Apple Thoughts: Get Your Emoji While You Can!

"Apple has issued a store-wide take-down order to all App Store products that offer Emoji support, Ars has learned. Emoji icons are part of the device's Japanese language support and not meant for general use around the world. Emoji is disabled by default and hidden on all phones outside of Japan."

I still don't understand why they won't allow this "officially" on the iPhone. I have had since this article appeared here at Apple Thoughts and my family has had a great time sending various icons back and forth. From what I understand, Apple is having all the apps that allow the emoji removed, but if you already have it, it will continue to work. That is, I guess, until the next iPhone update removes it.