Other corporations are finding ways to incorporate Emojis into their businesses because they find that using Emojis brings more user interaction. Apple marked July 17th as World Emoji Day and released final versions of new Emojis for iOS 11 that comes out fall of 2017. As of May 2017, there is over 2,000 official Emojis in the Unicode Standard. This is important in relaying the correct emotion in a conversation when one person uses an Apple phone and another uses a Google phone. It is because of the Standardized Unicode that the same meaning graphic shows up for one platform as another, even if they vary some graphically. There has been debate on some Emojis that were not clear enough, but most popular platforms are always updating and pleasing their customers. Although Emojis can vary in style on each platform, they portray the same meaning. As well as messaging apps like Apple´s Whatsapp or Google’s Hangouts. It wasn´t until 2010, that Emojis were introduced to other mobile platforms, such as Apple and Google. Shigetaka Kurita did not realize how much this idea would take off, as Emojis are now used globally. Soon after it was released, other mobile carriers in Japan were creating their own Emoji designs as well. He turned to Chinese characters and manga for inspiration to create the Emojis. He realized that symbols were an important part of mobile communication for young users and wanted to implement them into his own mobile internet system. Shigetaka Kurita noticed the outcry it caused when Pocket Bell dropped this heart symbol to become more business oriented. A heart symbol was created and used on this device. Previous to the mobile phone, Japan used Pagers called Pocket bells that were very popular among teenagers. Shigetaka Kurita created the mobile phone Emoji as a solution to a problem he noticed. With this system he created the first 176 Emoji designs for the Japanese mobile carriers. Meanwhile in Japan, Shigetaka Kurita released the i-mode, the world´s first major mobile internet system. Nicolas Loufrani and his father Franklin Loufrani, created an online emoticon dictionary in 1997, which was registered with the United States Copyright Office.
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15 years later, Nicolas Loufrani, the French president of Smiley Company trademarked the smiley face and promoted the emoticon by using it to indicate good news in the newspaper. Emoticons were a huge improvement in text based communication and it only took a matter of months before, this text based solution, spread to other schools. Fahlman became aware of this issue and created a solution by creating the Emoticon. This was because an electronic text lacks language or voice cues that are used to convey emotion. Having no way to distinguish sarcasm through electronic text caused frustration and miscommunication between members. Scott Fahlman of France presented the first digital appearance of the emoticon in 1982 to distinguish between humorous and serious posts between faculty members.