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Apple’s voice assistant Siri was flooded with posts blaming Apple on social media Weibo for skipping the number of gold medals won by the Chinese team at the upcoming Tokyo Olympics.
Siri couldn’t read the number of gold medals won in China
According to the South China Morning Post, several Weibo users uploaded a video reporting the number of gold medals won by country from their iPhone to Siri on the morning of July 28, local time.
In the video, 11 gold medals were won in Japan, followed by 10 each in the United States and China, and 7 in Russia, but Siri skipped only the number of gold medals won in China and did not read it aloud.
Just a bug, fixed in the afternoon of the same day
A technology blog familiar with Apple’s client services explained that Siri was set to read only one country at a time, so it could not read the same number of medals won in China as the United States. I am.
This issue was fixed on the afternoon of the 28th, and Siri was able to correctly read the number of gold medals won in China.
In other words, this was just a bug, but it seems that Weibo was temporarily flooded with the statement that “Apple discriminated against China” due to the tension between China and the United States in trade and technology. ..
Source: South China Morning Post
Photo: Time Video / Weibo
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Source: iPhone Mania