Google Maps Easter egg shows Android mascot urinating on Apple logo [updated]

24

Comments

  • Reply 21 of 80
    paul94544paul94544 Posts: 1,027member
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by razormaid View Post





    Yikes if what you say is true - that anyone can hack into the code for google maps and insert code like this - doesn't that speak volumes for their security at Google?

    Google Security

    Android Security

     

    A new couple oxymorons for my collection

     0Likes 0Dislikes 0Informatives
  • Reply 22 of 80
    gatorguygatorguy Posts: 24,771member
    Good of you to leap in to defend Google.

    I have tried Scrollmaps, it doesn't work. I wouldn't put Chrome on a Mac.

    If it is the mouse why can every other mapping system work fine. How come the same mouse used to work with Google map, at some point this started, I have the same mouse ... I don't have the same version of Google maps ... you do the math.

    Sorry why am I replying! Sheesh ...
    Don't be so defensive. :\ I tried to give you a fix for something you were complaining about and pointing out it wasn't specific to Google Maps.
    https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/30119/how-to-control-mouse-wheel-zooming-with-apple-magic-mouse

    Your personal best choice is not to use Google since you don't want anything to do with them anyway even if they milled you bars of gold every time you did a search. So don't use 'em. Others here probably will appreciate the advice and in the meantime I'll try not to forget again not to bother trying to help you. That's apparently not what you want so back to ignore.

    As for your "Why am I replying" of course you are. You've been trolling me for days with several baiting posts. I just haven't bitten till just now. I'm sorry I tried to be helpful to you this time.
     0Likes 0Dislikes 0Informatives
  • Reply 23 of 80

    Why O why would anyone install Chrome on their Mac? 

     

    I work hard to stay out of the Go-ogle Borg Collective.

     0Likes 0Dislikes 0Informatives
  • Reply 24 of 80
    lkrupplkrupp Posts: 10,557member

    Meanwhile I just received an email from StubHub, the big national venue ticket reselling service, announcing their Apple Watch app. I don’t recall if there was any such announcement for an Android Wear watch. Tons of important companies are announcing apps for the Apple Watch, jumping on the bandwagon. 

     

    So this sophomoric easter egg says loads about the two companies. There’s a reason Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson made that dumb movie “The Internship” about Google instead of Apple. 

     0Likes 0Dislikes 0Informatives
  • Reply 25 of 80

    Un-f'ing-believable.

     0Likes 0Dislikes 0Informatives
  • Reply 26 of 80
    boltsfan17boltsfan17 Posts: 2,294member
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by PScooter63 View Post

     

    Already gone...

     

    LEAD Technologies Inc. V1.01


    It's still there. You can only see it on the app. I just looked right now and it's there. Copy these coordinates and put them in google maps app:

     

    33°30'48.0"N 73°03'32.2"E

     0Likes 0Dislikes 0Informatives
  • Reply 27 of 80

    Regardless of who did this, whether some Google coder coterie or user-submitted map data (as another poster suggested), it just makes Google look undignified. Just like anyone with a pee-on Ford/Chevy sticker. Childish mentality. If it were the other way around, I would feel embarrassed.

     0Likes 0Dislikes 0Informatives
  • Reply 28 of 80
    revenantrevenant Posts: 621member
    razormaid wrote: »
    Yikes if what you say is true - that anyone can hack into the code for google maps and insert code like this - doesn't that speak volumes for their security at Google?

    Speaking of security- this just came out

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32429477
     0Likes 0Dislikes 0Informatives
  • Reply 29 of 80
    gatorguygatorguy Posts: 24,771member
    [I]"I have tried Scrollmaps, it doesn't work."[/I]

    For those with unintended zoom instead of scroll problems I noticed someone else a few days back had mentioned it regarding some graphics program and the Magic Mouse. This is what they found to work.

    http://www.postseek.com/meta/50e51a5179c33fca0738f597e924d9fc
     0Likes 0Dislikes 0Informatives
  • Reply 30 of 80
    gatorguygatorguy Posts: 24,771member
    boltsfan17 wrote: »
    It's still there. You can only see it on the app. I just looked right now and it's there. Copy these coordinates and put them in google maps app:

    33°30'48.0"N 73°03'32.2"E

    Copied the coordinates but still don't see it even zooming in as far as possible.
     0Likes 0Dislikes 0Informatives
  • Reply 31 of 80
    gwydiongwydion Posts: 1,101member
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by razormaid View Post





    Yikes if what you say is true - that anyone can hack into the code for google maps and insert code like this - doesn't that speak volumes for their security at Google?

