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Title: Apple brings a squirt gun to the emoji arms race Post by: HCK on August 05, 2016, 04:05:14 pm Apple brings a squirt gun to the emoji arms race
<article> <section class="page"> <p>Apple’s support for emoji across its platforms has been strong for a while now (http://www.macworld.com/article/3002238/ios/apples-emoji-are-the-best-but-finding-them-is-the-worst.html), and with the arrival of the most recent iOS 10 and macOS Sierra betas (http://www.macworld.com/article/3102806/operating-systems/apple-updates-developer-betas-of-ios-10-and-macos-sierra.html), we’ve gotten our first look at new symbols (http://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-10-emoji-update-first-look/) that everyone will have as options to use when the new versions of both operating systems ship this fall.</p><p>While emoji are a standard–a subcommittee of the Unicode consortium decides on the specification–they’re not as standardized as you’d think. Most amazingly, there’s no standard emoji imagery. Every platform vendor–operating-system manufacturers like Apple, Microsoft, and Google, but also web companies like Twitter and Facebook–has to commission its own illustrations of the emoji symbology.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3104174/ios/apple-brings-a-squirt-gun-to-the-emoji-arms-race.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Apple brings a squirt gun to the emoji arms race (http://www.macworld.com/article/3104174/ios/apple-brings-a-squirt-gun-to-the-emoji-arms-race.html#tk.rss_all) |