Google’s Android reached out to social media users and encouraged them to nominate a word starting with the letter N for the next latest version of Android’s mobile operating platform on Wednesday.
The submissions were asked by an Andriod website, they asked for “any tasty ideas that start with the letter N” for the new “Android N” operating platform. On Wednesday, the new version of operating platform was unveiled at its Google I/O developers conference.
The n-word is frequently used as a stand-in for an offensive racial and after people heard it, a strong negative reaction ranged over it.
Here Are Some Of The Tweets:
Android's 'n-word' poll sparks online jeers https://t.co/TPY6XBsSMi #NameAndroidN https://t.co/X8A6oXX2fl
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 18, 2016
Oh my god Google no pic.twitter.com/f1hQjI7WWc
— Andrew (@andrew___myname) May 18, 2016
https://twitter.com/fart/status/732994528508928000
I think it's obvious how #nameandroidn can go terribly wrong lol
— 𝚋𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚊𝚜𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚎𝚖𝚙𝚝𝚢 (@skullisnull) May 18, 2016
Android Nope #NameAndroidN
— Schrödinger Cait (@stimpyjaycat) May 18, 2016
https://twitter.com/Hamwado/status/733024345652617218
https://twitter.com/Shiapra/status/733024750822412288
#NameAndroidN NomNoms
— Patrick Richardson (@setfloat) May 18, 2016
#NameAndroidN #NUTELLA pic.twitter.com/BRrsvV3V92
— D∆VID MONTOY∆ (@DavidMontoya04) May 18, 2016
On Wednesday, Gizmodo reported that the online anonymous message board 4chan was flooding with the name submission of Android name submission site with suggestions related to an offensive name for black people.
On the other hand, some of the suggestions like “nachos,” “Nutella” and “nectarine” were submitted by social media users.
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19 May 2016
Avni S. Singh