I want because we need it!
No one needs any emojis. We got along just fine without them for decades.
Apple also has no say in what emojis get added to the set. Only the Unicode Consortium makes those decisions.
Kurt Lang wrote:
No one needs any emojis. We got along just fine without them for decades.
Smileys date back at least as far as September 19, 1982 – and a bboard message posted by Dr. Scott Fahlman in which he proposed the use of the :-) joke marker.
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19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-)
From: Scott E Fahlman <Fahlman at Cmu-20c>
I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:
:-)
Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark
things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use
:-(
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On his "Smiley Lore" page, Dr. Fahlman wrote "Within a few months, we started seeing the lists with dozens of “smilies”: open-mouthed surprise, person wearing glasses, Abraham Lincoln, Santa Claus, the pope, and so on. Producing such clever compilations has become a serious hobby for some people. But only my two original smilies, plus the “winky” ;-) and the “noseless” variants seem to be in common use for actual communication. It’s interesting to note that Microsoft and AOL now intercept these character strings and turn them into little pictures. Personally, I think this destroys the whimsical element of the original."
This was long before Unicode and emoji. Unicode came out in 1991. Wired says "The first emoji were created in 1999 by Japanese artist Shigetaka Kurita" – and lists 2010 as the year that Unicode officially embraced emoji.
Still not a need. A "need" is something you can't do without to achieve a purpose.
We've done just fine with our writings without the use of emoticons or emojis for thousands of years.
Not that I don't use them myself. It's simply incorrect to call any emoji a need. It isn't.
Servant of Cats wrote:
Kurt Lang wrote:
No one needs any emojis. We got along just fine without them for decades.
Smileys date back at least as far as September 19, 1982 – and a bboard message posted by Dr. Scott Fahlman in which he proposed the use of the :-) joke marker.
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19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-)
From: Scott E Fahlman <Fahlman at Cmu-20c>
I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:
:-)
I still prefer those. They are much easier to use when I'm at my computer as they're just regular typing using the regular keyboard.
Here is the emoji, not sure why apple does not have it. 🤭
😱 This seems to fit what you're requesting and is certainly included in the emojis provided.
Why doesn't Apple have emoji with people covering their faces with their hands and blushing because they're embarrassed?
Because it would be embarrassing.
If it doesn’t exist and Apple doesn’t have it, how would we be able to see it?
Why doesn't Apple have emoji with people covering their faces with their hands and blushing because they're embarrassed?
