At Google’s I/O developer conference, the tech company showed off its latest, untitled Android operating system. In keeping with the tradition of naming its IOS in alphabetical order, the latest version will begin with the letter N. Innocent enough, until Google asked the Internet to help name it.
An Android website asked for submissions for “any tasty ideas that start with the letter N” for its new “Android N” operating system. There’s also a hashtag: #NameAndroidN.
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“Please don’t call it Namey McNameface,” Dave Burke, Google’s vice president of engineering, told the Google’s annual IO conference. Which should have been an indication that it wasn’t going to end well.
Here are some of the suggestions:
I think it’s obvious how #nameandroidn can go terribly wrong lol
— Tøm (@skullisnull) May 18, 2016
So lets give Android a meaningful name, something that says what it is #NameAndroidN pic.twitter.com/MGe50yPKWH
— Jonathan Fielding (@JonthanFielding) May 19, 2016
There’s no suitable name as Nipple! It’s both sweet and tasty!@Android #NameAndroidN
— Alireza Afkar (@Alireza_Afkar) May 19, 2016
Android NotEvenOnce#NameAndroidN
— the grugq (@thegrugq) May 19, 2016
Do it, @Android !!! #NameAndroidN #WithAneWeStand pic.twitter.com/0UYDmEs0cZ
— Amin Jabar (@aminjabar) May 19, 2016
Android Nope #NameAndroidN
— Schrödinger Cait (@stimpyjaycat) May 18, 2016
Turns out @google lets you submit the n-word! Great. #io16 pic.twitter.com/zkfWtNMy1s
— Patrick Lucas Austin (@patbits) May 18, 2016
Oh man, @google, you really didn’t think this one through. “Nazi” is also allowed! #io16 pic.twitter.com/xVNR8lCnqP
— Patrick Lucas Austin (@patbits) May 18, 2016
#NameAndroidN Namey McNameFace… oh… we can’t have that?
— Hamish Thompson (@Hamwado) May 18, 2016
Nothing is more Google than trying to run a global naming contest and *explicitly* asking people to pick an n-word. Wonder what they’ll get.
— Anil Dash (@anildash) May 18, 2016
Last month, technology company Microsoft was forced to apologise for “unintended offensive and hurtful tweets” after its artificial intelligence chatbot, Tay, became racists, sexist and homophobic after Twitter users figured out how to manipulate the bot.
