Apple Inc. has launched a series of more than 100 new and updated emojis. The US tech company replaced the gun with a water pistol plus new designs to blend with it. Hoping it will be more inclusive.
According to Apple blog, it wants to "ensure that popular emoji characters reflect the diversity of people everywhere"
Emoji on Apple products are designed by the Unicode consortium. The new green and orange pistol emoji looks more like a toy and will replace the black and silver revolver. Meanwhile, some people took to Twitter to mock the swap.
"So they'll call it what, water-sprinkler emoji?" said Francis Omaballa.
"So they'll call it what, water-sprinkler emoji?" said Francis Omaballa.
More tweets after the cut...
Apple say the changes are an "exciting update" and "brings more gender options to existing characters".
"[These include] new female athletes and professionals, beautiful redesigns of popular emoji, a new rainbow flag and more family options," it said.
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