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