The BBC reports:
Amazon has quickly changed its main shopping-app logo, after commentators said the recent redesign made it look like Adolf Hitler. Launched in January, the icon depicts a strip of blue tape over an Amazon “smile” logo.
But some observers said it resembled a toothbrush mustache, associated with the Nazi dictator.
The technology giant has now changed the design to a folded blue tape, following customer feedback. Amazon told BBC News the first icon had been trialed in a few countries before the change had been made.
Read the full article. I’m not seeing it.
lmao I completely missed that amazon quietly tweaked its new icon to make it look… less like hitler pic.twitter.com/Jh8UC8Yg3u
— alex hern (@alexhern) March 1, 2021
Amazon changes app logo that ‘resembles Adolf Hitler’ https://t.co/rmjPnkQErX
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) March 3, 2021