It’s a debate that swirled amongst the online world last month – which cheeseburger emoji has the most accurate layout?
While Apple and many other tech companies designed their cheeseburger emoji with the cheese on top of the patty, Google faced scrutiny for placing the cheese beneath the burger patty.
In response to ‘burgergate’, Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai said he would ‘drop everything’ to correct this, and now Android’s upcoming 8.1 release shows that he was good to his word – the emoji has been corrected.
While Apple and many other platforms designed their cheese burger emoji with the cheese on top of the patty, Google faced scrutiny for placing the cheese beneath the burger patty. Now, Android’s upcoming 8.1 release shows that the emoji has been corrected.
The burger emoji debate was sparked at the end of October when Thomas Baekdal, an author from Denmark tweeted a screenshot of Apple’s and Google’s respective cheeseburger emojis showing the different cheese placement.
He wrote: ‘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.’
Android 8.1 will also see the ‘Beer’ and ‘Beers’ emoji corrected. The previous Android beer emoji depicted a half poured beer stein with foam on top of the glass. Now, both beer emoji will feature a fully filled beer stein with with foam on top
The emoji changes are featured in the beta update for developers to preview, so they could still change before Android 8.1 is released
The viral tweet caught the attention of CEO Sundar Pichai, who wrote in response on Sunday: ‘Will drop everything else we are doing and address on Monday:) if folks can agree on the correct way to do this!’
The exchange between Pichai and Baekdal garnered social media jokes and suggestions.
‘Just Google Image search a cheeseburger,’ tweeted one user.
These changes are featured in the beta update for developers to preview, so they could still change before Android 8.1 is released.
Another wrote: ‘So proud to work at a company which has it’s priorities right.’
‘Cheese misplacement is clearly the result of not enough diversity on the emoji team. Damn those vegetarians,’ one user joked.
As seen on Emojipedia, Google is the only tech company that offers a cheeseburger emoji with cheese below the patty.
Android’s 8.0 cheese emoji features a wedge of cheese with lines from the wedge’s edges running through the holes, but the updated cheese emoji eliminates this issue
Apple, Facebook, Samsung and others all place the cheese on top.
Android 8.1 will also see the ‘Beer’ and ‘Beers’ emoji corrected.
The previous Android beer emoji depicted a half poured beer stein with foam on top of the glass.
Now, both beer emoji will feature a fully filled beer stein with with foam on top.
As seen on Emojipedia , Google is the only tech company that offers a cheeseburger emoji with cheese below the patty. Apple, Facebook, Samsung and others all place the cheese on top
These changes are featured in the beta update for developers to preview, so they could still change before Android 8.1 is released.
But Google hasn’t stopped there – it’s also fixing a bug on its cheese wedge emoji.
Android’s 8.0 cheese emoji features a wedge of cheese with lines from the wedge’s edges running through the holes, but the updated cheese emoji eliminates this issue.
Twitter users have responded positively to the news about the new emoji, as the previous versions were criticized by many.
THE ‘BURGEGATE’ EMOJI DEBATE
The burger emoji debate was sparked at the end of October when Thomas Baekdal, an author from Denmark tweeted a screenshot of Apple’s and Google’s respective cheeseburger emojis showing the different cheese placement.
He wrote: ‘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.’
The viral tweet caught the attention of CEO Sundar Pichai, who wrote in response on Sunday: ‘Will drop everything else we are doing and address on Monday:) if folks can agree on the correct way to do this!’
The burger emoji debate was sparked at the end of October when Thomas Baekdal, an author from Denmark tweeted a screenshot of Apple’s and Google’s respective cheeseburger emojis showing the different cheese placement