Apple won't approve apps that use emojis that aren't provided by the keyboard

Post by TheCoelacanth » Wed, Feb 14, 2018, 4:08 PM UTC

yoz-y wrote: post #39

TheCoelacanth wrote: post #33

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> Apple's Emoji designs are copyrighted to Apple. They aren't copying the emoji, though, except in the extremely pedantic sense that some transient copies get created in the process of the device displaying the fonts that it shipped with, but that is obvious fair use even under the most restrictive interpretation of fair use. Copyright has no bearing on this. > If people started using Apple's logos on the App's UI, t…

> Pretty much every company uses some combination of characters as a key marketing strategy (the company or product name). Do they need to create their own font to be able to display their name? No, but they do have to use a font with a license that permits you to do so. You can't just type your company name in Helvetica and go with it, Linotype will want to have a fee. (often a one-time non-recurring payment)

Post by earenndil » Wed, Feb 14, 2018, 10:30 PM UTC

gregknicholson wrote: post #37

trevyn wrote: post #25

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> Apple thinks of Unicode as their personal playground Apple has thought of Earth as their personal playground for a long time; arrogance runs deep in their company culture. Steve could get away with it because he was arrogant and right most of the time. Today, ancient & obsolete arrogance is Apple’s biggest flaw, and is causing them to drift more and more out of touch with reality.

Apple seems to avoid interoperability wherever they think they can get away with it. Even in really weird ways, like: to install any software on your Apple phone you had to use Apple's music player . (Is that right? I never owned one, and it sounds daft, but plausible for Apple.) Text and video messaging was low-hanging fruit, thanks to XMPP etc not taking off. With that network effect in place, it's a short leap tow…

Post by princekolt » Tue, Feb 20, 2018, 9:44 PM UTC

pavlov wrote: post #18

princekolt wrote: post #9

Apple's Emoji designs are copyrighted to Apple. The unicode standard only defines character codes, and what they should "generally" look like (hell, Unicode's own example designs are monochrome line drawings). So this makes complete sense. If people started using Apple's logos on the App's UI, they would respond in exactly the same way. And if they're so invested in using emojis as a "key marketing strategy", why did…

IMO you’ve been unfairly downvoted, as you’re correct that the emoji illustrations indeed are owned by Apple. The fault lies with the Unicode consortium for opening this can of worms. The standard should have been reserved for outline letter forms only. Adding a set of full-color illustrations that expands every year was madness. It’s especially bad for embedded devices that need to render text. It used to be that yo…