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- Emojis are cringe.
- I also love them — in text chains, where you can accomplish a lot with a single character.
- Which is why Google adding emojis to Gmail this year is a huge deal — for me. But you should start using them, too.
I love emojis.

The European Commission says Apple violated the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) over its App Store policies. This violation could end up costing the iPhone maker billions.

Rich communication services (RCS) is already a big deal on Android phones with more than a billion users. Those numbers might be going up by the fall, as Google claims Apple will be joining the RCS party.

The green bubble stigma faced by Android users who send messages to their friends with iPhones is real—even the U.S. government acknowledges it.
