So this is where the multi-week delay in releasing iOS 18.4 beta 1 came from…
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iOS 18.4 Beta Adds New Emoji: Face With Eye Bags, Splatter, Fingerprint, Shovel and More
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Emojis date you, lots of people look in disdain at people using emojis. And emoji use skews usage-wise to older people so it's also seen as not cool
This is not my view it's what I've been told many many times
Being a nerd from my childhood, I am not too worried about being seen as uncool 😎🤪
We had one originally. It was changed to a water pistol with iOS 10.
To remember where you need to dig next year or so....
I think it would present a security nightmare to allow embeds in emoji
The next beta will include more blood splatter types!Did CSI sponsor this grouping of emojis?
Crime scene charades, emoji addition
Splatter colors please. I want inklings, marie, callie and a woobee sticker.
Selecting Emojis from the public? How do I get a position on this committee, undoubtably on a six figure salary?
No wonder Apple lacked the time to get Siri operational. They were working on stuff like Emojis that are way more important than AI????
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Order of operations:
Profits/Phones
Emoji
Services
Fruit rollups
AI
Pop tarts
Macs
Mac N cheese (heh)
AVP
It’s not really a salary at all from my understanding it’s just a committee. The Unicode consortium does way more than just emoji.
It’s all the iOS software engineers! They can’t innovate so let’s make worthless emoji’s.
People who get legit annoyed at the inclusion of new emojis sound like:
"Why are they making a new season of Severence on Apple+ while the iPhone battery life still isn't great?! Adam Scott needs to stop mucking around and write a fix for a wifi bug!"
"Why are they making a new season of Severence on Apple+ while the iPhone battery life still isn't great?! Adam Scott needs to stop mucking around and write a fix for a wifi bug!"
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GIF is more fun and expreesive indeed. But most people around me like something can be showed directly in notifications, instead of [GIF] or [Someone send you a photo].
You'd be surprised how little skillset overlap there is between optimizing the quantization of a LLM to execute on constrained hardware, and making a playful drawing of a shovel.
I wonder if this is how the Egyptians invented hieroglyphics... just adding more and more emojis
There was a real gun emoji. It changed when vendors realized that emoji are language, not merely symbols.
Once one vendor shipped with a toy gun, it meant someone on Microsoft sending a text message "I'm coming to get you! <super soaker>" was going to be misunderstood by someone on an Apple or Android device seeing "I'm coming to get you! <drawn firearm>".
Luckily you can send pictures, gifs and videos of whatever guns you want.
