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It was only a few days ago when we asked Siri the fateful question, “What’s the best smartphone ever?”, to which our faithful assistant replied with, er, the Nokia Lumia 900. But now, it seems Siri has the answer to that question with a varied amount of witty and humorous responses.
Right now if you were to ask Siri the ultimate question, our whimsical assistant will utilise the phone’s A5 processor to give us responses such as, “The one you’re holding” or, “You’re kidding, right?”
Whatever the reason behind the change of heart from our digital friend is, I’m sure it really just boiled down to an engineer seeing Siri’s betrayal around the Internet and fiddling around with settings on the server side. Personally, I’m wondering what happens if we ask Siri what’s the worse phone ever. Answers on a postcard, please. [AppleInsider]
Updated: Nokia has taken a bit of offence to the sudden change, as spokeswoman Tracey Postill states, “if they don’t like the answer, they override the software.”
However, spokesman Doug Dawson says that, “We were certainly flattered.” Each to their own really. [BBC]
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This is actually kind of crappy.
As hilarious as it was that Siri would suggest the Lumia, it was still the most factually accurate response it could gather to the question. If I want a genuine answer to this now, rather than a witticism, Siri is no good.
Because “best” is an objective term.
If you say “wolfram alpha – what is the best smartphone” it will still show the wolfram alpha results. Just confirmed this.
By the way, the top line of that was sarcasm.
Can anyone confirm this on their phone? Seems a bit too convenient and humorous to be true.
Yes. I can confirm it was previously (as in yesterday) routing through to a Wolfram Alpha entry detailing the Nokia Lumia 900.
I mean the change so that it now says “The one you’re holding”
Confirmed, as well as the other one, see my post below
It’s said that from launch I believe (along with a few other “humourous” quips.
It was only this particular exact combination of words that caused Siri to query Wolfram Alpha (where the snippet on the Nokia Lumia 900 can be found) rather than the Siri response database.
Apple would of won a lot of hearts if they kept this ‘flaw’ and showed something resembling a human side.
Do you not remember the palava over the iPhone 4 reception fault and those screens with the yellow tint? Apple don’t like to EVER admit a mistake and will fight tooth and nail to avoid it.
Or any form of virus. The way they deny infections (to the point of shipping all computers with a firewall…but turn it off by default) is sickening.
The Yellow tint was caused by the glue not having time to fully dry. And resolves itself, a victim of the iphones success.
The antennae fault exists, but was massively overblown, I can make it happen, it never happens in real use for me.
The far bigger problem was that the screen would sometimes become active during a call and I would then end the call with my face by accident.
My point had nothing to do with how serious the problems were, merely that they were cases where Apple flat out denied there was any problem despite many genuine user reports of it. As for problems being overblown, it’s a double edged sword. If the media is going to treat every one of your product releases like the seoond coming you should expect them to react in a similar manner to your mistakes.
Also the yellow tint I was referring to was the one on the Mac displays, not the iphone, but excusing a defect as “a victim of the iphones success” is corporate doublespeak. It was a victim of trying to make iPhones too quickly to maximise profit.
Hilarious!
“Siri, what’s the least popular smartphone ever?”
“Wait, there are other phones?”
Nokia have accused Apple of bias after this change:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18071342
The reply I got was much better – http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/5938/photouq.png