Why do people like Apple's emoji?
They're shitugly
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that said I don't like them either
With all this in mind: I like Google and HTC's interpretations better, in that order.
even all that weird shit with skin color altering subcharacters is standard
the emoji codes themselves are worthless, but the emoji images they code for are generally tacky and ugly
better to stick with emoticons
often times they're not even accurate. i want a genuine and enthused ppen mouth smile and so I type :D and then the service turns it into a cheesy, teethy grin. what the hell, service
just let me stick to doing everything in plaintext so i retain control of what i input and don't have to deal with non-wysiwyg situations please is it really that hard
plaintext is the same on any platform, any service, any site, and if it's simple enough, any device (provided you're using some reasonably standard font)
you can copy/paste across different mediums
you don't need fancy mouse or touchscree input (for those cases that use these)
you don't depend on extra images loading correctly or use bandwidth for anything other than text
plaintext is the most versatile and resilient and adaptible of all the formats, that's why it is the best
Also, I gotta give Apple credit for trying to keep up with the changing standards...they seem to be the first mainstream operating system to support the silly skin color modifiers and whatnot.
@GMH: what you're missing is that emoji are plain text. They're standard Unicode characters that are rendered as color graphics using a special font installed locally on your phone. That's why, if you have a rooted Android device, for example, you can change what emoji you see. You're just swapping out the font file.
Same.
Just thought I'd put that out there.
And Nasubi really is adorable. And weird.
I mean, the pants dance.