Apple Cracks Down on Emoji Apps
Fri, Feb 27th, 2009 |
If you haven't gotten onboard with emoji, don't worry--neither have I. The little emoticons are a staple of text conversations in Japan, and Apple added support for them in version 2.2 of the iPhone software--but only for those using Japanese input methods.
Of course, it wasn't long before a few clever folks figured out how users in other places could take advantage of them too...
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