Microsoft’s old “gun” emoji (left) and the new one (right)
Posted on 08/05/2016 12:59:25 AM PDT by Swordmaker
“Microsoft this week replaced a toy gun emoji with a real revolver in an apparent need to conform to universal emoji standards.,” Nick Statt reports for The Verge.
“The change, which arrived with the company’s Windows 10 Anniversary Update on Tuesday, is part of a larger emoji redesign project Microsoft embarked on months ago to refresh its library with new designs,” Statt reports. “‘It’s unclear why Microsoft felt the need to replace its old toy gun, which resembled a sci-fi space blaster, with a real firearm. It does, however, put the company at philosophical odds with Apple.”
“Both companies are part of the Unicode Consortium, the technical organization that oversees emoji standards so that they translate equitably across devices and mobile operating systems,” Statt reports. “Each company can tailor how its own emoji characters appear to users, and Microsoft decided it made more sense to use a real gun rather than a toy one.”
Microsoft’s old “gun” emoji (left) and the new one (right)
Current iOS handgun emoji (left) and Apple’s replacement, a green squirt gun (right)
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Microsoft is right. Apple is wrong.
Great, now we need a 🍸, a 🍸, a 🍸, and a couple of 🍺🍺, at the very least.
Which, after the acquiescent Tim Cook gets a letter from Alcoholics Anonymous, will read to the rest of the world:
Great, now we need a 🍭, a 🍭, a 🍭, and a couple of 🍼🍼, at the very least.Nothing, especially guns, should be improperly translated when sent from one system to another lest you get results like:
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Emoji’s are shorthand way of saying stuff. A single picture can replace whole sentences. Although, outside smilie emoji’s, I don’t know what most of it means.
There’s standards for emojis? Who knew?
It’s all part of a great effort to get us all back to Chinese pictograms and Egyptian Heiroglyphics. Great for counting urns of oil, not so much for pondering metaphysics.
As a little kid, for years I had thought that those handicapped access pictograms meant there was a toilet, as they were mostly on bathroom doors. It wasn’t until they wound up on parking spots that I realized my misunderstanding.
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Right.
Who needs to assimilate and learn English, when a dopey pictogram or emoji will suffice for all phases of existence in the USA???
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When did MS Marketing get a wake-up call? Good one! LOL!!!
The language is changing too fast. I get what an emoticon is, but the emoji thing is new to me.
I’ve seen the term here and there, but thought it was some sort of pictogram fad.
That doesn't answer my question, but thanks for the non sequitur reply anyway.
It seems that the Japanese really went crazy for emoticons and expanded the number and then later the quality of the emoticons. The Japanese word for emoticons is emojis. That coined word has been adopted for the entire set and use of emoticons. An international organization that defines the codes and accepts new designs was established under that name.
Don't worry about not having "read" it. Aside from the cover and cover page, the rest of the book is 100% in Emojis. ;^)
I wonder if they have an emoji for young millenials? Clint Eastwood says they’re the pussy generation. As in pusillanimous: lacking courage and resolution : marked by contemptible timidity. The emoji for liberal democrats would be the flip side of that, representing a toxic spew.
Unreal. Now we need an international organization to regulate emoticons?
I've lived too long .. LOL
I’ve got a new Windows development. When I go to Windows Media player and click on a song Groove Music pops up to play it. It seems to be taking over. Anybody else having this problem?
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