From: Christopher Fynn (cfynn@gmx.net)
Date: Sun Jan 11 2009 - 00:50:17 CST
Doug Ewell wrote:
...
> Go back and look at the survey again. 72% of users who said they were
> dissatisfied with their carrier's emoji said they wanted a wider
> variety. You don't think the vendors are going to notice that and start
> playing leapfrog with each other to provide ever wider repertoires?
People are already betting on this happening.
Last night there was a news clip on BBC World showing someone
demonstrating MS Windows 7 (beta) at Las Vegas. A few nice new
navigation and other features were demonstrated by the young woman from
Microsoft ~ the final feature demonstrated, which she claimed was her
favourite, was the ability to easily add all kinds of little animated
graphics (looking very much like emoji) to her Live Messenger chat and
have the colour and display of her message change in response to the
feeling represented by the included emoji. Now if the marketing
department of a major company like Microsoft has decided that animated
graphics/emoji and related features are one of the main selling points
for the latest version of their flagship software then they have already
in effect bet huge sums of money on these things proliferating like
wildfire.
- Chris
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