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Thousands of years from now alien researchers will stumble upon our planet. They'll report that despite more than two-thirds of the planet being water at the time we never figured a way to get clean drinking water to a large portion of our civilization. When the author of the report is questioned as to how we did spend our time and effort they'll reference these primitive computational devices with pretty little pictures.
 
Anybody know if you can change all the emojis to a default color? When you want to use a new emoji, but then have to choose the dark skin tone even though frequently used ones have been changed and remain so.
 
I need an emoji that illustrates me doing drywall. That way I can just respond with that when people ask me what I'm doing rather than using words. I don't care if the emoji is black or white or whatever. I can't believe this isn't a feature yet.
 
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This is such great news. I've been upset for so long that Apple has been ignoring its professional consumer base, shipping over-priced and under-powered hardware, and pandering to the least-common-denominator...

But now that we have reversible emojis, everything is a-okay! (I'm so sorry, Tim. I can't believe that I ever doubted you. Here. Take my money. Please, take it!)


o_O
 
I would like them to add an emoji of an updated mac mini. so that I can tell apple with just one little icon what they are supposed to be working on instead of wasting time for this bs.
 
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Who needs prioritized Bluetooth, when you can get dozens of more unusable emoji's?
I mean, the idea of automatically setting a hierarchy of where Bluetooth goes to for phone calls (1- Phone; 2 - Airpods; 3 - Car Bluetooth) being different from where Bluetooth music is played. I doubt I'm the only one who wants a phone call routed to my Airpods while I'm driving, yet would listen to music in my Car audio system.
No, let's not do that .... more stupid emoji's. How bout some more cat emoji's? Maybe some killer clown emoji's? Certainly they are as useful as 99.5% of the crap emoji's that pollute the keyboard now.

Because the team working on bluetooth is the same team that is working on emoji. Non sequitur much?
 
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?
Nope, (raises hand to join the hardly uses crowd).
 
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Hmmm, lotta old dudes in this thread telling young kids to get off their lawn because they don't like emojis.

I don't use emoji's, but I know I don't get annoyed if the dictionary gets updated every year with new words. Let the kids communicate how they want to communicate. We can stick to our overly long prose and it literally doesn't affect us, there is no phase out procedure for the written language in place.
 
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I wonder if anybody at Apple realizes they are being thoroughly mocked here.
Probably not since this article is about the emoji consortium and not apple.

WHO CARES!?!? How about spend more time making a decent iOS and less time on cartoon characters? This is why iOS 11 is garbage because we had to have talking animals. What a joke
You know that graphic artists probably don’t know much programming language right?
 
Agree with the comments about not being able to find what you want. I also give up after a few seconds.
An intelligent search algorithm or I will just stick to my recents.
 
the emoji interface will become a mess if they keep adding emoji's.
they can be fun and add some flavour but tiresome to look for the right one.
and emoji suggestions from Apple are kinda meh...
Instead of focusing on technology and proper iOS integration and better apps! They are busy with total poop icons!
 
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Look ^ a bunch of people with opinions that aren’t based in reality.

The reality is Apple is obsessed with emojis. Just watch any Apple Keynote and you'll see. But the reality is where is an updated Mac mini or Mac Pro? Why does Apple carry a pro-level computer such as the Mac Pro, but has not made a single update to it in over 4 years?

The reality is Apple has become a phone company and they are more concerned with impressing the YouTube generation with emojis than they are with creating amazing computing devices and pro level products.

That's the new reality my friend.
 
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Everyone is bashing Apple for new Emoji, it's not them it is the The Unicode Consortium standards board. Saying other features are suffering because of supporting the unicode standards (emoji) isn't a valid analogy, different resources. Like emoji or not, Apple really has to support additions to the standard or the same people bitching now (and many more) will be complaining that their iPhones display strange characters in messages, social media, web [etc] when people on other platforms use them.
 
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?

Including more and more emoji on broken OS release/updates? I know.. "Courage".
 
The reality is Apple is obsessed with emojis. Just watch any Apple Keynote and you'll see. But the reality is where is an updated Mac mini or Mac Pro? Why does Apple carry a pro-level computer such as the Mac Pro, but has not made a single update to it in over 4 years?

The reality is Apple has become a phone company and they are more concerned with impressing the YouTube generation with emojis than they are with creating amazing computing devices and pro level products.

That's the new reality my friend.
That’s your reality. I create pro-audio regularly with great new software plugins that are regularly added and updated in Logic Pro X on my very capable 15” MacBook Pro late 2016 with touch bar. Sorry you can’t see past their consumer marketing and find a good use for their current offerings.

The reality is that they can do both things and any argument suggesting the addition of emoji is taking away from the focus on pro products is just utter nonsense.
 
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Apple innovations continue. Reversible emojis. Finally. Thank you, Apple. I can now properly express myself. Here's $1,000 for the new hardware that wills support these breakthrough innovations. Take my money.
 
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Because the team working on bluetooth is the same team that is working on emoji. Non sequitur much?
When you get a job, you may realize that Corporations operate on budgets, and different departments operate within budget constraints. Thus, as Apple's software team that incorporates "Emoji's" does little more than incorporate a .gif file into an icon bar; this consumes resources that could be better spent fixing obvious bugs, you know, like the bugs that were fixed with 11.1.0, 11.1.1, 11.1.2 and the Saturday drop of 11.2 to fix the reboot on Dec 2nd issue? One could also argue that the budget given to Product Development could be increased, as we are over 1,000 days since the Mac Mini update, the Mac Pro seems to be abandoned, and the current Mac Mini crop are less powerful than the 2012 design of the same Mac Mini. Or, perhaps you don't know what Non Sequitur means?
 
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