“Agggghhhhh i’m soooo angrrryyyy!!!!”
You’d think that in this day and age, big companies would be smart enough to pay attention to every last detail. Well, you’d be wrong. An eagle eyed iPhone user has managed to spot something that the people at companies such as Apple and Facebook haven’t, and that’s the fact that they got our beloved Jalur Gemilang emoji wrong.
Hafifi Hafidz, who noticed the gaffe took to twitter to point it out. In a tweet directed at Tim Cook in which he also tagged our Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahatir Mohamad, Hafifi calls on Apple to rectify the mistake, going as far as to file an official iOS report to the company.
I hope you can rectify this emoji @tim_cook
CC @chedetofficial pic.twitter.com/OylUbnDZqO
— Hafifi Hafidz (@theHafifiHafidz) September 26, 2019
The issue of the wrong flag seems to be an iOS 13.1 and after issue as the flag on iOS 13 and it’s variants before all have an accurate depiction of the flag.
As you would imagine, this flag gaffe got people talking and as it turns out, Apple isn’t the only one who doesn’t pay attention to detail. Facebook, for all their talk about championing everything that’s local seem to have dropped the ball as well. They are joined by the likes of Twitter, Facebook owned Whatsapp, JoyPixels and OpenMoji.
Ok in the case of OpenMoji, they even got the USA flag wrong so maybe they’re not into the idea of flags but the rest of you guys, tsk tsk tsk. The disrespect! Nah but for serious, what’s going on, man? Emoji updates are normally more realistic than the previous batch but in the case of our national flag, it just went from being factual to fictional.
I mean, come on. You don’t want to mess with Malaysians, especially because you know we love a good boycott of western products. Heck, we’ll take any reason to boycott western products. Also, you don’t see The Star-Spangled Banner being desecrated by these apps. Heck, Americans would be up in arms! They’d probably immedietely feel their rights to bear arms is threatened or something.
We’ll just have to see what Apple does about the complaint that was made, hopefully this matter is rectified sooner rather than later.
