It’s not often you hear that Siri isn’t a very bright girl, but Microsoft thinks its competing Cortana personal assistant is smarter.
Microsoft’s crack advertising team has created a new ad where a Nokia Lumia 830 phone running Cortana points out things it can do that an iPhone 6 Plus running Siri can’t.
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Is Siri getting a bad rap here? Well, I just picked up my phone and asked her, and she whispered sexily, “Cortana blows.”
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