"I'm obviously taking a risk here by advertising emoji directly."

Re:"I'm obviously taking a risk here by advertising emoji di... by bombcar on Friday March 06, 2026 @10:35AM (#47276246)

The number of unicode processing bugs that existed (and maybe some still exist) alone is reason to be a bit cautious.

And having emojis work "mostly" but not "everywhere" would have been something Jobs would have entirely been against - if they wouldn't work over normal non-iMessage SMS, for example, or not work reliably.

Remember the "emojigate" issues where the same emoji would display differently on different phones and make a funny message seem threatening, etc?

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Re:"I'm obviously taking a risk here by advertising emoji di... by mikkupikku on Friday March 06, 2026 @12:20PM (#47278015)

I thought it was weird when they made the gun emoji look like a toy.. to make threats seem funny? Or some sort of Sapir-Whorf thing? I don't know, it never made sense.

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Re:"I'm obviously taking a risk here by advertising emoji di... by bombcar on Friday March 06, 2026 @01:59PM (#47279474)

It was more troubling that it was different - so you send a squirt gun, I see a pistol, but even worse was that it was pointing in different directions on different platforms.

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