Apple is refreshing their emoji selection yet again. In their iOS 10.2 beta firmware, released this week, Apple unveiled their designs for 72 new emojis, approved by the Unicode Consortium.
The Unicode Consortium sets the standard for Unicode (what we know as emoji), but it is up to each manufacturer (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook) to design what each emoji will look like on their platform (iOS, Android, Windows, Messenger).
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With iOS 10.2, Apple brought new emojis including various male and female professions, and even a gorilla which many users, including myself, call Harambe. #DOFH.
Ah, but Johnny giveth and Johnny taketh away. With this update, Apple has made their collection of emoji appear more life-like and that has the Internet losing its mind! Within the emoji of food was a well-beloved fruit disguised a voluptuous derriere. This has now been replaced by a more natural-looking peach. Okay, let’s be real, it was never an erotic butt, rather originally designed by Apple to look by one. Apple has now made it look more like the fruit it really is.
But this isn’t the first time the Cupertino Giant has made an emoji change that upset the public. With the release of iOS 10, Apple modified the gun emoji, changing it from a pistol to a childish water gun. So long as they don’t replace the beloved penis eggplant emoji my boyfriend and I use so often, I think the earth will continue to spin.
