Tim Cook Changes Twitter Name to 'Tim Apple' After President Trump's Name Flub

Posted by devy on Thursday March 07, 2019 @02:26PM
from the macrumors.com dept.

https://www.macrumors.com/2019/03/07/tim-cook-twitter-name-tim-apple/

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Re:Tim Cook Changes Twitter Name to 'Tim Apple' After Presid... by afandian on Thursday March 07, 2019 @06:14PM (#19333619)

Great to see a playful response to your president.

But you can only see the Apple logo in his display name and bio on an Apple product because they used a special symbol. The rest of us have to put up with a Unicode unknown character box. The arrogance of it.

Firefox on Android: https://imgur.com/a/yEdfHB4

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Re:Tim Cook Changes Twitter Name to 'Tim Apple' After Presid... by HocusLocus on Saturday March 09, 2019 @05:04AM (#19345434)

Non-language Unicode characters are a tool of the Technical Illuminati to coerce us into using emoticons instead of native language words in literature and communications. Eventually they'll be able to issue font updates to 'change' published literature in place.

"We have always been at war with [0110 Eurasia 1001]."

[Unicode update]

"We have always been at war with [0110 Eastasia 1001]."

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Re:Tim Cook Changes Twitter Name to 'Tim Apple' After Presid... by kemalg on Friday March 08, 2019 @08:20AM (#19337226)

Unfortunately, timapple.com was registered in 2013 by a real Tim Apple. https://dofo.com/timapple.com

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Re:Tim Cook Changes Twitter Name to 'Tim Apple' After Presid... by devy on Friday March 08, 2019 @03:23PM (#19341817)

Interesting. I just learned that.[1] I wonder why Apple hasn't apply it to be accepted into the general unicode code points.

[1]: https://emojipedia.org/apple-logo/

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