So I guess I should have figured, because we live in such a technologically consumed point in history that the use of emojis might someday completely wipe out the use of talking with words. I’m being a little exaggerated here but you can’t deny that emojis are widely used among people with Smartphones; that’s a lot of people in the world. According to an article by Dazeinfo.com from January 2014, “2 Billion Smartphone Users By 2015: 83% of Internet Usage From Mobiles [Study],” with the increase of the user-threshold in developing countries such as Asian Pacific, Middle East, and Africa, there number of mobile user is said to reach 4.5 billion soon.
“A report from market research firm eMarketer expects the growing market in emerging countries to boost the market. ‘The global Smartphone audience surpassed the 1 billion mark in 2012 and will total 1.75 billion in 2014. eMarketer expects smartphone adoption to continue on a fast-paced trajectory through 2017,’
-eMarketer
The report titled Smartphone Users Worldwide 2012 – 2017 from eMarketer, further expects that around two-fifth of all mobile phones i.e. around one fourth of the world’s population used a Smartphone at least monthly this year.”
http://dazeinfo.com/2014/01/23/smartphone-users-growth-mobile-internet-2014-2017/
Like I said, that’s a lot of people. If there is such a large basis of users it must be diverse if people all over the world are using this type of technology. But it’s not until now that we have access to more diverse emojis. I saw two Seventeen articles months ago about how Apple and Unicode are coming out with a more ethnically diverse emoji -keyboard. All I can say to that is, “FINALLY!”
I thought this topic was relevant because the other day I was scrolling through instagram and someone I was following posted a selfie and wrote “But these chocolately goodness emojis,” with a string of brown emoji symbols. In the comments, people go onto to explain that it’s from Apple and so apparently the new updates include this cool new feature. I’m not an iphone user but I’m really excited for all my diverse iphone user friends who can now express their emoji mood properly.
http://www.seventeen.com/celebrity/a25502/racially-diverse-emojis-coming-june-2015/
http://www.seventeen.com/life/news/a28824/new-apple-diverse-emojis/
“A report from market research firm eMarketer expects the growing market in emerging countries to boost the market. ‘The global Smartphone audience surpassed the 1 billion mark in 2012 and will total 1.75 billion in 2014. eMarketer expects smartphone adoption to continue on a fast-paced trajectory through 2017,’
-eMarketer
The report titled Smartphone Users Worldwide 2012 – 2017 from eMarketer, further expects that around two-fifth of all mobile phones i.e. around one fourth of the world’s population used a Smartphone at least monthly this year.”
http://dazeinfo.com/2014/01/23/smartphone-users-growth-mobile-internet-2014-2017/
Like I said, that’s a lot of people. If there is such a large basis of users it must be diverse if people all over the world are using this type of technology. But it’s not until now that we have access to more diverse emojis. I saw two Seventeen articles months ago about how Apple and Unicode are coming out with a more ethnically diverse emoji -keyboard. All I can say to that is, “FINALLY!”
I thought this topic was relevant because the other day I was scrolling through instagram and someone I was following posted a selfie and wrote “But these chocolately goodness emojis,” with a string of brown emoji symbols. In the comments, people go onto to explain that it’s from Apple and so apparently the new updates include this cool new feature. I’m not an iphone user but I’m really excited for all my diverse iphone user friends who can now express their emoji mood properly.
http://www.seventeen.com/celebrity/a25502/racially-diverse-emojis-coming-june-2015/
http://www.seventeen.com/life/news/a28824/new-apple-diverse-emojis/