Yesterday, Apple announced the addition of more gender diverse emoji in iOS 10. One emoji in particular, the handgun, got a lot of press attention when it was replaced by a water pistol.
Back in June, this radar (Apple’s internal bug-tracking system) was filed:
The current “pistol” emoji is a realistically rendered lethal weapon. As the spec doesn’t require it to be this way, Apple would be doing a service to society by changing this image to a plastic toy gun, such as a bright pink or green water squirter.
Solid suggestion, glad for the change.
F’n lame. Some stupid symbolic gesture that won’t change a thing, but gives people like Dave Mark and John Gruber their feel good social virtue points as they let us all know they are correct thinking.
That’s the very radar, huh?
((citation needed))
“… but gives people like Dave Mark and John Gruber their feel good social virtue points as they let us all know they are correct thinking.” Wow, man. Why do you have so much pent up anger against people who blog about things they like? I agree with “freediverx” in that this might be misguided, but dude, seriously, get a grip.
What a bunch of spineless cowards. Maybe the pistol emoji is a reminder to some of the thousands who gave their lives defending this country, but I can tell you that an emoji of a intimate object is not the cause of any deaths and is nothing to get worked up about. This PC nonsense is out of control and Apple/Google feeds right into it.
Calling bullshit on virtual signaling and political correctness isn’t anger. It’s getting a grip on reality.
ffs. you mean “virtue signaling”
“I’m a PC.”
“I’m a Mac, and I’m even more PC.”
Speaking of signaling.
Yep, I’m starting a new trend: vice signaling. It sends the message that I’m too honest with myself to fall for the PC bullshit.
But Apple doesn’t seem to have problems with knives, swords, bombs and the worst danger of all, cigarettes.
There are emojis of alcoholic beverages and other emojis of cars. I could put these next to each other, which would be an endorsement of drunk driving. Doesn’t Apple know that drunk driving leads to deaths? I’m filing a radar to have Apple fix this outrage!
Politics over substance. Bad choice.
Exactly. Tens or hundreds of thousands of lives are saved every year with guns.
Bonus: You get to be as rude as you wish without worrying about what “too honest with myself” actually sounds like.
Oh, the anger! If you want to throw a picture of a weapon into every one of your no-doubt brilliant text messages, you still can.
Hey, I can’t let you and the other SJWs have a monopoly on rudeness masquerading as something else!
“… ethics in game journalism.”
Keep those discourse standards high, jimothy.
Will do! You too, buddy!
I’m also going to file a radar for Apple to remove the male and female emojis. How dare they try to assign a gender identity to my emoji!