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Title: Apple’s emoji are the best, but finding them is the worst Post by: HCK on November 08, 2015, 03:00:16 am Apple’s emoji are the best, but finding them is the worst
<article> <section class="page"> <p>I don’t know when I first noticed emoji. I probably assumed they were just another way for software to convert text-based emoticons into actual images, a feature I first saw in iChat on the Mac. But eventually I discovered that there was an entire catalog of iconography that was being used as part of Internet communication, and not too long after that, I came to embrace it. Like ASCII smileys before them, emoji add expressiveness to text chat, and that’s a good thing. </p><p>Apple has embraced emoji, too. With the release of iOS 9.1 and OS X 10.11.1, which added 184 new emoji symbols (http://www.macworld.com/article/2996042/ios/ios-9-1-is-here-complete-with-new-emojis.html), Apple’s devices now feature every single emoji in the Unicode standard (http://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-9-1-emoji-changelog/). Not only is someone at Apple making sure that it’s on top of the emoji world, but the art direction of Apple’s emoji is superb. </p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3002238/ios/apples-emoji-are-the-best-but-finding-them-is-the-worst.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Apple’s emoji are the best, but finding them is the worst (http://www.macworld.com/article/3002238/ios/apples-emoji-are-the-best-but-finding-them-is-the-worst.html#tk.rss_all) |