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WAITER! There's a Flappy Bird in my Lollipop!

New Android release includes frustrating, derivative, Easter Egg

Google's practice of leaving Easter Eggs in Android appears to have continued, with a chap spotting a Flappy Bird clone in the new version 5.0, aka Lollipop, release.

Here's his video of how to invoke the game, and a look at its gameplay.

That Flappy Bird aficionados among you will notice that the game scrolls from right to left, reversing the usual direction of flap.

That decision will probably cause quite … er … quite a flap in certain circles.

There's no word on whether the clone will persist in all Lollipop implementations. Or if doing so has the potential to cause Google antitrust problems. ®

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