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T-Rex, Hedgehog, Sandwich, Vampire and Zombie Among Emoji Proposed for 2017's Unicode 10
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Hopefully we will soon get a video. Each pixel was carefully crafted after an exact replica made out of alooominium. Sorry Timmy. Until I see more of this amazing pipeline you kept bragging about the past five years, the mockery will continue. Now where is my Mac Pro.
I'm afraid these kind of "symbols expressing feeling" will become the future way of communication.
Easy, fast and universal. Kinda like musical notes.
Won't it be great if EVERYONE on this planet could communicate with EVERYONE ELSE off this planet without the need for "translation"?
Emojis (how trivial looking now) are a start... I just wonder what will come up after that.... but IMHO, it seems using symbols opposed to letters will be it.
So why do we need more EMOJIS?
I really have a hard time going beyond a smily face or two.
I really have a hard time going beyond a smily face or two.
Because kids.
Adults use words and phone calls to express themselves. the kids speak in cartoons.
I'm wondering if the former engineers from the Mac Pro dept. have now been enslaved to design emojis
Unicode is about a lot more than emoji characters. They have to standardize a massive set of characters used by all languages, current and historical, as well as a large number of symbols. It has to work consistently across all platforms and computing devices to allow people around the world to communicate. Emoji is just one small part of that that gets a lot of attention because they are 'cool' and interesting right now, and they are being rapidly adopted. They are quickly becoming an important adjunct for textual communication in modern times since everyone has high-resolution color displays with them at all times. I think one reason is because emotion is difficult to communicate via short bits of text.
I don't understand why people feel the need to come on every news post about emojis to tell everyone how they don't use emojis and don't understand why anyone would use them and they should stop making more. Jeez! Emojis didn't kill your family. They are made for casual everyday conversations with your friends. If someone uses them in a professional conversation, well, yeah, that's stupid. Personally I use them to make the tone of my message more clear. I don't go replacing words with emojis. If someone enjoys them, then that's good! There are some things I don't use on iOS that other people enjoy, but I don't go around saying they should stop putting time on those features.
Ok, so now this is serious. After the MacBook Pro unrelease they are back to serious work like this for another two years (or forever, because if they'll wait for Mac users to protest again before the next unrelease, they might find we left). You have now plenty of years available for continuing drawing emojis Apple!
I can understand that feeling. But the answer is to complain to the Unicode Consortium, who has control over this. Many will complain for each round of Apple adding emoji in macOS and iOS (I know that's not what you're doing here), but Apple is simply implementing a standard that they're expected to follow, and that someone else keeps amending.
I was happy enough when we only had ASCII, and it was just
:-( :-/ ;-) ;-P and X-D. If I understand correctly, Emojis came from pre-smartphone telcos in Japan, and apparently they needed like fourteen different emojis to express subtly different variations of embarrassment (which I admit are lost on me), so I can never quite differentiate between some of them, while others I would expect seem curiously absent (or just hard to find). I don't really need any more. But I still can't find a good replacement for :-/