Microsoft has assaulted Siri with a wave of ads pitting the popular digital assistant against Windows Phone’s Cortana, and while Siri repeatedly gets topped in areas like traffic alerts and reminders, she’s got some secret rhyming skills Cortana can’t top.
To showcase Siri’s mad ability to flow like lava, hip-hop producer Skeewiff featured her skills on his latest track “Know How.” Turns out Siri had the busiest rhymes ever made by man after all, and she’s got some harsh words for Cortana and Google Now.
Check the rhymes below the break:
Your move Cortana.
Thanks: Alex (Skeewiff)
Buster Hein is a freelance writer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Twitter: @bst3r.
11 responses to “Siri uses sick rhyming skills to dis Cortana”
Erm I’d rather have a consistent, able assistant than a gimmicky rhyme…..sort it out Apple, Siri is a joke.
Unlike many Apple fans I will agree with you. Siri should be much better by now. Fortunately this isn’t an Apple Ad.
It is unlikely that Siri will ever get much better. Apple bought Siri, they didn’t develop it so they don’t have the technology to advance it. Google Now and Cortana are both likely to receive consistent upgrades. IPhones have a better chance of utilizing Cortana in the future than seeing an improved Siri. In the mean time, it is fun to watch Apple get a dose of its own medicine at the hands of Microsoft.
Microsoft should just find their path into iOS. They should release a keyboard with a cortana button and force apple to accept the App or risk litigation.
You aren’t making Siri better, and you’re making hip hop worse.
I’d say, your move, but you’re already in over your head.
I guess I’d rather have iOS and a sub par Siri than a useless Operating System like Windows Phone.
I wish everyone would realize that this isn’t Siri, but something being read by the phone using a feature in the Assistance settings.
It seems like a lot of people posting about this article are taking this all way too seriously. I’m pretty sure any rational adult would understand that this is not actually Siri rapping. When the discussion turns to which digital assistant is better is where everyone really veers off course. It sounds to me like a lot of the people making negative comments about Siri likely haven’t picked up an iPhone and a long time and would be a lot more comfortable posting comments at the cult of android. Microsoft is in a unique position when making claims about Cortana. The fact is the vast majority of the public has never (and will never) experience Cortana in action, so MS could claim that Cortana could balance your checkbook while she rides a unicycle… It doesn’t mean it’s true or make Cortana more useful than Siri during my typical daily workflow. Siri works great for my needs and continues to improve. If Cortana can actually do a couple of things that Siri cannot (without crashing), good for Microsoft. It’s not a compelling reason to switch to their hot mess of an ecosystem. If Microsoft understood how people REALLY USED their mobile devices, then Apple MIGHT have a problem.
Lol, macboy to the rescue!
You are leaving out the fact that Cortana just came out this year whereas Siri was released on the iPhone 4S back in 2011.
So what if Cortana is better? It should be, Microsoft has had 3 extra years to work on it. That’s Microsoft for you, always 2 steps and 3 years behind. In about 3 years, they might have an App store worth looking at, a 64 bit processor and a biometric sensor in their Windows Phone as well. By that time, Apple will have released their successor to Siri and made the iPhone a whole lot more powerful.
A lot of people don’t know Apple has dedicated a team to working on their own voice recognition system (a Siri replacement). I don’t know how far along they are, but the results should be something amazing. Apple isn’t blind to Siri’s weaknesses. They are doing everything they can to make things better but it’s going to take some time.
Incidentally I use Siri all the time to open apps, look up weather, play music, and other things. She works just fine for me. I think people just don’t know how to use it.
I thought the song was funny and clever. Not sure why this turned into a flame war in the comments section.