It seemed later in the week that this got turned around: <a href="https://twitter.com/Sam0711er/status/961312320537415681" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/Sam0711er/status/961312320537415681</a>
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.<p>And if they're so invested in using emojis as a "key marketing strategy", why didn't they pay an artist to create emojis for their own use?
> <i>Means if your app displays emoji anywhere without a user having it typed in, it’s illegal and will be rejected.</i><p>How does that work in a chat app, when the remote user has typed that in on their device?
What's the rationale behind this?
Also, can someone explain me why Slack forces Google-themed emojis? I personally like the Windows design with black stroke
>We’ll therefore have to remove all emojis from @getBittracker and resubmit a new version. This will remove the “young” feeling in the app and basically destroys one of our key marketing strategies.<p>good.