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[...] The Emojipedia website argued that the symbol could still appear as a lifelike gun in messages sent to non-iOS users. Apple made the change in the wake of a series of shootings in the US.
However, Microsoft announced this week that its toy gun symbol would be redesigned as a more realistic-looking firearm. The emoji character system allows companies to use slightly different designs of the same basic objects, signs or expressions.
"The thing is, emojis already look different on different platforms and it does cause confusion," Jeremy Burge, editor of Emojipedia, told the BBC. "When we're dealing with guns and toys as a comparison, that's a whole new level of problems that we have there."
[...] "Apple has the most prominent emoji set that people use," said Mr Burge. "I think it has a high responsibility to be a bit cautious."
There was further criticism from web users, but a columnist in the Guardian praised the move as a statement on gun control.
"It's a smart, small part in the battle - which we're presently losing - to keep Americans safe," wrote Jean Hannah Edelstein. There have been calls previously - including from a campaign called Disarm the iPhone - to remove the handgun icon from iOS devices.
[...] Both Apple and Microsoft have said they are working with the Unicode Consortium - the body that maintains lists of emojis across different platforms.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday August 07 2016, @07:39AM
Consider the world as a single system, since it already is.
The system has pulled a systemd and rendered society an interdependent mess, so that population is under control. You want to secede? good luck with starving into irrelevancy, in a way that makes north korea look a tourist resort. Now be good and obey your new transnational directives.
It is the same system who pushed for communism, fascism, the '68, mind you. First they use ideals to destroy now they do not need any ideal to rebuild. Since we are under control, we should now accept the system and behave like good sheeple. Atomized families and of course new tech. "Your son, which you two insisted on having with dangerous natural means which put your health at risk, displays terrorist character traits. Under the new directives we have edited them out, whose account can we charge?"
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