>Apple’s change is ill considered because it breaks the conceptual compatibility that Unicode is meant to establish.. News flash: ALREADY BORKED (ref: http://m

>Apple’s change is ill considered because it breaks the conceptual compatibility that Unicode is meant to establish.. News flash: ALREADY BORKED (ref: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/what-the-emoji-youre-sending-actually-look-like-to-your-friends http://motherboard.vice.com/read/what-the-emoji-youre-sendin...) Totally agree that this distracts from the real issue, and there are many here. Stop distracting folks Apple/Microsoft and chip away at the harder stuff!