Apple successfully pushed to have a rifle emoji removed from the standardized collection of icons, saying it would not support the image on iOS and would prefer it be removed from the list of 2016 candidates, according to a report from BuzzFeed News. The company first raised objections in May 2015 at the quarterly Unicode gathering, which brings together representatives from tech companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Google to oversee the addition and removal of emojis. The decision to remove the rifle was unique because most accepted emojis make their way to finished Unicode releases without much contention.
The debate was not contentious, according to BuzzFeed sources, because the existence of the handgun emoji alleviated the need to...
via The Verge
