put that money towards hiring new people and increasing the salary of the guys working on macOS, Mac Pro, and Mac mini.

It doesn't matter if they're completely different, it's all within the same company, and the fact is, they've got all these different emojis that nobody uses once, meanwhile High Sierra is unstable garbage, the Mac Pro is as good as dead, and Mac mini has been completely swept under the rug, and like the other guy said, even the iMac is apparently outdated. It's almost sickening to see what they're doing with the Mac.

People are right to abandon Apple, they've totally transformed.

Apple has truly embraced their Californian status...
 
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Why would they focus on polishing software/hardware when they can sell these half baked but with new emojis? It's brilliant.
 
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HallStevenson said:
I realize that the bulk of 'emoji' work is done by a graphic designer vs a programmer but couldn't these resources be better utilized ? Emojis ? Ooooh, ooooh, "reversible" one !
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Don't forget that this isn't Apple's decision - Apple don't really have a choice than to put a small number of resources into this if they're going to maintain compatability with the unicode emoji standards.
 
nvmls said:
Why would they focus on polishing software/hardware when they can sell these half baked but with new emojis? It's brilliant.
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What does one have to do with the other? Where is the evidence Apple is focusing on emoji at the expense of other things? Where is the evidence that software bugs are a result of spending too much time on emoji?
 
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The Unicode Consortium has proposed new guidelines that would allow for reversible emoji. In other words, emojis such as a car or train that currently face to the left or right only would be able to face either direction.

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Reversible emoji mockup via Emojipedia​
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WOW!!!
Incredible future. what about JUMPING emojis? I would love then MORE then the bidirectional. I swear.
 
brucewayne said:
I sympathise with those that are complaining that this is a news story. After weeks of product setbacks, major MacOS and iOS problems, aging product lines (Mac mini is 3 years old, Mac Pro is 4 years old, recently refreshed notebooks and iMacs already have last generation processors), products that were supposed to be ready by December with no ETA (iMac Pro, HomePod). They can't even work out their differences with Amazon to get the promised Prime video app on the ATV that I have on a 5 year old Sony.

Siri, HomeKit, and the ATV all still seem to be hobbies to Apple, after people have invested thousands to stay in the ecosystem. As an example, their super hyped assistant Siri is so far behind Alexa on AI and voice recognition - even on the fastest iOS device (iPhone X) there is still a noticeable lag to when she starts listening. Since the iOS designers took out the beep you have no idea when that starts. If you wait too long she times out (and you get a condesending Are you still there?). So if you say 'Siri, turn the kitchen lights off' and all she catches is 'off' every ***** light and switch linked to HomeKit is turned off. How is that a good experience? The $29 Echo Dot hears nearly every word I say and works nearly every time because it figures out the context of what I want to do. Siri gets tripped up if I say 'Turn off the Christmas lights' instead of 'Turn the Christmas lights off' . Or how about these 'AV enthusiasts' at Apple that are working so hard on making the sound quality on the HomePod 'perfect' but didn't figure out until TVOS 11.2 that maybe customers buying a premium product like an ATV would want their content to output native frame rates and SDR/HDR.

Apple has 250+ BILLION dollars in the bank and they are pissing off loyal customers by letting their core products languish.

But hey, we have reversible emojis and 3 new watch bands to look forward to.
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This is an articulate succinct post that gets to the heart of customer dissatisfaction with Apple these days. The problem is that posting it here in this topic reduces it to an out of place rant. You really should email it to Apple’s customer feedback link or to Tim Cook or someone at Apple. Or find better places on this forum where you could lead a really productive discussion. Your post is going to get buried here, which is a shame.
 
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Those weren't hieroglyphics we found from ancient civilizations. They were their emoji... and the fact that their writings devolved into stupid scribbly pictures is why those civilizations perished.
 
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Blakey. said:
Cue rant about Emoji when the developers responsible for all the current bugs have nothing to do with the designing of them.
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Cue the rant about those that say ‘Cue rant about Emoji when the developers responsible for all the current bugs have nothing to do with the designing of them.’ :rollseyes: Emoji designers could be doing QA.
 
At some point, and I think that point has long passed, why don't they just make an emoji factory/creator where you can create your own personalized emoji self?

Like making a Mii on the Wii.

Also/or, let us select a base skin/hair/eye color setting system/emoji-wide.
 
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I am surprised to see, over and over again, that emojis are so important to Apple. They even boasted them as an exclusive feature of the Apple X (animojis) or their 2016 MBP (touchbar emoji scrolling).

Am I the only one who has hardly ever used any?
 
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And yet the "racists" still don't have blue eyes (or green) for emojis!!!! I am outraged and triggered by this clear anti-people-of-eye-color action!

It tages courage!
 
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timborama said:
Cue the rant about those that say ‘Cue rant about Emoji when the developers responsible for all the current bugs have nothing to do with the designing of them.’ :rollseyes: Emoji designers could be doing QA.
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BaltimoreMediaBlog said:
Seriously, are there really that many 13 year girls with $1000 besides Tim Cook? :D

These constant posts about new emojis is just junk to me that clutters up an otherwise useful device.
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Koh Phi Phi said:
I am surprised to see, over and over again, that emojis are so important to Apple. They even boasted them as an exclusive feature of the Apple X (animojis) or their 2016 MBP (touchbar emoji scrolling).

Am I the only one who has hardly ever used any?
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Every single one of you realizes that this was a post about the emoji consortium and not apple right?
 
Read some Chaucer in the original for some bizarre spelling, grammar, and words. Back then whichever way you wanted to spell something was the right way for somebody.

It's probably generational, but I'm an early adopter and I still find no need for emojis. Just don't care for tiny, ugly cartoons I guess.
 
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What next!?

- upside down emoji
- thin emoji
- think emoji
- emoji embedded emoji
- long/short emoji
 
Koh Phi Phi said:
I am surprised to see, over and over again, that emojis are so important to Apple. They even boasted them as an exclusive feature of the Apple X (animojis) or their 2016 MBP (touchbar emoji scrolling).

Am I the only one who has hardly ever used any?
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You're not the only one, but one of the only ones. :)
 
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