Some of these posts are a sad display on humanity.
If you've never wanted standard graphical representations to look like you then you probably don't understand why people would want them.
People are asking ## why can't these hands look like mine? That's what all the new diversity options offer. If the current ones work for you then you lose nothing when more options are added for others.
What's funny is in arguments like this some people always feel the addition of options for others some how takes away from what they have. This is why the arguments for Apple to concentrate on bugs and not this emoji functionality are so funny. It is as if Apple can't create new functionality and work on bugs at the same time. LOL
I don't recall anyone complaining that a new camera for their new iPhone somehow deminished work on bugs. LOL I don't remember people complaining about Siri work taking away from bug fixes.
It's just new functionality folks! We used to love new functionality didn't we? When did that change? If you aren't going to use it why get upset? Just turn it off or don't use it. I turned Siri off for 2 years! Didn't bother me one bit that other people were using it.
If Apple had stuck with ##### they'd have been fine. Once they added these#### they knew they'd need more options. Because all their customers don't have the same skin tone.
It just boils down to its new functionality folks. Use it or don't use it. The development and introduction of the new functionality not taking anything from you.
I don't believe the purpose of Emoji's is to look like someone, and if enough people want icons to look like them, then perhaps Apple should create an emoji feature in Photo Booth...
Not withstanding I agree with you that the biggest problem is the addition of the white faces you mentioned above. Personally I do not feel that adding ethnicity to emojis adds anything worthwhile to a conversation.
I'm happy.
I'm sticking out my tongue. The fact that I'm black or white, or asian, or hispanic, or eskimo etc is absolutely irrelevant - unless one is trying to engender some form of racial camaraderie following comment, based upon one's race.
I suspect a black person feels happiness in the same way as a white person, and a white person feels pain in the same way as a black person, or a Chinese person. If one is crying it's irrelevant the colour of their skin or the shape of their eyes - just that tears are coming out of them. And that's what these icons are for (or should be for): to express an EMOTION, not the colour of one's skin. Apple would have been better served creating icons that highlight how we all feel as part of the common and united human experience, rather than creating divisions between people.
Furthermore, the interface for selecting icons may be perceived as an issue. If the black icon set comes after the white icon set, is this because Apple perceives that white people come before black people? How should we arbitrarily assign order? Should we randomise the display place (terrible interface) or order Alphabetically? Should black (brown) come before white (pink) - and then where does Chinese fall in etc.?
Certainly it would be an interesting social experiment to post the same comment as a perceived white person, vs. perceived black person, and not the emotional response from each ethnic group - but I'm sure this would merely serve to highlight the ill-conceived division these icons can cause.
If Tim Cook as a homosexual and Apple CEO posted with a rainbow emoticon, would it add value to anything he had to say - absolutely not, as in an inclusive society race/sexual orientation etc has no relevance to one's comments.
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The thing I was really waiting for is the county flags. But they only added so few...if I'm not mistaken Google has a lot more on Android Lollipop...
True and their designers feel that Scottish, English, Welsh, Northern Irish are to be classified as British, which many of them do not identify with.
