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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: 5, Funny) by darkfeline on Wednesday August 03 2016, @04:27AM

    by darkfeline (1030) on Wednesday August 03 2016, @04:27AM (#383490) Homepage

    This is going to cause serious problems.

    Someone is going to put the "water gun" next to something like "having fun with kids!" and someone else will see it (correctly) as a pistol and report it to the police.

    Fun for everyone involved!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 03 2016, @07:15AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 03 2016, @07:15AM (#383519)

    Everyone except the staffer who answers the Unicode Consortium's hotline.