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Apple Reintroduces Butt-Like Peach Emoji in iOS 10.2 Beta 3 Following User Complaints
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Does that mean that if we complain enough maybe they'll bring back the headphone jack
I think whatever they do, an image of a peach will either;
a) Look like a butt to some people
b) Not look like a peach to anyone
This is because peaches are inherently butt-like to some people. Which is why the comparison was ever made in the first place. People are different and have different bodies, and so if you change the image to look less 'butt-like' it probably will be for some people, but more so for others, depending on one's perception and experience of what human posteriors look like.
Using an image of only a slice of peach is probably the only real solution. Well just that or, ya know, not minding it looks like a bit like a butt to some people...
This does all make me think how interestingly different (shorter? more humorous?) Apple's history might have been if they had called the company 'Peach' instead though.
Anyway, I guess if one were so inclined you could just send your own image of a Peach (or ... whatever) to people anyway.
a) Look like a butt to some people
b) Not look like a peach to anyone
This is because peaches are inherently butt-like to some people. Which is why the comparison was ever made in the first place. People are different and have different bodies, and so if you change the image to look less 'butt-like' it probably will be for some people, but more so for others, depending on one's perception and experience of what human posteriors look like.
Using an image of only a slice of peach is probably the only real solution. Well just that or, ya know, not minding it looks like a bit like a butt to some people...
This does all make me think how interestingly different (shorter? more humorous?) Apple's history might have been if they had called the company 'Peach' instead though.
Anyway, I guess if one were so inclined you could just send your own image of a Peach (or ... whatever) to people anyway.
What are they supposed to say? Anal covering? They aren't going to use the word 90% of people are thinking.
So Apple listens to stupid complaints about emojis, but doesn't listen to anyone who complains about the lack of desktop Mac upgrades?! (Specifically the Mac Pro). Where are Apple's priorities?!?!
Maybe if more people would kick up a stink they'd restore the baffling removal of iTunes features like ability to delete tracks from a smart playlist or context-menu for conversions?
Seems like it's an assumption that someone really listened to something in all of this, could have just been some changes that were being made throughout betas, and nothing more.
That aside, as if tweaking an emoji is even remotely similar to creating a fully updated production line of desktop hardware. Apples vs. oranges (or in this case peaches) doesn't really even quite cover that.
This is actually a macrumors article... didn't believe it when I saw it on twitter. The macrumor staff are some savages!!!
Funny how something inconsequential as this is attempted to be stretched out so much to make some sort of completely unrelated commentary on humanity or US somehow.
It's just interesting that this is what so many of us seem to spend their time getting worked up about. Another human at Apple had to read and consider it, they had to decide whether to roll back or modify the new icon to look more like a butt, then somebody had to do the work, etc. Then it gets packaged up and beamed to all corners of the planet - via satellites in space, or via transcontinental undersea cables, requiring electricity...
To the rest of creation, we are like superheroes. We have all of these amazing powers and abilities, and we use them to cause a fuss to make the peach icon look more like a butt.
Plenty of all kinds of mundane and essentially meaningless things that pretty much many living organisms have involved themselves in many times if not even on repeated daily basis throughout existence essentially. Ultimately it's kind of neither here nor there, aside from philosophical exercises basically.
