Siri subtly shifts smartphone allegiance Conspiracy theorists and Apple haters, rejoice! Siri, Cupertino's iPhone 4S voice assistant, is no longer suggesting the Nokia Lumia 900 WinPho handset might be the best cellphone. As we reported earlier, that's the recommendation that Siri has been making of late. Siri checks Wolfram's Alpha database for the information, and …
than this? Like whether they'll be in business in another year or two?
And whining about result rigging - pot meet kettle? How else did Nokia manage to win "Best of year" awards for the Lumia 800 in September (!) last year within days of it launching in the UK, when it was obviously a disappointing product, unless they had "influenced" the judges (eg. advertising spend).
No your thumbs downs would be because this is a story about Apple manipulating the results in Siri but you go off on an unrelated anti-Nokia rant.
You wouldn't be an Apple marketting shill by any chance? After all you won't tell us your handle.
No your thumbs downs would be because this is a story about Apple manipulating the results in Siri but you go off on an unrelated anti-Nokia rant.
Nokia complaining about Apple manipulating results is rather pathetic when you consider that manipulating results is part of Nokias marketing strategy.
You wouldn't be an Apple marketting shill by any chance? After all you won't tell us your handle.
No, no relation to Apple or Nokia.
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"Nokia complaining about Apple manipulating results is rather pathetic"
They aren't... reghardware.com aren't Nokia, clue is in the name.
Oh, Nokia most certainly are complaining.
"Oh, Nokia most certainly are complaining"
Feel free to check your own references...
"Nokia spokeswoman Tracey Postill told the Sydney Morning Herald: "Apple position Siri as the intelligent system that's there to help, but clearly if they don't like the answer, they override the software."
However, when contacted by the BBC, Nokia said Ms Postill's comments were "lighthearted" and "taken out of context".
Clearly Nokia are having a chortle over this whole thing, but again, reghardware.com are the ones complaining here, no mention of Nokia complaining in this article at all.
I dunno about all that, but our company just bought ten of them for the service engineers to replace their awful Blackberry Shitstorms.
I always have the job of setting all our company phones up for email etc. I thought it was a nice piece of kit too., and the engineers seem very pleased with them.
Can't comment on durability or reliability yet, but I'm hoping that'll be Ok as Nokia have a pretty good reputation in that area.
I don't own one personally btw, so I'm not biased.
That AI has come to the iPhone and it even reads the news.
While you may claim that Apple has changed the database, I know better. Siri's personality must be specific and it has grown into a state where it became tired with being asked the same question over and over again.
As such it has reached the point where it can take no more...
"You're kidding right?"... You know what it is; either get one yourself or move on!
I seem to recall that when siri first made it onto the scene a lot of people asked a lot of dumb questions to the phone. What is the best phone being one of them.
The response is what you are seeing in these articles.
This was months before this "scandal" arose
I am guessing that they finally flipped a switch from "joke response" to "actual search", then this news item hit, so they flicked the switch back.
(honestly not an apple fan, have to use the products and they suck)
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