Google fixes burger emoji
Google CEO Sundar Pichai began the company's annual developer conference, I/O, by correcting its burger and beer emojis.
Pichai began his key note speech at the annual conference by telling the crowd: "Towards the end of last year it came to my attention that we had a major bug in one of our core products. It turns out, we got the cheese wrong in our burger emoji."
Google's original cheese burger emoji placed the cheese under the burger rather than on top ? an error that was originally highlighted on Twitter in October 2017 by writer and author Thomas Baekdal.
"I think we need to have a discussion about how Google's burger emoji is placing the cheese underneath the burger, while Apple puts it on top," he tweeted.
I think we need to have a discussion about how Google's burger emoji is placing the cheese underneath the burger, while Apple puts it on top pic.twitter.com/PgXmCkY3Yc ? Thomas Baekdal (@baekdal) October 28, 2017
The tweet was retweeted almost 25,000 times with most users largely agreeing that the placement of the cheese under the patty was incorrect. The thread attracted the attention of Google CEO Sundar Pichai who replied: "Will drop everything else we are doing and address on Monday :) if folks can agree on the correct way to do this!"
At the conference this week, the original emoji was presented alongside an updated version with the cheese placed on top of the patty.
Google also unveiled another updated emoji, which had original...
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