Apple's initial implementation was designed to operate with SoftBank's Emoji format, and predates unicode standardisation. Their version of this icon can be seen here http://image.slidesharecdn.com/iuc36emojifinal1-131204112121... and Apple's matches it pretty well. [Also note: this is where the Apple's smiley poop comes from too]
The main fault seems to be that the codepoints for those icons were explicitly mapped onto unicode's 'grinning face with smiling eyes', despite them not being representations of that.
The Unicode standard got 'grimacing face' a couple of years later, though, which better suits this expression. [Apple's version uses the same mouth as here, but with normal eyes]
I have a windows phone, and have regularly encountered this with my wife (who has an iPhone).
In particular :eggplant: doesn't have the same obvious meaning
My curiosity lead me to this chart of emoji on the different platforms here: http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html
This is why I stick to emoticons :)
Nice. It seems Twitter cribbed pretty strongly from Apple in their emoji, especially the facial expression ones.
It seems like Apple's emojis are badly designed, and that should probably have been the conclusion.
Apple's initial implementation was designed to operate with SoftBank's Emoji format, and predates unicode standardisation. Their version of this icon can be seen here http://image.slidesharecdn.com/iuc36emojifinal1-131204112121... and Apple's matches it pretty well. [Also note: this is where the Apple's smiley poop comes from too]
The main fault seems to be that the codepoints for those icons were explicitly mapped onto unicode's 'grinning face with smiling eyes', despite them not being representations of that.
The Unicode standard got 'grimacing face' a couple of years later, though, which better suits this expression. [Apple's version uses the same mouth as here, but with normal eyes]