Addressing one of the biggest faux pas of the decade, Apple is walking back its bagel emoji and implementing a much better, much sleeker bagel that looks like something you’d actually order from your local bodega.
Controversy first began after Apple unveiled its 70-plus emoji update in iOS 12.1. Here’s the original version.
Disgusting. Now here’s the improved version.
That’s much more like it. The original bagel looked stale, cheap, and plain, the kind of sorry excuse of a meal you’d heat up in the microwave and down with a cup of instant coffee. The new emoji, on the other hand, looks so plump and delicious, we’re tempted to go out and buy a bagel from the nearby corner deli right now.
Twitter agrees that the bagel redesign is a necessary improvement.
https://twitter.com/internetfionna/status/1052049276375724032
https://twitter.com/jeremyburge/status/1051974693211840513
🥯 State of the bagel emoji / October 2018 https://t.co/SgwmfkMpKq pic.twitter.com/NHFweJq4Ui
— Emojipedia (@Emojipedia) October 16, 2018
https://twitter.com/DavidSRudin/status/1051987774943956992
Apple must’ve put their entire A-team on the re-redesign of the bagel emoji because now it looks photorealistic. pic.twitter.com/A6IBZjWZtF
— Mike Rundle (@flyosity) October 15, 2018
https://twitter.com/stevesi/status/1052067311786504192
https://twitter.com/ripkyrsten/status/1052184475277365249
Hi, welcome to the 21st century where we complained that a bagel emoji needed to have cream cheese on it so apple listened and changed it… Fuck this world. pic.twitter.com/DsVVSb5prO
— Cam (@CameronWatson96) October 16, 2018
https://twitter.com/_CurlyFryGuy_/status/1052187883480600576
https://twitter.com/ProGamerDude_/status/1052183018620764160
Others are a little picky about the plain-bagel-with-cream-cheese look. After all, the best bagel in the world is an everything bagel with a lox spread.
A nice improvement, but do people actually buy bagels without sesame seeds? Could use one more rev, imho. https://t.co/6kJty5XrYl
— Mike Davidson 📴 (@mikeindustries) October 16, 2018
The New Yorker in me finds the new bagel emoji so beautiful and detailed but IT👏🏻NEEDS👏🏻SEEDS👏🏻 #everythingbagelsftw
— Michaela (@bulletprooftaco) October 16, 2018
Okay, so I’m not a New Yorker but I don’t get the bagel emoji thing. It looked fine to me. Also there is FAR too much cream cheese on it now.
— David Price (@pricivius) October 16, 2018
https://twitter.com/ibogost/status/1051989818853474304
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Apple’s new and improved bagel emoji is already part of iOS 12.1’s beta 4 update, and it’s expected to arrive across iOS 12.0-compatible devices with the public iOS 12.1 release later this year.
H/T the Verge
