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Hmm, I wonder if that's going to be the next battle field for URLs: Facebook will try to register its logo as an emoji, and you'd just need to go to http://[f] to open their site.

There already is an emoji for apple (the fruit, not the company). Oh the horrors. I should start an emoji NIC!

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These would be less than convenient to type, but perhaps as we go more and more towards a non-typing web where a walled-garden start page and predefined links lead to the most popular sites with a click, these URLs will become fashionable. I think if so, this will herald the impending death of the human-read and typed URL in favor of start page links and search results.

> as we go more and more towards a non-typing web where a walled-garden start page and predefined links lead to the most popular sites with a click

Just a reminder that this is backwards, not forwards: this was my first experience of the Internet, through AOL, and I imagine I'm not the only one.

There are more mobile users than there are desktop users, and for them it's just the same to type.

How is switch to emoji input -> press search box -> start typing apple -> press apple symbol and so on “just the same” as app<CR>?

You don't have to search. Just hit the apple emoji. If you use it frequently, it'll probably be on the front. If not, it takes two seconds to hit the category it's in and then press it.

Because apple happens to start with an a. Ok fine, specifically for apple.com it's almost the same. But that's not really the point I was arguing.

There is already an emoji for the company:  (only works on iStuff)

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