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A few eagle eyed employees at Team Android today discovered an unusual easter egg within Google Maps. Visiting these specific coordinates on the outskirts of Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Team Android found an image of the Google Android mascot urinating over the Apple logo to be imbedded within the map itself.

It's yet to be made clear who exactly created the image and placed it within Google Maps and, as Engadget points out, whether Google is even aware it exists at all at this time. While the two companies have been known to be rivals in the past, especially concerning their own individual Apple Maps and Google Maps services, today's development is an interesting new addition to their long history.

http://www.macrumors.com/2015/04/24/android-mascot-urinating-apple-logo/

Very classy.

 

[Garou]

http://www.teamandroid.com/2015/04/24/android-pissing-apple-google-maps/

I always thought Google to be a bit more witty about these kind of things...

 

[maxcriden]

It's the new Bart Simpson urinating I guess. Seems pretty classless as you said. I love scatological humor but for some reason people peeing on things doesn't usually do much for me.

 

[SneakyStephan]

Looking forward to seeing people get hurt feelings over one corporation virtually pissing on another.

 

[Sch1sm]

Inaccuracy at its finest. It's great.

 

[Dynamite Shikoku]

why pakistan

 

[maxcriden]

It's the new Bart Simpson urinating I guess. Seems pretty classless as you said. I love scatological humor but for some reason people peeing on things doesn't usually do much for me.

(There's another thread BTW.)

 

[mclem]

Hey, it might not have been placed by the developers! There might be a landscape gardener somewhere feeling very proud of themselves.

(or, alternatively)

Is this what you find after Mew?

 

[Siegcram]

Corporation pettiness is beyond sad.

 

[Ikuu]

No fun allowed.

 

[CengizMan]

I wonder what Apple's answer will be. Let's keep an eye on this location in Apple Maps.

 

[Duane Cunningham]

Kinda funny. It's like one of those dumb pickup truck stickers.

 

[Aiii]

It's a user submission in Map Maker that got past Google moderation. Nothing to get fussed about and not something Google personally did.

-Google Benelux as per Dutch source.

It's a protest against Google's Review policy.

As per this map edit a bit further: https://www.google.com/maps/place/3...,73.1271046,17z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0?hl=en

 

[Shuggananas]

I wonder what Apple's answer will be. Let's keep an eye on this location in Apple Maps.

in what ?

 

[BMX Bandit]

It's the new Bart Simpson urinating I guess. Seems pretty classless as you said. I love scatological humor but for some reason people peeing on things doesn't usually do much for me.

Calvin

 

[Tesseract]

it's washing it

 

[| Praxis |]

Reminds me of the elephant on this map of Africa

 

[Jonnax]

Looking forward to seeing people get hurt feelings over one corporation virtually pissing on another.

Lol yep. I can't wait for people to defend the honor of the company that made the highest quarterly profit of any company whatsoever.

 

[Aiii]

It's a protest against Google's Review policy.

As per this map edit a bit further: https://www.google.com/maps/place/3...,73.1271046,17z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0?hl=en

 

[JBourne]

It's the new Dilbert urinating I guess.

 

[AlexMogil]

 

[Bomber Bob]

It's the new Dilbert urinating I guess.

more like Calvin

 

[DiipuSurotu]

How can an android urinate in the first place.

 

[PreFire]

Always thought it was the other way around.. And involving shit instead of piss

I kid.

Pretty funny though

 

[Jonnax]

How can an android urinate in the first place.

Oil.

 

[Nevasleep]

How can an android urinate in the first place.

Memory leak.

 

[Bomber Bob]

How can an android urinate in the first place.

Sex bot

 

[Moff]

maybe there really is a forest with that shape

 

[DeSo]

lol that's great.

 

[Majine]

At least this is classier.

 

[John Bender]

No fun allowed.

Yeah, it is funny. But still.... crazy for Google doing this

 

[Machine]

My favorite was the fake cities that were inserted into a Michigan road map years ago: Goblu and Beatosu

 

[thelatestmodel]

more like Calvin

Except Calvin never did that

 

[ZackieChan]

Except Calvin never did that

wut?

 

[teiresias]

Yeah, it is funny. But still.... crazy for Google doing this

Except Google didn't.

 

[LaneDS]

I love scatological humor

That may be the least convincing way to say that.

 

[MarkMclovin]

People have that logo on their works laptop screensaver and their phone wallpaper.

The corporation hate can get a little weird sometimes.

 

[bryehn]

It's the new Bart Simpson urinating I guess. Seems pretty classless as you said. I love scatological humor but for some reason people peeing on things doesn't usually do much for me.

You mean Calvin.

 

[ZackieChan]

People have that logo on their works laptop screensaver and their phone wallpaper.

The corporation hate can get a little weird sometimes.

I'm gonna make a decal of Calvin peeing on your avatar now

 

[maquiladora]

I guess thats someones career over, unless they did it before leaving their job.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

lol. Who cares..some of y'all need to relax.

 

[RuGalz]

Lol. if you find that place in the Google Map Maker, someone added a Shopping Mall marker there.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/vop7AGH.png?1[/img]

 

[Reversed]

Has Watterson commented on the "Calvin peeing on X" meme?

 

[The Elite]

It's not a pissing contest.

 

[Schweinehund]

I'd hardly call them enemies when they were working together to keep their employee's wages down.

 

[Vigilant Walrus]

Corporation pettiness is beyond sad.

Steve Jobs was mad. Very mad.

Now with Steve Jobs' biography nearing its October 24 release, a number of excerpts have been leaked out to the public including Jobs' incredible disdain for the Android operating system and what he saw as blatant theft on the part of Google. According to the Associated Press, which purchased a copy of the book early, Jobs launched into a profanity-laced tirade when speaking to biographer Walter Isaacson about Android:

"I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this."

In a later meeting with Schmidt (likely the meeting discussed here), Jobs made it clear that he had no plans to settle on this matter:

I don't want your money. If you offer me $5 billion, I won't want it. I've got plenty of money. I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that's all I want.

Since that time, Google definitely hasn't backed down with Android, and its position in the market place has only gotten stronger. According to ComScore, Google's Android operating system is installed on 43.7% of smartphones in the U.S. compared to 27.3% for Apple. Likewise, Android's share of the market globally is just under 50% compared to 19% for Apple according to Canalys.

 

[Barkley's Justice]

It's a user submission in Map Maker that got past Google moderation. Nothing to get fussed about and not something Google personally did.

-Google Benelux as per Dutch source.

Bro, what about jumping to conclusions??!

 

[jooso]

Super funny, nearly fell of my seat hahaha.

 

[dave is ok]

This is the new Eek! The Cat urinating

 

[WeAreStarStuff]

That's great.