Former Apple Intern Looks Back at Designing First Apple Emoji in 2008

[Jsameds]

All I can say is, thank god Apple put all this time and effort into this ongoing project, and did not waster their time on something pointless, like longer lasting/larger batteries.

Except every iPhone since iPhone 3G has had a larger and longer lasting battery.

 

[Sunshoopa]

This thread is why Apple's greatView attachment 746459

The top one looks like it’s CG whereas the bottom one looks cartoony. I kinda prefer googles here.

Edit: Oh, the order of the insides, now I get it.

 

[Jsameds]

The top one looks like it’s CG whereas the bottom one looks cartoony. I kinda prefer googles here.

Edit: Oh, the order of the insides, now I get it.

https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/28/google-finally-fixes-burger-emoji/

 

[SgtPepper12]

I think Apple's emojis look bad and overdone, simply because there is too much detail in them. They should be neutral symbols that barely contain enough details to make them recognizable. After all, this is exactly why we have this huge mess with people feeling overlooked or insulted by the skin color or gender of them. It was absolutely unnecessary to include any such details when the details do not matter at all. They are "emojis" and to my understanding emotions are not specific to gender or race. There is no black/white or male/female happiness or whatever, it simply makes no sense and sends a really weird message.

 

[routine_analyst]

I love how the egg plant is featured. LOL

 

[DeepIn2U]

These Emoji were awesome because they were created under Steve's watch.

Ahem ... Scott Forstall's watch. All details went through Scott for iOS approval including icons for Apps (internal/external).

I really hope Macrumors readers read this part so we don't hear the crying about how "Apple is ignoring <insert something to be outraged about here> and focusing on emoji!"

Emoji are part of the Unicode standard. Ignoring the Unicode standard leads to bugs.

Emoji's where not originally part of the Unicode standard.

Emoji were first defined in Unicode 6.0, and pre-6.0 characters were only defined as emoji in 6.0 or later.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji

Nothing against Emoji's but the amount of press and exposure they have is just ridiculous. Sign of the times.

You and I are in complete agreement. Moreover I think Federighi said it best at a WWDC presentation about integrating into iMessage with "tap tap tap" to emojify your text. "Kids in the future will no nothing about the english language" (to paraphrase).

 

[Fzang]

However, I hate emoji. I block people who use and I won't participate.

First sign of getting old.

 

[Wanted797]

I still remember when you had to either enable the japanese keyboard or download an emoji app on the AppStore to enable emojis haha

Yep I still remember downloading the emoji keyboard app haha

 

[Tech198]

Yea, emogi's have come a long way.

"When Guzman was handed the emoji project at Apple, it came at a time when emoji were unfamiliar in the English speaking world."

and its still unfamiliar today.... Times haven't changed a bit

We know what they mean, but not all of them... Even i scratch my heads on a few, and thinks it still some coded message someone is trying to communicate.