87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone to be their next phone

Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by GekkePrutser on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @07:22PM (#33185110)

SMS has supported Unicode since the very early 2000s. I remember getting SMS messages in Thai on my Nokia 7110 GSM when I was in Thailand in 2003. So there's no technical reason why iMessage fallback to SMS doesn't support emoji.

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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by icedchai on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @07:28PM (#33185149)

I received an emoji from someone using SMS ("green text") on my iPhone today, so it most certainly does support it.

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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by hn_throwaway_99 on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @11:02PM (#33186657)

I'm not talking about the ability to put emojis in text messages. I'm specifically talking about the way virtually all messaging apps these days (iMessage, Android RCS messaging, Slack, etc.) have the ability to do emoji reactions to previous messages, e.g. long press and add a thumbs up, heart, barfing, whatever.

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