As emojis increase in utility/importance in every day language, the difference between Apple's design, and Android, Gmail, Twitter, etc. are also quite confusing (i.e. we don't use certain emojis in the Product Hunt Digest because it will look different for everyone) and texting people on Android is a whole different story... 😅
Not to make this a Android v…See more
@nivo0o0 Followup @jeremyburge What is your favorite emoji design across all devices and platforms? Least favorite? Personally I'm a fan of Twitter and Facebook Messenger's. I can't stand Android's though.
@nivo0o0 The main thing holding back everyone using Apple emojis could be the potential legality of it all.
While many of us tend to think of emojis like they are an open standard, the images in each font still belong to their respective vendors: Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc.
What’s unclear is whether apps like WhatsApp (which uses Apple emoji images embe…See more
@tristanisham@nivo0o0 I'm most familiar with iOS, so to me those feel like what I want to be sending. It's not without its issues, though. We all give Samsung a hard time, but their animals are super cute http://emojipedia.org/samsung/
Runner up: Messenger has a beautiful set, but a little hard to see what's going on at small sizes 🔍
