Apple’s Diversified Emojis to be Racist?

Diverse Emojis

Isn’t it fun to be able to send in your emotions visually. Smiley , Sad emoji, Hearts and now even more exciting racially diverse emoji. Apple is all prepared to change the whole approach to Emojis.

All that you need to know about Emojis

Emojis are ideograms or in simple words smileys. These were first used in Japan in messaging and web pages. The word emoji means picture+character i,e (e+moji). These icons are standardised and built into handsets. The very first was created in 1999 by Shigetaka Kurita.

Apple’s Emoji

Apple is undulating out to new beta of OS X to developers . Here is a close look at the more diverse kind of ideogramsthat it offers. Apple has accepted the fact that there is no racial diversity in the emoji. Apple is always out to look out for improving its features by diversifying the features. Just as soon as the news spread about these racist emoji. There has been a controversy to the yellow shade. The yellow shade has been chosen for the Asian faces.

Hi Emoji diversified

The emoji’s can now be changed to different varieties of different skin colours. There are about three hundred new emoji’s included to the iOS 8.3 version. These new icons will be released only later this year.

We have all faced this at sometime or the other. Your friend sends you an emoji and all you get to view is a square box. The square box indicates that the emoji is not supported. Though the emojis were created in earlier.These gestures were added to the Unicode Standard only in 2010. Apple included these emojis later on only in 2011 on iOS. Apple since then has been keenly working with The Unicode Consortium to update the standard. The updated standards will help represent diversity for everyone. The Unicode Consortium set rules for text and characters. The rules ensured the consistency across multiple platforms. So that people may send emoji’s across various devices and it will still be readable.

Punch Emoji diversified

The emojis can change to a Caucasian emoji to a lot of other skin tones. There are six different varities of skin and hair. These options can be accessed by a drop down menu . At the moment the slew of emoji show on supported devices only. The original white emoji will appear in the characters not supported.

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