iOS 10.2’s Bowie emoji isn’t actually him (but it totally is)

If you were excited about the shrug, you’re going to piss yourself over Apple’s new ‘singer’ emoji — if you’re a David Bowie fan, anyway. Nobody is going on record to confirm this is a Bowie homage, but you’d be blind if you didn’t notice the similarities. The iconic lightning bolt half-hidden by the colored glam-rock hair has Bowie’s alter ego, Ziggy Stardust, written all over it. Of course, if this were a Bowie homage, it’d be better served as a unisex emoji, a hat tip to the gender-bending pioneer himself. But, as Emojipedia CEO Jeremy Burge is quick to point out,…
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