Why are Samsung's emojis different from everyone else?

From a cookie that's definitely not a cookie to a yellow flag when everyone else sees red, sending emojis is fraught enough without manufacturers changing things

It's a tricky life, being an emoji designer. Unicode, the consortium that controls the key standard used to digitally encode writing, picks which emojis need to be included, but until recently offered little guidance beyond a name and a black and white illustration.

Then there's the problem that every individual operating system needs to design its own emoji because the little glyphs are copyrighted, so it won't do to simply use the same ones as your competitor.