New York is “Hell” according to the iPhone
This is something interesting…Apparently, when you type in “Hell” in the iPhone weather widget, the first thing that pops up is “New York, NY”. NY is followed by Hellertown, PA, Hellier, KY, Hellin, and Castilla-La Mancha(Spain). Interestingly, Hell, Michigan, which is a real place, isn’t listed at all.
This is one of those little “easter eggs” that sometimes get put into applications, and I’m sure someone is probably going to get in trouble now that it’s been on digg, and will no doubt propagate throughout the web.
Personally, i don’t think it’s a big deal, but I’m sure there are some New Yorkers out there who will take offense. What do you think? Should this upset anyone?
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New York is “Hell” according to the iPhone | Uncategorized | Information about the iPhone
March 18th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
[...] blueion wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptApparently, when you type in “Hell” in the iPhone weather widget, the first thing that pops up is “New York, NY”. NY is followed by Hellertown, PA, Hellier, KY, Hellin, and Castilla-La Mancha(Spain). Interestingly, Hell, Michigan, which … [...]
Seth Meyer
March 18th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
No chance that that’s referring to Hell’s Kitchen, New York, is it?
Michael
March 18th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
@Seth
I suppose that’s possible, but I doubt it. That may make for a good excuse, though.
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March 18th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
[...] blueion wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptApparently, when you type in “Hell” in the iPhone weather widget, the first thing that pops up is “New York, NY”. NY is followed by Hellertown, PA, Hellier, KY, Hellin, and Castilla-La Mancha(Spain). Interestingly, Hell, Michigan, which … [...]
Justin
March 18th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell’s_Kitchen,_Manhattan
Bill Shirley
March 18th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
corrected:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%27s_Kitchen%2C_Manhattan
more likely hidden aliases than easter eggs,
any new yorker who would get upset by that, is only worthy of being a stereotypical new yorker,
jake
March 18th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Michael–
Dude, of course it is a reference to Hell’s Kitchen. This is a non-story.
Michael
March 18th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
@Jake
Maybe so, and I would agree its certainly not a “huge” story, but I do find it odd that when I type in “hells kitchen” I don’t get anything. Now, if I type in “Hell’s Kitchen” I get New York…so that makes sense, but why make Hell bring up New York and not Hells Kitchen?
mikelite
March 18th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
they’ve obviously never been to st. louis
Bryan
March 19th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
I would have put Detroit in the top spot….
robrt
March 21st, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Hell does not yield New York, New York on my iPhone’s weather widget.
Michael
March 21st, 2008 at 7:48 pm
@robrt
That’s interesting…It does on mine – what version of the software are you running?