There's a whole lot of folks in this thread that have no actual clue about the technicals of emojis, but surely don't allow their ignorance to stop them from blathering on.
The primary complaint the "MOAR EMOJI?!?" crowd has is with Apple's insistence upon listing "new emojis" as a top item of "new features"; it is, if you understand the technicals, nonsensical, and straight pandering to ignorant users easily impressed by superficial things. In short, it is Apple saying they've accomplished something fantastic, when in reality they haven't really done much at all. It is both disrespectful to the intelligence of technical users—who spend significant time being hindered by bugs in Apple's code, or by their users being hindered, and, often, attempting to help Apple fix them by reporting and testing—and of less technical users—because Apple is treating them like babies, who goo and gah over baubles. It should be beneath Apple. But yet they persist.
And don't EVEN start with "Unicode Consortium" blah blah blah. You don't know what you're talking about. Stop wasting our time blathering about things you don't know about. It is annoying. MUCH more tiring than the complaining about Apple's propaganda decisions. Do you realize that there was an age when a user could add hundreds of new glyphs to their system by merely dragging a Font suitcase to the System folder? Zapf Dingbats, WebDings, etc. So adding new emojis in 2024 truly is the dumbest "feature" Apple could trumpet, there are other, much more important things that need addressed. Stop pandering to the idiocracy. That's the point of the complaining.
The primary complaint the "MOAR EMOJI?!?" crowd has is with Apple's insistence upon listing "new emojis" as a top item of "new features"; it is, if you understand the technicals, nonsensical, and straight pandering to ignorant users easily impressed by superficial things. In short, it is Apple saying they've accomplished something fantastic, when in reality they haven't really done much at all. It is both disrespectful to the intelligence of technical users—who spend significant time being hindered by bugs in Apple's code, or by their users being hindered, and, often, attempting to help Apple fix them by reporting and testing—and of less technical users—because Apple is treating them like babies, who goo and gah over baubles. It should be beneath Apple. But yet they persist.
And don't EVEN start with "Unicode Consortium" blah blah blah. You don't know what you're talking about. Stop wasting our time blathering about things you don't know about. It is annoying. MUCH more tiring than the complaining about Apple's propaganda decisions. Do you realize that there was an age when a user could add hundreds of new glyphs to their system by merely dragging a Font suitcase to the System folder? Zapf Dingbats, WebDings, etc. So adding new emojis in 2024 truly is the dumbest "feature" Apple could trumpet, there are other, much more important things that need addressed. Stop pandering to the idiocracy. That's the point of the complaining.
