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APPLE REMOVES THE GUN EMOJI, REPLACES IT WITH A SQUIRT GUN
Popular Science ^ | 8/1/2016 | Carl Franzen

Posted on 08/01/2016 2:52:29 PM PDT by toast

Apple's latest software update for the iPhone and iPad features one of its subtlest but most symbolically significant design changes yet. iOS 10, which will be available for free download this fall, removes the revolver emoji and replaces it with a squirt gun.

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: banglist

1 posted on 08/01/2016 2:52:29 PM PDT by toast
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To: toast

P*ssies. Hope these liberal/socialists are the first to fall in another attack.


2 posted on 08/01/2016 2:54:20 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic...I'm Islamonauseous. Plus LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ...nauseous.)
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To: toast

“squirt gun”

still will get a kid suspended from many public schools. Back to the drawing board, eh?


3 posted on 08/01/2016 2:55:03 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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To: toast

pcemoji


4 posted on 08/01/2016 2:55:20 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: toast

Idiots. What a juvenile thing to do. These are adults in charge of this company? My retirement fund owns Apple stock. I wonder if there’s anything we can do.


5 posted on 08/01/2016 2:55:38 PM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: toast

Oh, how cute.


6 posted on 08/01/2016 2:57:08 PM PDT by freedom6178
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To: toast

Considering the demographic Apple targets, makes sense........


7 posted on 08/01/2016 3:00:06 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: toast

with an orange tipped barrel?


8 posted on 08/01/2016 3:00:42 PM PDT by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: toast

Can’t update my second-hand factory-unlocked Tracfone 6s to it anyway. Boo-hoo.


9 posted on 08/01/2016 3:00:43 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: toast

This should lead to a massive drop in gun crime


10 posted on 08/01/2016 3:00:59 PM PDT by American Guesser
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To: toast

Political correctness is mind control. This is silly to everyone except soccer moms and children. That gives you a suggestion on how far reaching a plan this is...


11 posted on 08/01/2016 3:15:51 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: toast
Dam! 😱🔫
12 posted on 08/01/2016 3:15:56 PM PDT by sheana
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To: toast

Does the iTunes store sell the Beatles’ album Squirt Gun?


13 posted on 08/01/2016 3:36:39 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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To: Swordmaker

*ping* ‘nother one...


14 posted on 08/01/2016 4:23:07 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: toast

Why not a toaster pastry bitten into gun shape?


15 posted on 08/01/2016 5:11:40 PM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is now on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: toast

Time Warner Cable has an add where a couch potato is sitting on the sofa with the kids, switching channels back an forth for each one, when suddenly Mom takes the device, deftly enters her multi-program array, and then...OMG, the horror...blows on the remote...as if it were a pistol!


16 posted on 08/01/2016 5:29:28 PM PDT by onedoug
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