India just ruined Microsoft Excel’s rating on the App Store because they hate Surf Excel. Clearly, the two are different products altogether, but it seems stupidity has no name.<\/p>\n
The Indian public didn’t read a lot of things right lately. Be it from the fake Balakot airstrike, to a beautiful ad on interfaith harmony for Holi, and now names on the App Store.<\/p>\n
Excel, Excel hota hai, chahay asli ho ya jaali.<\/strong><\/p>\n Like any millennial, when Indian nationalists got mad at Surf Excel for promoting interfaith harmony on Hindu holiday Holi, they thought we’ll get you back at the App Store.<\/p>\n The thing is Surf Excel is a washing detergent manufacturer. Meanwhile, the world’s most famous app for spreadsheets, Microsoft Excel took the beating for the name (they got the wrong guy here). Hindu nationalist keyboard warriors started to review-bomb Microsoft Excel instead.<\/p>\n Now despite the aggressive campaign, the number of such reviews are low. The ridiculous thing is these people are starting to believe their own lies. One review actually read:<\/p>\n \u201cI used to like this app, until they partnered with Surf and made such a disgusting anti religious ad. Now where ever I read the word Excel I can only think of anti Hindu propaganda. Shame on you for doing this.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n It is clear these people read the entire situation wrong (didn’t read it at all probably), as there is no partnership between Microsoft and Surf.<\/p>\n Even the hate towards Surf Excel’s ad is uncalled for. The ad promotes religious harmony,\u00a0how can that be read negatively? Based on the reviews, logic and rationality are clearly missing.<\/p>\n \u201cboykot sarf excel. hindu birodh hai. pakisthan me ja kar business kar.\u201d (Boycott Surf Excel. It is anti-Hindu. Take your business to Pakistan.) Another, coming in late in the day, writes, \u201cYe hindu virodhi hai,\u201d meaning \u201cthis is anti-Hindu.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Some of these reviews weren’t even funny but straight up threatening.<\/p>\n \u201cYou traitors, if we put our minds to it you\u2019ll have to close your Surf Excel business and flee. You don\u2019t know Sangh workers. Jai Gaumata\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This isn’t the first time Indians took their\u00a0conflict to the App sSore. Or even the\u00a0first time they\u00a0review-bombed the wrong app.<\/p>\n Back in 2017, a leaked report revealed that Snapchat\u00a0CEO Evan Speigel thought that\u00a0‘the company shouldn’t plan to expand into India as the country was \u201ctoo poor\u201d’.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Indians were furious at Speigel obviously. However, it was an Indian e-commerce company Snapdeal which got the worst of it. Whether they didn’t realize they got the wrong man or that there’s a difference between the two apps, an Indian company suffered.<\/p>\n via HuffingtonPost<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" India just ruined Microsoft Excel’s rating on the App Store because they hate Surf Excel. Clearly, the two are different products altogether, but it seems stupidity has no name. The Indian public didn’t read a lot of things right lately. 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Why the Hate for Surf Excel?<\/h3>\n
History Repeats Itself<\/h3>\n