Read a blog post recently about emoji[0] that pointed out that by going to human emoji, you end up having to make weighted decisions about diversity. For example, the kiss emoji in the Google set was two genderless blobs, but in the new version the default one is M/F....
Basically the blog goes on to point out how Apple has kind of taken control of emoji design decisions thanks to the ubiquitousness of iphones.
App developers having basically only iphones has taken its toll. People include apple emoji even in android versions of their app! Basically you end up seeing google emoji only inside hangouts...
Read a blog post recently about emoji[0] that pointed out that by going to human emoji, you end up having to make weighted decisions about diversity. For example, the kiss emoji in the Google set was two genderless blobs, but in the new version the default one is M/F....
Basically the blog goes on to point out how Apple has kind of taken control of emoji design decisions thanks to the ubiquitousness of iphones.
App developers having basically only iphones has taken its toll. People include apple emoji even in android versions of their app! Basically you end up seeing google emoji only inside hangouts...
[0]:https://eev.ee/blog/2016/04/12/apple-did-not-invent-emoji/