> Apple’s change is ill considered because it breaks the conceptual compatibility that Unicode is meant to establish. Anyone with an iPhone ought to be able to send a message to someone with another company’s products — like Google or Microsoft or Samsung — and have what’s delivered communicate the same idea as what’s sent.

If Apple is guilty of causing miscommunications, then so are the other platform vendors:

http://indy100.independent.co.uk/article/your-favourite-emoj...

So far, variance from the unicode standard is pretty widespread. The gun is not the first, probably not the worst.