Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Apple against weapons: the emoji gun becomes a toy – BBC

the challenges of history also pass by emoji. All of us use daily, are those icons that we send in the chat and try to summarize in a stylized image all sorts of concept. There are flags, clothes, vehicles and aircraft, even Santa Claus and sweet puppies. Nevertheless, there are weapons: a bomb, knives and even a gun. And right now it is banned. Complicit in the bloody events that are martoriando the US, Apple has decided to remove the little drawing a revolver from iOS 10, the new version of its operating system for iPhone and iPad that will be released in the fall.



Shoot only for fun

to be honest the revolver will not disappear entirely, but to give an even stronger signal, will be replaced by a harmless water pistol. Thus an instrument of death becomes a game tool even if only in a computer program. This transformation is part of a wave of over 100 emoji coming with the new operating system. Among the innovations check the rainbow flag while many of the characters that represent workers and sports will have a greater characterization at the level of gender. Women can express themselves more effectively using emoji the basketball player, the Lifting weights, the surfer, the swimmer, who now are more pleasing, colorful and detailed.



Communicate through images

While we will write later, the QuickType the hint system will advise you to replace the words with emoji, the keyboard will propose to transform what we have already written in images while in the app ‘Messages’, dolls, vehicles and puppies will appear three times larger than now. In short, it is the culmination of writing for images, the expression that seeks to synthesize with signs and full color concepts, a form of communication that we thought relegated for the early days but that, thanks to chat, it is more vital than ever.

2 August 2016 (modified August 2, 2016 | 15:58)

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