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Sundar Pichai Explains To Congressman That iPhone Isn’t Made By Google & Sends Twitter LOL-ing

byPramit Chatterjee
13th December 2018
2 minute read

Science-fiction movies have often imagined alternate universes as the weirder version of our world’s reality. So, if we sit on chairs, according to ‘Rick and Morty’ in an alternate universe, we’re the chairs. You get the gist right? But have you ever wondered whether we’re currently in an weird alternate universe? Because that’s the only explanation for the Monopoly Man being in Sundar Pichai’s hearing and a Congressman thinking that iPhones are made by Google.

Sundar Pichai had to attend a hearing before the American Congress where he had to answer how Google filters search results.

https://twitter.com/geoffreyfowler/status/1072511887156412416

But things soon started get a little wacky as everyone noticed a man dressed as the mascot of Monopoly, sitting behind Pichai and twirling his mustache. And all this was happening when Pichai was answering why Donald Trump’s name was coming up when people Googled the word ‘idiot’.

As if that wasn’t enough to put this hearing into the “Oddball Moments Of 2018” list, Congressman Steve King went ahead and asked Sundar Pichai this:

“I’ve a 7-YO grand-daughter who picked up her phone before the election and she’s playing a little game, the kind of game a kid would play, and up on there pops a picture of her grandfather. And I‘m not gonna say into the record what kind of language was use around that picture of her grandfather, but I’d ask how does that show up on a 7-YO’s iPhone, who’s playing a kid’s game?”

 

Sundar Pichai calmly responded to this query by saying,

“Congressman, iPhone is made by a different company.”

Netizens were hilariously baffled as they couldn’t believe someone with little-to-no idea about modern technology, is out there questioning Google’s ethics. Here are some of the reactions:

https://twitter.com/flyoverstates/status/1072649654263779328

We live in a world of information and tech companies are always on the lookout for opportunities to hack into them for their own benefits (exhibit A: Facebook). So, we need people to examine their policies and make the internet a safer place for us. But if those in charge are like Steve King, I think we need to tutor them first about the basics of modern technology. Or, you know, just get people who are more knowledgeable.

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