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OS X 10.10.3 and iOS 8.3 Beta 2 Updates Introduce New Emoji, Skin Tone Modifiers

xionxiox said:
Um...the default emojis are yellow or white. that's not what I consider free of "racial influence"
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You do know those "white" emojis are actually the color of the average Japanese based on the way they draw themselves...
As for yellow, it's because they used the standard yellow smile face as the base. Yellow because it meant happy.

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MacSlut said:
What? Only the yellow ones are race-free. For the others, to paraphrase Henry Ford... currently you can have any race you want with emojis as long as it's white.

What Apple did here was rather brilliant. Think about this, the system is fully backwards compatible. The receiver will still see the emoji pallet based on their system, but if they're current on iOS or OS X, they'll see the updated emojis. Plus, they've done this without adding clutter. The UI presents them as modifiers to existing emojis, not as new individual emojis.
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Those emojis are not "white". They are the color of the average Japanese. No Caucasian was used as the base for them.
 
phillipduran said:
I'd rather just see one emoji style. Grey, black, white, yellow, brown, green, doesn't matter. Just have one. It could even be all of those colors patched together.

I have the feeling this change is not going to have the results they think it is going to have.

"Hey so and so, why aren't you using the yellow emoji? Are you not one of us?"

"I see you're still using the white emoji, what's up with that?"

Ugh, we will see, but from what I know of the internet. . . this isn't going to end well. :rolleyes:
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Exactly! This is just introducing the possibility of perceived/actual racial abuse rather than making everything Utopian. I would have liked better emoticons, not the same old set with different skin tones. Give me strength.
 
sunking101 said:
Exactly! This is just introducing the possibility of perceived/actual racial abuse rather than making everything Utopian. I would have liked better emoticons, not the same old set with different skin tones. Give me strength.
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What would make for a "better" emoticon?
 
xionxiox said:
Yo imma let you finish, but emojis are created in more than one country! :) if you want to go even deeper, the original japanese emojis look like these: ( ^ω^ )
*\(^o^)/*(^_^)^ - ^ emoji has been adapted to include the small smileys we know and love
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"Ima let you finish"? What language are you speaking?

The set of emojis in IOS were developed in Japan.
 
Any bets on when someone makes headlines for "inappropriate" emoji use?

I think color options are pretty ridiculous. They should've picked one neutral color and stuck with it. This opens the door to so many potential bad choices. The chances to offend will skyrocket. Why give ammo to idiots?

To all those excited about the change and think it's such a great idea, just wait. This will cause way more problems than you think it will solve.
 
Albright said:
This thread is stupid, but I'm curious… Can anyone with the beta clarify how this feature works with emoji with more than one people in them, like # or # or, of course, #? Do all the characters end up still having the same tone?
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See, this is where I feel the whole thing is just a can of worms that would've been better left with no racial/ethnic identification at all (stick with the yellow smilies). There's always going to be the allegation that you're excluding someone: "I'm a white man married to a black woman; where's the emoji for my family," or "my skin isn't the color of any of the available tones," or, god help us, "the generic facial features/hair styles don't reflect my ethnicity."

I understand that as it currently stands they have white people and no other races, and I can see why some would find that problematic. But I wish they never introduced races at all. I'm all for generic icons with skin tones and facial features that don't identify any particular race, like this one: :)
 
Tilpots said:
Any bets on when someone makes headlines for "inappropriate" emoji use?

I think color options are pretty ridiculous. They should've picked one neutral color and stuck with it. This opens the door to so many potential bad choices. The chances to offend will skyrocket. Why give ammo to idiots?

To all those excited about the change and think it's such a great idea, just wait. This will cause way more problems than you think it will solve.
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Like, USA and Russian troops face-off over emoticon tiff?

I just can't see it.

Justin Beiber break-up ... maybe.
 
maflynn said:
I see this is pretty high up in Apple's priority, I kind of wished that they spent their liimited time and energy fixing the existing bugs instead.
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You're right. They took the iOS coders and moved them to the OS X graphics department. What a terrible move from Apple.

kds1 said:
"Ima let you finish"? What language are you speaking?
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Kanye-language, for those who don't follow the celeb news. It's a joke.
 
What exactly are Emoji for? I understand the point of smilies, used to express a simple emotion that might otherwise not come across without an incongruous written explanation, but what's the point of Emojis?

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tennisproha said:
Ha! Thats exactly what i was about to comment on. I stopped short b/c i figured someone would hate and try to give me a logical explanation of why…

How would giving you a logical explanation indicate hatred? If you ask me people are far too quick to call "hater" and "troll" etc on t'intermawebs. I'll probably get called such for this.
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Apple giveth and Apple taketh away

Apple gave me emoji's (whatever the hell they are and whatever the hell they are supposed to be used for). Apple took away all my menu icons, which are now invisible.
 
I don't really understand the point of emoji beyond basic smilies but if your going to have them in one real life skin tone then logic and decency says you should have them in others.
 
citizenzen said:
What would make for a "better" emoticon?
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More variations upon the standard 'classic' yellow smileys. Let's face it, more than half of the emoticons are useless and I would never send them, but the classic ones I send often. It's a shame that there aren't some better ones though, and I mean in addition to some of the standard good ones already present.
 
lunarworks said:
I can't tell what there's more of in this thread: Blatant racism, or socially inept pedantry.

1) Does multi-racial emoji have a negative effect on your life?

No.

2) Does multi-racial emoji have a positive effect on other people's lives?

Yes.

So what's the problem?
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Very well said, sad that people complain about this...
 
aerok said:
Very well said, sad that people complain about this...
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I think it would have been better to drop all the 'humanised' emoticons and just offer the classic yellow ones. Sure some strange folk would argue that they're Chinese or something, but I'm sure the vast majority of people would have zero 'race' issues with yellow smileys.
 
sunking101 said:
I think it would have been better to drop all the 'humanised' emoticons and just offer the classic yellow ones. ....
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I think they should drop all the cereals except for classic Corn Flakes.

All that variety is destroying society.
 
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