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Apple is ruining the peach emoji in iOS 10.2

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I'm not complaining, since they're giving us Bowie emojis.

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Really? Apple's rounded, shiny 3D ones are disgusting, and completely out of place in their new-ish flatter UI design. Google's flat blob emojis are vastly superior.
Apple can't change them really dramatically at this point. They are so ingrained into pop culture and social awareness.

When people think emoji they think of the Apple version of them. It's the only one you ever see in media for the most part.
 
Knives and bombs have purposes other than killing people.

>Implying guns are only used to kill people and not for recreational purposes such as gun ranges, hunting, or even collecting.

Thing is, while guns are used to kill, so are bombs - so they could change that on the basis of suicide bombings. Or knives? The UK has a kniving issue since guns aren't an option, don't they?

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What happens when you send one of these to someone on Android? By "these" I mean the ones that don't exist on other platforms.
 
Do these companies not realize no one uses emojis for their "normal" use? I mean, when will I ever need an actual Peach emoji?? It's a butt emoji, that's what it's used for.

They ruined this one as well.
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That was my favourite Emoji ☹️

Now it's this:
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That's disgusting. That emoji was the best, why is it just another smiley face now?
 
That's disgusting. Why is apple ruining emojis? What did we do to Tim to deserve this?
In that case it was because their original art was fucking horrible. It was supposed to be a smiling face but looked like someone walked in on their best friend banging their spouse.
 
This kind of seems like an "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" scenario. Adding meaningful stuff like additional skin tones makes sense, but why are people being paid to continually redesign ghost and fruit icons?
 
In that case it was because their original art was fucking horrible. It was supposed to be a smiling face but looked like someone walked in on their best friend banging their spouse.

Yep. "grinning face with smiling eyes" that got misused as "oh god why" because it was so badly done.
 
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