    Is not code for Google Maps, it is Mapmaker, like Open Street Map data

     0Likes 0Dislikes 0Informatives
  • Reply 32 of 80
    matrix07matrix07 Posts: 1,993member
    Always classy these Android people :rolleyes: I'm so glad I try to stay away from them as far as possible.
     0Likes 0Dislikes 0Informatives
  • Reply 33 of 80
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by eightzero View Post

     

     

     

    I care.  For a company like Google to release software like this is an outrage.

    This could very well have been pornographic images for kids playing with their parents' iOS devices.

     

    I hope Apple Dumps Google Search to get rid of these clowns once and for all.

    Time will tell.

     0Likes 0Dislikes 0Informatives
  • Reply 34 of 80
    boltsfan17boltsfan17 Posts: 2,294member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Gatorguy View Post





    Copied the coordinates but still don't see it even zooming in as far as possible.

    That's odd. I tried it on my iPhone and several other iPhone's of co workers and it still is showing in the iOS app. 

     

    EDIT: It's now just been removed. It was there literally 5 minutes ago. 

     0Likes 0Dislikes 0Informatives
  • Reply 35 of 80
    boltsfan17boltsfan17 Posts: 2,294member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Gatorguy View Post





    Copied the coordinates but still don't see it even zooming in as far as possible.

    This is screen shot I took

     

     0Likes 0Dislikes 0Informatives
  • Reply 36 of 80
    idreyidrey Posts: 647member
    The words Android and Original shouldn't be used in the same sentence!

    True! After all an android is just a copy of a human
     0Likes 0Dislikes 0Informatives
  • Reply 37 of 80
    idreyidrey Posts: 647member
    There are way more important things happening today! Like ?Watches being deliver and apple making more billions! So let them waste their time while apple laughs it way to be a trillion dollar company
     0Likes 0Dislikes 0Informatives
  • Reply 38 of 80

    Drop Google Maps Now!

     

    Use Apple Maps!

    Install Nokia Here if you want a third party App.

     0Likes 0Dislikes 0Informatives
  • Reply 39 of 80

     

    "Sir, are you aware that you're leaking coolant at an alarming rate?"

    (Fear of A Bot Planet, 1999)

     

    -proof Androids (Robots) do not urinate or supposed to leak coolant. :)

     0Likes 0Dislikes 0Informatives
  • Reply 40 of 80
    gatorguy wrote: »
    Don't be so defensive. :\ I tried to give you a fix for something you were complaining about and pointing out it wasn't specific to Google Maps.
    https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/30119/how-to-control-mouse-wheel-zooming-with-apple-magic-mouse

    Your personal best choice is not to use Google since you don't want anything to do with them anyway even if they milled you bars of gold every time you did a search. So don't use 'em. Others here probably will appreciate the advice and in the meantime I'll try not to forget again not to bother trying to help you. That's apparently not what you want so back to ignore.

    As for your "Why am I replying" of course you are. You've been trolling me for days with several baiting posts. I just haven't bitten till just now. I'm sorry I tried to be helpful to you this time.

    He was probably happy for the advice, but didn't like your opinion written as unbiased fact. After #digitalclips questioned if Google intentionally hobbled our experience, you said "Nope, unintentional of course."

    Saying "of course" implies he was making an obvious mistake, or that he shouldn't have questioned in the first place. It's common knowledge that Google has intentionally crippled competitors in the past, telling carriers that certain third party mapping apps were incompatible with Android cause losing the mapping data would be "terrible", found out with investigations. They told Apple they didn't have the ability to add vector maps or turn by turn directions because of one excuse after the other, then Apple Maps came out and Google Maps added vector and turn by turn right away. So when you say "of course" in an attempt to keep people from questioning Google, despite this common knowledge, it shows that you do have a little bias after all. :) Its ok, the appleinsider commenters will help you through this. Or call you out. :D

    So, it's very possible Google is doing this intentionally. I mean look at the wizardry with which Google bypassed Safari's privacy settings when it fit with their agenda.
     0Likes 0Dislikes 0Informatives
Sign In or Register to comment.