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Former Apple Intern Looks Back at Designing First Apple Emoji in 2008
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The more my kids use Emoji's - the more I think of this:
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Ah i miss those 1990's era flying toasters screen savers, afterdark i think it was called. lol
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Ah i miss those 1990's era flying toasters screen savers, afterdark i think it was called. lol
You sound old.
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Gboard, if you're into 3rd party keyboards.
You might not be aware, but visual designers and battery engineers don't work on the same thing.
I think it was Apple that really caused the popularity of Emoji in the US. I got my first iPhone in 2010 and found the Emoji to be amusing. I sent a few to my friends, but they all had Android phones at the time and couldn't see them. Apple led the charge on this.
It wasn't long before other phone makers caught on and now emojis are a big part of our culture.
Not sure whether to praise or berate Apple for this.
EDIT: I'll give Apple praise for popularizing something cute and fun in the US, and will berate Sony for making a really bad movie about it. Good compromise I think.
It wasn't long before other phone makers caught on and now emojis are a big part of our culture.
Not sure whether to praise or berate Apple for this.
EDIT: I'll give Apple praise for popularizing something cute and fun in the US, and will berate Sony for making a really bad movie about it. Good compromise I think.
Yes, because battery engineers are the ones designing emojis.
The more my kids use Emoji's - the more I think of this:
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Ah i miss those 1990's era flying toasters screen savers, afterdark i think it was called. lol
All those heart emojis and only one poop.
I share your nostalgia for the toasters. Johnny Castaway was another I was fond of.
AH YES! WOW now that takes me back! -All those heart emojis and only one poop.
I share your nostalgia for the toasters. Johnny Castaway was another I was fond of.
"I constantly checked the details: the direction of the woodgrain, how freckles appeared on apples and eggplants,"
I wonder where that intern stole the emojis from, which she then checked in so much detail
I wonder where that intern stole the emojis from, which she then checked in so much detail
Hyperbole. Considering the fact how things have changed dramatically in terms of interacting with iOS, emoji's/Animoji's , Augmented reality, etc. I would say Apple pays more detail today than they did 10 years ago.
Yeah! Too bad all those developers at Apple are just sitting around in beanbag chairs playing PUBG and eating free kale salads.
Because I literally can’t do a single thing on my phone or laptop. I sent in this post by snail mail.
Yes, because graphic designers are known for their innate skills at being battery designers.
Employment at Apple is not a zero sum game - you don't lose a battery designer because you've hired a graphic designer. You might as well complain about Apple hiring janitors to keep their offices clean, when those janitors should be turning their attention to designing the circuitry for the next-gen A12 chipset
Meh. And 10 years on we're still being told emojis take precedent over iOS improvements that really matter.
This sequence of objects is unheard of in the history of the internet. The set of emojis really is as disjoint as anything.
