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iOS 14.2 Beta 2 Adds New Emoji Characters like Ninja, Pinata, Bubble Tea, Polar Bear and More

MacBH928 said:
it clutters my keyboard, 1000s of emojis makes it hard to tell which is what and where is the smily I am trying to find.
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The floppy disc emoji clutters your keyboard? 💾🤪

Actually my keyboard is no more or no less cluttered. The search and quick select on the bottom helps tremendously.
 
MacBH928 said:
it clutters my keyboard, 1000s of emojis makes it hard to tell which is what and where is the smily I am trying to find.
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Generally the ones you use the most will appear in the "Recent" section at the front. Agreed that the whole list is a lot to deal with, but the problem goes all the way back to having 900 different emoji for slight variations on shame/embarrassment, it's not a new thing. But there's a search field now, which makes it a bit easier.
 
MacBH928 said:
I understand what you are saying and please concentrate on that you are using smilies which was what originally emojis supposed to be. BUT.... they have over did it, how many times would you need a top hat, crying cat, foot print, a camera, a flash on camera, and a floppy disk icon?
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Floppy disk icon I will definitely use, personally. None of the others... and that's pretty much exactly the point. Somebody wants to use a crying cat or footprint just as much as I want that floppy icon.

Nobody anywhere needs any of these icons. But then nobody needs an app that makes farting noises when you swing your phone around, or a virtual assistant that will give a hilarious answer to the question "what is zero divided by zero", or any individual game on AppleTV. But they, like countless other pointless things, are fun to have for a few people, so they exist, and there's no harm to the rest of us that they do.

To use a much more precise analogy, nobody needs the word "somnambulist" when "sleep walker" is easier to use and gets the point across. Yet the word exists, and has made its way into the dictionary, because sometimes it's nice to have a flashier way to say the same thing. Likewise for the innumerable newly-coined words that were created and stuck throughout recorded history.

Unicode was built with the technical and regulatory structure to easily add new emoji with very little friction, so the incremental cost to the world (or even any individual company) of adding new ones is minimal. Just like the incremental cost to the world of adding a new word to the dictionary. It hurts no one, a few people will enjoy it, and it has no real technical impact on any modern hardware, so why not.
 
Makosuke said:
Floppy disk icon I will definitely use, personally. None of the others... and that's pretty much exactly the point. Somebody wants to use a crying cat or footprint just as much as I want that floppy icon.

Nobody anywhere needs any of these icons. But then nobody needs an app that makes farting noises when you swing your phone around, or a virtual assistant that will give a hilarious answer to the question "what is zero divided by zero", or any individual game on AppleTV. But they, like countless other pointless things, are fun to have for a few people, so they exist, and there's no harm to the rest of us that they do.

To use a much more precise analogy, nobody needs the word "somnambulist" when "sleep walker" is easier to use and gets the point across. Yet the word exists, and has made its way into the dictionary, because sometimes it's nice to have a flashier way to say the same thing. Likewise for the innumerable newly-coined words that were created and stuck throughout recorded history.

Unicode was built with the technical and regulatory structure to easily add new emoji with very little friction, so the incremental cost to the world (or even any individual company) of adding new ones is minimal. Just like the incremental cost to the world of adding a new word to the dictionary. It hurts no one, a few people will enjoy it, and it has no real technical impact on any modern hardware, so why not.
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Well if thats the point of it then fine by me, because I was not thinking of it as a picture dictionary. I was thinking of it as "assisting smilies", it was originally made with text like the happy face and sad face and someone thought of making them into images and that would make them more fun and descritpvie. Hence I never saw the reason for an F1 car emoji or a handball player in male and another female version. Also there is a 3rd color variation.
 
MacBH928 said:
it clutters my keyboard, 1000s of emojis makes it hard to tell which is what and where is the smily I am trying to find.
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they’re categorised so you just go to the smily tab and there’s no need to see the floppy disc.
 
I'm still waiting for "vomiting statue of liberty". https://xkcd.com/1813/

I wonder why they don't just treat multiple emoji similar to kerning. Things look different based on what is adjacent. For example, a dumpster emoji followed by fire should be rendered as a flaming dumpster. If your os doesn't have a combined icon, it would still convey an appropriate meaning. Would also bypass the emoji review board since new glyphs could just be natural combinations of existing ones.
 
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