We’re all familiar with Siri’s issues by now. While the iPhone 4S – and the Siri personal assistant feature that comes with it – has been selling like crack-laced hotcakes all around the world, Siri is still mostly US-centric. Siri is limited to giving you driving directions for US streets, and will currently only recognize the English language. But it doesn’t end there. Evidently, Siri also has a problem with certain accents, as a lot of Scots have discovered. To demonstrate, someone put out this YouTube clip, illustrating just how frustrating it is to talk to Siri when you have a thick accent. [video after the break]
Do you geek-out by engaging in small-talk with Siri? Do you enjoy watching geeks try to flirt with Siri? If you’re any one of the two, then you probably enjoyed last week’s episode of The Big Bang Theory, where half of the episode’s plot revolved around the new iPhone’s digital assistant feature (basically, Raj gets a new iPhone 4S and proceeds to get weird with Siri). We won’t spoil the plot for you in case you haven’t gotten around to watching it yet, but the highlight – at least for us – was when their colleague Barry Kripke called the voice recognition software “tewwible.” Apparently, it couldn’t understand him when he asked Siri to “wecommend a westauwant.” Two clips from the episode after the break.
Ever since the release of the Kindle Fire – a.k.a. Amazon’s first actual tablet – there have been a number of complaints that range from a power button that’s too easy to accidentally hit to a screen that’s just not as good as advertised. Well Conan caught on to that and released this clip, where Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (“as far as you know”) apologizes for the tablet’s shortcomings and offers a couple of solutions in case you bought one and you’re not happy with it. Check out the video after the break; the last bit about the software update’s “brand new, one-touch solution button” looks handy.
You’ve seen Siri rap, play the piano, and sort out even the most impossible schedules for good ol’ Saint Nick. Now, you get to see Siri act, as the digital assistant stars in The Holiday Horror Movie. Okay, it’s actually a spoof trailer for a fake slasher movie, but the clip is something worth watching if you like extra heaps of cheese with your humor and have an extra two minutes on hand. The Holiday Horror Movie trailer starts off with a bunch of kids getting an iPhone 4S for Christmas. Siri then somehow becomes autonomous, and proceeds to murder the proverbial crap out of everyone, Jason-style. Fun! [video after the break].
Apple just got spoofed on Conan again, this time for losing another iPhone prototype. It’s basically another “Apple-styled” ad that shows Apple employees talking about what they’d do to the person who took their iPhone prototype, as well as all the stuff they developed to use on said person (digital Ebola virus, anyone?) …if they ever catch him. Sadly, they missed out on the unintentional comedy of Apple losing another iPhone prototype in a bar (again!), and it’s not as funny as the previous Apple spoof clips they’ve come up with in the past, such as the ones they did for Final Cut Pro X and the iPad 2, but it’s still an entertaining 90-second clip for people who follow the tech beat. Check out the YouTube clip after the break.
