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Apple Continues to Tweak Emojis in Latest iOS 8.3 Beta

Meanwhile, in Cupertino...

Design Lead: "Dammit Alex, why does the black guy have green eyes? Are you racist or something?! Do you have any idea what you can do to this company?! Seriously, how many black guys do you see running around with green eyes?!"

Designer: "Sir?"

Design Lead: "What?!"

Designer: "what you just said was racist"

Design Lead: ...

Design Lead: "F&@K!"
 
rohitp said:
Great! Now I have to worry about which skin tone I send out so as to NOT be offensive to the recipient. :roll eyes:


Lol. Actually if any recipient/client doesn't like a default emoji, they can shove it. :eek:
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so...you just alienated more than 80% of the world.

Good luck with that :)
 
iAshley said:
These emoticons are moving away from a tool to help show emotion or meaning in text and becoming avatars. If thats the case we should be able to choose hair colour, hair styles, eye colour and facial hair too. Why is it only skin colour that can be changed.

For the record I don't want an avatar, I want a simple way to convey meaning and emotion.
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You should just be able to take a picture of yourself in all the different emotions and the OS makes a cartoon of it. Done.
 
chriscrk said:
Don't understand why people complain about this. It's not as if the people fixing bugs on iOS or OS X are the same people doing the emojis, lol. It's not "taking away time" from fixing other things.

And yeah, it was certainly no one's intention to be racist by only having white emoji's, but I'd love to see how every white person would feel if they only black faces to represent something.
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There were never white emojis before. Those were yellow, an indeterminate/fictional race and thus neutrally applicable to everyone. It is only now by introducing explicit races/ethnicities that the emojis can be twisted to be racist.
 
Apple Continues to Tweak Emojis in Latest iOS 8.3 Beta

This is ridiculous, wish they had kept it alone.
 
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Just take the emojis away so people will stop being so damn childish over this. Talk about complete ignorance and stupidity!
 
petsounds said:
No. Everyone seems to continue under the misunderstanding that Apple came up with these. They didn't. Emoji is defined by the Unicode Consortium, an international standards body. These new 'diversity' emoji are part of the last Unicode update. Apple is just the first one to implement them.
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Thank you for reiterating this. People on this forum are so miserable.
 
petsounds said:
No. Everyone seems to continue under the misunderstanding that Apple came up with these. They didn't. Emoji is defined by the Unicode Consortium, an international standards body. These new 'diversity' emoji are part of the last Unicode update. Apple is just the first one to implement them.
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Oh man...we're going to have to go to UC3 (three bytes per character) pretty soon if they keep this up. :)

Thanks!
 
Well at least they have their priorities straight...I miss 2010 Apple.
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petsounds said:
No. Everyone seems to continue under the misunderstanding that Apple came up with these. They didn't. Emoji is defined by the Unicode Consortium, an international standards body. These new 'diversity' emoji are part of the last Unicode update. Apple is just the first one to implement them.
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IIRC Apple did have a direct hand in influencing this ******** from the onset.
 
Avenged110 said:
IIRC Apple did have a direct hand in influencing this ******** from the onset.
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I believe they are a member of the Unicode Consortium, so that is not surprising. It's also not surprising that they would consider these new choices a positive thing. But ultimately the Consortium had to approve these as a group.
 
redscull said:
There were never white emojis before. Those were yellow, an indeterminate/fictional race and thus neutrally applicable to everyone. It is only now by introducing explicit races/ethnicities that the emojis can be twisted to be racist.
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You have no clue what you're talking about. The emoji in question are white, pale faced European looking people. On the iPhone they start on the 3rd page of emoji. Those are the people emoji and (except for 2 I think) they are all white not yellow which is strange because that only represents 20% of the population of the world.

You seem to be referring to the yellow emoji which are an entirely different thing and not what the skin tone modifiers are for.
 
doelcm82 said:
If there is a pothole in front of your driveway, it is not trivial to you. But there are more important things to do than fix your pothole, and there always will be. If you have to wait for everything that is more important to be fixed before they get to your pothole, then your pothole will never be fixed. While you're waiting, more important problems will come up, and they will take priority over your relatively trivial problem.

If you're lucky, your pothole ends up on a work list and eventually it comes up, and someone comes and fixes your pothole. It will annoy some people to see your pothole being fixed, when there are bigger problems to address.
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Yep...and I drive around the potholes.
I understand there are plenty more important issues to deal with.

until the hole is larger or deeper and becomes a safety hazard, then more important issues should be a priority.

I get your point. not trying to be a jerk. we have potholes on our road/street. the HOA knows this and has more important issues at hand so I don't need to bother them.

I still stand by my initial thoughts that emojis are not an important part of the function of the phone or OS. we may have differing opinions. I understand that too. I've heard your point but just don't agree.
 
Oh thank God! I need diversity so badly in my life. When I look at these new, improved and diverse emojis I will feel that a wholeness that had been lacking in my soul had been filled.

Some days, I think I would prefer to go without eating or being comfortable, than to miss out on the incredible enrichment engendered by diversity!

In fact, I believe international aid shouldn't be spent on food and water and medicine, but on making those countries more diverse; that would literally make my heart melt <3.

newagemac said:
Those are the people emoji and (except for 2 I think) they are all white not yellow which is strange because that only represents 20% of the population of the world.
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White people are only 20% of the world?! Oh no, we should be giving them assistance and all the myriad benefits that come from being a minority!
 
CarlosQG said:
Don't take the fun out of emojis, please :(

And add a taco and dumbell emoji while you're at it.
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I'm 1/16 Mexican, and I don't appreciate that correlation you're making.

:eek: :mad: ;)

(just to be sure... I am joking about everything after the comma in my response.)

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newagemac said:
You have no clue what you're talking about. The emoji in question are white, pale faced European looking people. On the iPhone they start on the 3rd page of emoji. Those are the people emoji and (except for 2 I think) they are all white not yellow which is strange because that only represents 20% of the population of the world.

You seem to be referring to the yellow emoji which are an entirely different thing and not what the skin tone modifiers are for.
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If I am white, and I use an emoji that is not my race, am I racist?

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doelcm82 said:
That will come as a minor feature of OS X 10.16.4. The major feature will be support for the Apple Car.

Until then, use third party emoji apps.
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What they should really do is use the camera to determine your skin tone and present the order of the emojis based on your apparent skin tone.
 
theBostonian said:
In fact, I believe international aid shouldn't be spent on food and water and medicine, but on making those countries more diverse; that would literally make my heart melt <3.
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I prefer Apple's approach. It hasn't devoted all of its resources towards this emoji diversification project. Really, only a tiny percentage. Simultaneously, it's working on new products like the Apple Watch and potential products like the Apple car. And also improvements to its existing product lines and software. And acquiring companies that can improve its services.

Hopefully we never get to a place where 100% of resources can only be spent on one area at a time!

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JeffyTheQuik said:
What they should really do is use the camera to determine your skin tone and present the order of the emojis based on your apparent skin tone.
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That's not a bad idea. So long your apparent skin tone doesn't override a default you have set explicitly in preferences, or implicitly by regularly choosing a different skin tone.
 
Dang people like to complain about anything. This is a nice feature for people who don't happen to be white to use emojis to better match themselves or the people they are messaging. If you don't like it, don't use it. It's that simple. PS it's not like Apple is diverting all of its engineers to solely working on this project like this forum would have you believe.
 
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