Samsung’s Bizarre Emojis

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40 points·coldtea··6 comments

I'm surprised the article doesn't mention my favorite, the simple Cookie:

Everyone decided cookies are probably chocolate chip cookies, except Samsung, who apparently got confused during the process...

Is there a Korean cultural bias in the choice? The iOS emojis (I'm an iOS user so I"m speaking generally, and not from this article) remind me very closely to the DoCoMo emoji I had in Japan in the 1990s.

Entirely possible. Emojipedia has previously noted that the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 was missing the emoji for "Map of Japan", "Crossed Flags" (which is typically depicted as a pair of Japanese flags), and "Chart Increasing With Yen".

http://blog.emojipedia.org/samsung-puts-japan-back-on-the-ma...

Why is there an annoying "open in app" button covering the content? it's just text and pictures, my web browser handles that just fine. If I want to open it in an app, I can open it in pocket.

It's hosted on Medium and that's the app it's talking about. I still don't know why anyone would do that though.

I was confused by this a while back on the Slack engineering blog - "why would I want to open this in Slack??"

Those are terrible. The grimace one wasn't terrible; so I thought, "hmm, this is likely the worst of what is a totally trivial problem". The problem is trivial but it went down hill quality wise. I would say honestly, a new user or user of any platform other than Samsung is going to have some awkward and confusing exchanges.

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