For a very brief moment in time, the Nokia 900 reigned supreme in the eyes of Siri. When asked what the best smartphone ever is, Siri replied back that the Nokia 900 4G was the best. Apple fixed that problem pretty quickly and made sure that Siri now replies that the iPhone 4S is lord of all smartphones. Now Nokia is pissed and says that Apple is conspiring against the truth, and if Siri’s opinions on smartphones can’t be trusted, what can? It’ll be anarchy.
“Apple positions Siri as the intelligent system that’s there to help, but clearly if they don’t like the answer, they override the software,” said Nokia spokeswoman Tracy Postill.
Nokia, when you’re king of the castle you get to make your own rules, especially when providing answers that are completely subjective. If Apple wants Siri to say that penguins are ostensibly cuter than pandas, or that cupcakes are better than brownies, it’s kind of their call.
There is a lot of truth to what Nokia is saying though. Clearly, Apple tweaked Siri so that it no longer uses WolframAlpha to answer the question, “What is the best smartphone ever?” Now Siri just provides a few preset responses like “You’re kidding, right?” “Wait…are there other phones?” or “The one that’s in your hand.”
WolframAlpha was a bad place to try to find an answer to that question to begin with, because it wasn’t designed to excel at those queries and just looks at rankings in Best Buy’s customer reviews. Maybe in the future Apple will use sites like TheWirecutter, or Gdgt to gather “best of” data, but Nokia will probably cry foul then too because both of those sites have the iPhone 4S ranked as the top smartphone too.
Source: SMH
Via: iDB
Buster Hein is a freelance writer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Twitter: @bst3r.
13 responses to “Nokia Says Siri Is A Dirty Little Liar”
Also if you ask her what the best tablet is, She says, “There is only iPad, [Name]”. If you ask her what the best computer is, she says, “All truly intelligent assistants prefer Macintosh” and, “If its made by Apple, then its the best computer”.
Anyone believe Nokia will file an anti-trust lawsuit with the false claim that the iPhone is better than their Lumina 900? I have a feeling Nokia won’t hold their grounds for long with a Samsung Galaxy S III either.
Yep that is so true. Well said Nokia! I’ve lived in the dark of the 16 boring icons that dont do anything for to long. I feel free :D
Shut up, Nokia
But side by side, spec to spec, the 4S does beat out the 900 in most aspects (that are relevant to a smartphone), including screen quality, pic and video, speed.
NOKIA Go get a Life.
Poor Nokia – my heart does not bleed for them. It bleeds for the price of my stock. The fact that it is worth crap makes me mad.
Well, if you continue to ask her if she’s sure, Siri will answer that we were talking about me not her. That’s a bit creepy since Siri shouldn’t know what and when I’m holding what
Has anybody noticed that we are talking about different questions?
@Luis Garza it makes no difference if “ever” is in the sentence or not. same results
SIRIously? Why take Siri’s answer so seriously? yes u can take some seriously(maps, weather…..) but when you are asking stupid questions, she’ll give you jokes. I’m not saying apple products are jokes when Siri uses them as answers to those “what’s the best…….”, of course she’ll say Mac is the best computer, ipad is the best tablet, and iPhone is the best phone!
Yeah right Nokia. Like the Lumia 900 is indeed the best smartphone, lol.
I am sure the question was “which is the best cell phone” when Siri answered with Nokia Lumia 900…