Google鈥檚 CEO has promised to clear his plate and immediately address a major beef raised by the company鈥檚 Android users, who are complaining that their burger emoji isn鈥檛 assembled as well as the one from Apple.
Sundar Pichai recently tweeted that he will 鈥渄rop everything else鈥� on Monday, to make sure Google鈥檚 version of the burger emoji is redesigned to more closely match Apple鈥檚, 鈥渋f folks can agree on the correct way to do this.鈥� He included a retweeted image of the Apple and Google emojis together.
Will drop everything else we are doing and address on Monday:) if folks can agree on the correct way to do this!
鈥� Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai)
Pichai鈥檚 message followed a flurry of activity on Twitter, as Google Android users griped that their burgers simply didn鈥檛 stack up against Apple鈥檚. The Google version stacks the ingredients as follows, top to bottom:
- lettuce
- tomato
- patty
- cheese
The Apple version stacks things like so:
- tomato
- cheese
- patty
- lettuce
Note the cheese is directly on top of the patty 鈥� a detail any McDonald鈥檚 veteran will tell you allows the cheese to melt a little bit onto the warm meat.
More than a thousand users replied to Pichai鈥檚 tweet with comments on how to build a better burger, with the suggesting that neither design is accurate.
鈥淏oth are in the wrong,鈥� wrote user Tero Kuittinen. 鈥淥bviously, cheese must be on top of meat. But lettuce must be insulated by the tomato.鈥�
Obviously, cheese must be on top of meat. But lettuce must be insulated by the tomato - so both are in the wrong.
鈥� Tero Kuittinen (@teroterotero)
lettuce under meat keeps the bottom bun from getting (as) soggy with meat juice.
鈥� ��DARK ALEX RISING�� (@alex_insist)
but lettuces gets dark when in direct contact with heat. guess the isolation w/ �� makes more sense here.
鈥� ronalson filho ���� (@ronalson)
basically this
鈥� Saikyo Ninja KeiyosX (@KeiyosX)
They're both wrong. Google's cheese is wrong, Apple's lettuce is wrong. The correct order, from bottom up, is burger - cheese - toppings
鈥� Mark Goodge ���� (@MarkGoodge)
That's an unrealistic standard imposed by media. All burgers are beautiful.
鈥� Tanbin Siyam ���� (@potasiyam)
All official emojis must be reviewed and approved by the , which consists of a number of organizations and individuals working together to standardize computer language. Unicode decides on the general design of the emoji, but it allows companies to come up with the artwork for themselves, which can lead to some variation.
Many other food items also vary greatly from platform to platform. The cake emoji, for instance, is vanilla on Apple and Google devices, but chocolate on Twitter and Facebook.
