Phones will not kill any more, or how Android P and others put a stop to gun emotes

Phones will not kill any more, or how Android P and others put a stop to gun emotes

Android P operating system has recently changed its gun emote; instead of an actual pistol, it now presents a water gun. The change can be pretty surely tracked to the latest mass shootout that recently have become America’s national pasttime. Since no company wishes to risk being somehow connected to the future and past trageides, many smartphone providers decide to ”chicken out” and remove any gun icons from their phones’ completely. Google is not the first one to do so, too: both Microsoft and Apple have got rid of them way in 2016. Gun emotes can still be found on Twitter as well as Samsung iOS devices, although it can be assumed that they, too, will disappear after a few more shootouts.

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