I'd be willing to bet it wasn't anyone in manglement. Heads should roll, amirite? Rumor has it they did, says Mark 85: Apparently.a few Oompa Loompas lost their jobs over this. This year announced a fake Gmail feature called Mic Drop. Paul Thurrott makes it one of his Short Takes: Every year, Google engages in the lamest set of April Fools gags. However, why leave it to a lowly software engineer to make the apology? Ridiculous and thoughtless. We regret that this joke missed the mark. We should have asked you before turning on the feature. … At Google we have a culture of sharing what we learned when things go wrong. We are sorry if Mic Drop was in any way harmful to you. We are working to bring back Mic-Dropped messages that had subsequent replies to your inbox.
GOOGLE MIC DROP PRANK UPDATE
Mic Drop was intended to ease having "the last word on any email." … Alas, the buggy implementation.led to the annoying animated images being sent even when users did not click the.button.Ĭue the abject apologies? Well yes and no: Google's Victor-bogdan Anchidin offers this nostra-culpa update to his foolish announcement: We heard feedback that some of you were negatively impacted.so we quickly turned it off. Martin- Google tried to be funny, cocked it up: Google.rapidly pulled the “Mic Drop” feature.in the early hours of 1 April after it caused “more headaches than laughs.”.
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Users said they had.accidentally sent the GIF in a work or sensitive email. When pressed, sent a GIF of a Minion dropping a mic and muted the email thread.
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inserted a prominent orange button in.Gmail.