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Personally, I find it kind of ridiculous that new emojis are considered flagship features of mobile OS updates. I'd think that it would be possible to decouple emoji updates from kernel/security updates, so I imagine that Android/iOS tie them to the OS updates solely as a way to motivate non-technical users to update.

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batiudrami8y ago

I suspect it's probably just that "by the time we realised this would be important it was too hard to change it" rather than anything sinister. Though I wish they would pull them out so I can swap or update them externally to software.

"All current iOS emoji will now work on my phone" was genuinely a highlight of the Nougat update for my Galaxy S7 .

yincrash8y ago

Android actually recently released a support library that apps can implement for this.

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/look-and-feel/...

cakedoggie8y ago

Mobile OS's aren't just for grumpy old people.

saghmOP8y ago

I'm younger than emojis themselves, to be perfectly honest, but I hardly think that an (incorrect) ad hominem makes my point any less valid.

supercoder8y ago

Emojis have no relevance to how technical someone is

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scott_karana8y ago

GP's point wasn't that emojis shouldn't be updated, but that it shouldn't require MAJOR/BREAKING VERSION updates (kernel, libraries, the works) to simply update a sprite font.

cakedoggie8y ago

Who is saying it does? They are just releasing them at the same time.

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batiudrami8y ago

"All current iOS emoji will now work on my phone" was genuinely a highlight of the Nougat update for my Galaxy S7 .

yincrash8y ago

Android actually recently released a support library that apps can implement for this.

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/look-and-feel/...

cakedoggie8y ago

Mobile OS's aren't just for grumpy old people.

saghmOP8y ago

I'm younger than emojis themselves, to be perfectly honest, but I hardly think that an (incorrect) ad hominem makes my point any less valid.

supercoder8y ago

Emojis have no relevance to how technical someone is

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scott_karana8y ago

GP's point wasn't that emojis shouldn't be updated, but that it shouldn't require MAJOR/BREAKING VERSION updates (kernel, libraries, the works) to simply update a sprite font.

cakedoggie8y ago

Who is saying it does? They are just releasing them at the same time.

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