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When Steve Jobs got Google logo changed; told Google: I don’t like the way… – The Times of India

vm_adminFebruary 15, 2026
When Steve Jobs got Google logo changed; told Google: I don’t like the way… – The Times of India

By TOI Tech Desk
Publication Date: 2026-02-15 05:09:00

Back in January 2008, Steve Jobs called Google’s Vic Gundotra on a Sunday morning—while Gundotra was in church—to complain that the second ‘O’ in Google’s iPhone icon had the wrong yellow gradient. Jobs had already assigned an Apple engineer to fix it by Monday.

It was a Sunday morning in January 2008. Vic Gundotra, then Google’s Senior Vice President of Engineering, was sitting in church with his family when his phone buzzed with an unknown number. He let it ring. Minutes later, he checked his voicemail—it was Steve Jobs, saying he had something “urgent” to discuss. Gundotra called back almost immediately. Jobs opened with a joke—”Vic, unless the Caller ID said ‘GOD’, you should never pick up during services”—before getting to the point.The issue? The second ‘O’ in the Google logo on the iPhone‘s home screen didn’t have the right yellow gradient. Jobs had been studying the icon and found the colour rendering off. He’d already assigned Greg Christie, Apple‘s Senior…

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