Google announced last week that Android emoji would be getting a complete revamp with the next version of Android, Android O.
As my colleague Stan wrote after the announcement, the redesign was long overdue. Android users have long had objectively worse emoji than their iOS counterparts.
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For example, just look at this evolution of iOS crying emoji vs. Android crying emoji:
Clean, beautiful, obviously sad emoji
Image: emojipedia
A mess of shape and color that finally result in an overdramatic crying emoji
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