Why emoji are different in iOS and Android

Imagine a world in which we communicate without emojis could be one of the most difficult tasks today # 39; hui. These faces have become such an important part of communication that we virtually use one to accompany any message we send.

The first emojis were created in 1999 by the Japanese designer Shigetaka Kurita for the NTT DoCoMo platform; but considering the popularity of these drawings, several companies began to copy Kurita's idea.

The first emojis created by Kurita. (MoMA)

That is only 2007 that someone decided to order and that the Consortium Unicode was created. This is responsible for setting rules for the creation of more than two thousand 500 emojis that currently exist.

Basically, the function of this organization is to approve the proposals of emoji companies for then develop them and pass the standard that they must follow in designing them .

Companies have the freedom to design them as they wish, that is why it is normal that the emojis of Android Samsung iOS and social networks are different.

Many believe that the emojis iOS are the official ones, and even WhatsApp copied them so that all users receive exactly the same pattern. But it is not like that.

The emojis created by Android and Samsung are also official because they follow the rules of Unicode although they are less visually appealing.

Given the criticism of having very different emojis, Samsung redesigned all of its illustrations to make them similar to those of other companies.

In the end, it seems that everyone has tried that the drawings of their emojis are similar so that the sense of the face can not vary between platforms and we let's all understand what the other person meant with emojis.

RL