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Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world Bob @feddit.nl 2mo ago

This Dutch bike store uses a bike symbol and the Android share symbol to signify bikeshare bikes

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TIL this share symbol is android specific.

Edit: As other have mentioned, it's not Android specific (I was referring to the post title). From Wikipedia:

WordPress developer Alex King created the original Share Icon in 2006.

Thx @[email protected] for the Wikipedia Link
- It isn't
- The icon is two years older than Android.
- Well I didn't know that! Interesting,
- As an iOS user the Android share icon makes no sense. How does that icon represent sharing? The iOS one is much clearer.
  
  Icons generally dont have to make sense. The universal save icon being a floppy disk is a good example. It just needs to be recognizable.
  
  It's actually not Android specific, but even then they all make about the same sense to me (which is not a tonne)
  
  I think it's meant to show how one becomes two. One person shares... something, and then that something has doubled. I'm just used to it by now. Never really had to give it thought.
  
  As an Android user why does an arrow out of a square signify sharing something? (Also why is the apple share menu used for so much besides sharing things)
  
  Three dots being connected makes sense though it isn't intuitive.
  
  The first time I saw the square with an arrow I thought it was to spit the screen vertically or to connect to a projector.
  
  Huh. The Apple one is new to me. It looks like an "upload" icon, which I guess makes sense.
  
  The Android one looks like something being spread/copied from one point to two other points. Which also makes sense.
  
  Like splitting from another cell? Or like splitting a bullet. Now 2 target can share the sweet relieve of death <3
  
  /s
Almost as good as the car sharing sign in Germany

Explanation: "sharing" and "cutting in two pieces" can both be translated as "teilen"
- Nobody? Nobody? Fine.
  
  ...
  
  THAT'S A LOT OF DAMAGE!
- That sign looks too much like the sign for the "verkehrsberuhigter Bereich" sign in in my opinion.
  
  Nah, don't think so. The verkehrsberuhigte Bereich is blue and a lot bigger, and this here is always below the parking P since it's just an addendum. But it's really not intuitive to understand
There should be a community for modern heiroglyphics
What's the inscription next to it? "Donkey Repub..." ? 😁
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_Republic
It's strange that sharing hasn't really gotten a universal icon like most other things have.
- But it has?
  
  Wait, it doesn't exist in Unicode. Why?
I always thought it was a downward view of someone balancing two plates on poles.
That’s the national flag of Donkey Republic! How dare you desecrate it by letting it touch the floor!!!
donkey

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