A ton of things happened at Google I/O, but somehow the biggest news from last week was never even mentioned on stage: the latest version of Android will kill the blob-style emoji and replace them with circular ones that are more consistent with those from iOS, Twitter, Facebook, Samsung, and more.
Many people, including some of us here at The Verge, said this was long overdue. But I say nay! To me, this is A Very Bad Move.
As I briefly said in last week’s episode of The Vergecast, I adore the blob emoji because they’re cute, unique, and show a lot of personality and expressiveness. While we can argue about the cons of Android fragmentation, one of the many reasons I like Android is because you actually have so many options to show...
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https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/25/15688528/google-blob-emoji-android-o-rip
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http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/05/googles-blob-emoji-are-great-and-no-one.html
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