I’m just mad that they removed the pistol emoji. How else am I supposed to communicate bringing the heat?
You can't bring the heat with a water gun?
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Emojis are more important to the global market beyond the US and Apple is responding to that. A16Z podcast did a show on this a few weeks ago
The average person isn’t going to update their iPhones for tech mumbo-jumbo like “deep fusion”, but when they see their friends using emojis they‘re missing, they’re incentivized to update.
Emojis are used as a tool to encourage general public to update to latest software/receive critical security updates.