Tencent Technology News July 3, "Forbes" website today published an article entitled Parmy Olson (Parmy Olson) article. The article pointed out that with the advent of social applications Emoji, the traditional exchange of voice or text will face the impact. Olsen's article is as follows.
In any case, the picture is about to become a more important part of people's communication. As the communication environment evolves, more and more smartphone users may simply send more emoticons or pictures with just a finger, which may be as traditional as text messages.
Emoticons can enrich our chat, and the forthcoming Emojli app is an iOS social app that can only be emoji emoji chatted. This application does not have text and images, the user's information is reflected in the emoji expression, and even usernames are emoticons. Emojli will land on the iOS platform in late July or early August, landing on other operating systems one after another.
Matt Gray and Tom Scott, both founders of Emojli, agree that with the launch of the Emojli app, the time has come to cancel the text message. In the Emojli application environment, users will fully use those tiny cartoon style icons to communicate and use these icons to express their opinions or to talk about some interesting things in the conversation.
So far, more than 10,000 users have started to sign up for Emojli applications, and a lot of news has shown that this social application will be launched to the iOS platform soon. In fact, Gray and Scott themselves do not overemphasize themselves and their products, but smilies and digital tags are still going to talk about more and more topics in the mobile messaging space.
In the Asian market, emoticon chat contains huge potential, the development trend is also more and more obvious. In the Asian market, smartphone users can fully use these emoticons and number tags to chat. The new apps from Gray and Scott may be an important tool for training smartphones in other parts of Asia to chat using emoticons.
With the development of this market, as long as a certain scale is reached, the use of emoticons for chatting is profitable. In fact, a large number of digital label distributors have signed revenue sharing agreements with some of the big brands. Relevant data show that in 2013, LINE, a Japanese messaging application provider, sold digital tags valued at $ 70 million.
So far, the creators of Emojli need only successfully promote their apps. The following is the founder of these questions on the answer.
Q: What are your professional background or programming background?
A: Matthew is a professional radio engineer working on the radio. Tom is mainly engaged in network related work.
Q: Why do you create social networks and apps that can only chat with emoji, where do you get creative inspiration?
A: It comes from two stories. One is the funny social network Yo; the other is the new emoji for the Unicode consortium. Both of us have come to the same idea. We are all happy to create such an application.
Q: Do you allow the Emojli network to work with other messaging services as an extension of these services? Still only willing to use alone?
A: We have not considered these issues so far, but we currently only launch this app separately.
Q: Have you started using or testing this service yourself? How to use the effect?
A: This application is still under development, so we have not yet entered a complete test phase. (Yue Tong)