The tech world is eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Apple Watch and Siri, it seems, isn’t any different. With the launch of Apple’s debut wearable just a month away, the iOS virtual assistant is apparently just as obsessed with the device as we are — as a simple “What are you doing now, Siri?” question will attest.
Check out some of the amusingly geeky responses below.
Siri has a number of preprogrammed Apple Watch-related Easter eggs, such as, “Just helping cast ingots and compress billets and blast zirconia beads for the Apple Watch. Ingots and billets and beads, oh my!”
The quips are fun, but they also highlight just how far Apple thinks it is ahead of the smartwatch game with its upcoming device. (The attitude is also obvious in the sly dig at competitors featured in just about every Apple Watch ad to date.)
More Siri Easter eggs
Another quip claims Siri was “just with the Apple metallurgy team, discussing the durability of ice-nine” (a reference to a fictitious material that threatens to destroy life on Earth in Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Cat’s Cradle).
There’s even an amusing swipe at Jony Ive’s British pronunciation of “aluminium” with Siri saying that he/she, “Just got back from IL8[,] mining some alumin-ium for the Apple Watch.”
This isn’t the first time Apple has included amusingly geeky hidden references in Siri. Ask Apple’s virtual assistant about robot movies, for example, and you’ll get some amusing takes on sci-fi classics.
For instance, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is, in reality, about a Siri-style virtual assistant which goes out of control and murders a large proportion of its crew. According to Siri, however, it’s about “an assistant named HAL who tries to make contact with a higher intelligence. These two guys get in the way and mess it all up.”
Siri can also clue you in on some actually useful Apple Watch deets, such as the release date of the device. Hey, at least the two aren’t feuding any more…
Source: iGen.fr
Via: iDownloadblog
Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
18 responses to “Easter eggs reveal Siri’s Apple Watch obsession”
I don’t get the IL-8 reference.
Oh, it’s 8 Infinite Loop. Since there are only 6 buildings on Infinite Loop, it’s implied that IL-8 must be a secret building of some sort.
Reported today that apple has cut iwatch production in half… iwatch cannot surf the web and in survey’s people are concerned about “iwatch battery life and cost” which will both be addressed in the 2.0 version…
Supposedly, they cannot get the “screens” from LG – but, but I thought that Tim Cook was the “supplies and logistics genius”…
no wonder why I cannot find anyone, even iphone owners, who are going to buy the iwatch..
Really? I’m an iPhone user, and I plan on buying one for myself and my wife. I know a few people at work who are eagerly awaiting the release, and a few of my close friends are as well.
Strange. Our anecdotal evidence seems to be just that. Anecdotal.
“Great” that’s “2”….keep it going…here’s another “anecdote” while we are at it…my attorney is leaving iPhone for a new BlackBerry….
He, like many, has determined that the Apple touchscreen typing experience is brutal…
Anecdotal again. At least you get that.
Here’s a fact: iPhone is the single most popular phone on the planet. Notice, I didn’t say OS. Yes, Android holds that claim to fame. Of all those dozens of MILLIONS of iPhone owners in the world, even if only a small percentage of those people buy an Apple watch, it will immediately become the single most popular ‘smart watch’, and probably the best selling WATCH of all time.
So, set aside your anecdotes about blog posts, personal opinions, and friend’s blackberry missteps, and realize that this thing is going to be hugely successful despite your position on it.
you hope it will be “hugely successful”…..because up to this point you are using “anecdotes about blog posts, personal opinions” not sure if you “get that”….
Actually, I stated facts. Not blog posts or opinions. The only time I stated those was to point out that your entire argument is anecdotal.
how many apple watches have been sold?
there goes your “facts” gibberish….
Question: when people become aware that they aren’t going to be able to “surf the internet” on their apple watch….will that be a “good thing” or a “bad thing”?
I plan on purchasing one as well, and so do my parents. But that’s beside the point why on earth does the apple watch even almost offend you? Haha, if you don’t want one don’t let it bother you. No one is forcing you to buy one. And same goes for Apple watch purchasers. If we want to purchase one leave us be. It doesn’t concern you. One thing I can garuntee is it will easily be the most successful watch out there, and I know that hurts you… Sometimes the truth does hurt ;)
“the most successful watch out there” isn’t a very high bar….is it, Josh? which color band are you planning on getting?
42mm Milanese loop stainless steel, why does that matter?
Who on earth would buy a watch to surf the Internet? That automatically makes your statement irrelevant as that isn’t on the mind of potential watch buyers. That is not a feature a consumer looks for on a smartwacth so to speak
josh… apparently, I am not as confident as you are that people know that they won’t be able to surf the web on an iWatch….come to think of it… what would you want to do on a 1.25 inch X 1.25 inch screen with limited battery life?
I guess I am making your point…
So angry… what are you? A disgruntled Samsung Gear customer with buyer’s remorse?
“So angry”….interesting take on my comment, friend…much bigger apple fans than me positing what i have….are they “so angry” as well?
I don’t have time for people like you Fred. Sorry, there is no point trying to get you to see the light, some people never do.
Why is a reference to aluminium a “swipe ” and not simply the British name? Is everything British a swipe at Johnny ive?