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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday August 02 2016, @11:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the this-might-trigger-me dept.

Business Insider is reporting that Apple is changing its implementation of the "pistol" emoji (🔫 \U0001F52B; "🔫") from a revolver to a toy water gun. According to Apple's announcement, the change will take effect with the release of iOS 10 this fall. Apple's announcement didn't explicitly mention the change or its rationale but the change is, predictably, ruffling some feathers.


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  • (Score: 2) by mendax on Wednesday August 03 2016, @01:27AM

    by mendax (2840) on Wednesday August 03 2016, @01:27AM (#383446)

    <sarcasm>Apple is dead wrong with this decision (perhaps that's a pun). Instead of changing it to a water pistol, they should have changed it to a bazooka or a panzerfaust, the latter being more appropriate as it more closely resembles an erect penis. If you're going to going to introduce weapons into a conversation, you ought to mean it. (And that could also be considered sort of a pun.)
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