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Apple Sued over 'Misleading' Advertising in Siri Depictions
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I saw an ad for taco bell the other day for their new product. It showed groups of people having fun and enjoying life while eating the delicacy. I tried it and didn't have the same experience as the fellas on the ad did. Can I sue?
I don't see this guy getting anything and I don't think he deserves anything, but one thing that really annoyed me was Apple advertising Siri as a reason to buy an iPhone 4S while simultaneously calling it a beta product. If you're charging for a new product, you can't just say, well, it's still in beta. Give it as a free trial (which Apple did when it was a standalone app on the other iPhones), or advertise the new processor, but leave Siri out of advertising until you're ready to stand by the product 100%.
Siri is great. There's a learning curve. Put in the effort, buy the great $5 book on the Kindle, manage your expectations, learn its strengths and its weaknesses and you will find Siri indispensable. On the other hand, if you're a lazy and entitled, you won't get any benefit from Siri at all.
PS, don't tell my wife about the "lazy and entitled" part of this post, she hates siri.
http://www.amazon.com/Talking-Siri-...VDU6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1331591541&sr=8-1
PS, don't tell my wife about the "lazy and entitled" part of this post, she hates siri.
http://www.amazon.com/Talking-Siri-...VDU6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1331591541&sr=8-1
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Agree to a point
While I hate people who try to get money out of stupid lawsuits Apple was careless and treated Siri like a full fledged software that was not as functional as it made it out to be. Also, letting the regular "public" aware that it was still in beta was not done very well also.
While I hate people who try to get money out of stupid lawsuits Apple was careless and treated Siri like a full fledged software that was not as functional as it made it out to be. Also, letting the regular "public" aware that it was still in beta was not done very well also.
By the way, I just asked Siri "where am I?" and it told me. I asked Siri "where's the nearest gas station" and it gave me 10 within 2 miles. I asked "where can I find chinese food around here" and it showed me about 15 within 5 miles. I asked Siri to send a text message to "my wife" and it sent it, perfectly, without errors.
What do these people want?
What do these people want?
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Oh bull. I can duplicate what it does in the ads just fine. If you can't you are incompetent.
Yes this.
I'm still amazed how people on this forum are rabidly fanatical about this company. I know it's 'macrumors' but sometimes the people who comment are ridiculously blind. Apples commercials DO depict Siri much differently than real world usage.
I just asked Siri the same things and would not understand a single word I said
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Incompetent at what? Comprehending Apple commercials? Is it a prerequisite to buying Apple products or something?
People really need to learn to read the fine print. Every TV ad has disclaimers on the screen. Closed coarse, professional driver, ect. All smartphone and tablet ad says Screen images simulated and time sequences shortened. Nothing on TV works the same in the real world. I saw a truck snowboard down a mountain, should I file a complaint from the bottom of the ditch after I try this?
Truth in advertising is an oxymoron.
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Truth in advertising is an oxymoron.
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I don't use Siri as she's busy 90% of the time and useless 5%. The remaining 5% I use for a wake up alarm. Small functionality for all this hype
I don't use Siri as she's busy 90% of the time and useless 5%. The remaining 5% I use for a wake up alarm. Small functionality for all this hype
I just asked Siri the same things and would not understand a single word I said
Like I said before, there is a learning curve. I text friends, keep a groceries list, take notes, search the web, send and receive emails, all using Siri. I use it dozens of times a day.
I exercise much more discipline with my contacts so I can optimize Siri. I use nicknames much more. I try to enunciate my words more carefully. It helps.
Siri saves my butt every day with reminders. I almost never dial the phone at all anymore: I dictate the number. I've been using Siri since launch and I could never go back.
For me, the Apple commercials are not a stretch at all of Siri's usability.
Of course, there are times when Siri does not get it right, but I've managed my expectations. 98% of the time Siri does for me exactly as I ask.
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To be fair, if you bought and paid for a car that was advertised with "flying" as one of its main features, only to have it fall down from the sky when you tried to fly it, then yes -- you absolutely should sue someone. That is, if you're not dead!
I might be with Apple on this, but I certainly wouldn't use that analogy to make a sarcastic point about it...
Siri is an ambitious feature, implementing a virtual intelligence on this level isn't going to be easy for any company in the world. Now that Siri is being used on a large scale it should start improving more rapidly. Apple is no doubt collecting mountains of data about how people are trying to use Siri and will be able to put that information into future iterations of Siri.
For people who were expecting a fully functional personal assistant with no bugs right at introduction are being unrealistic. Releasing Siri to the public and studying how they try to use it, and what they want to use it for, is the first big step in refining Siri and in determining what it is people expect from Siri.
For people who were expecting a fully functional personal assistant with no bugs right at introduction are being unrealistic. Releasing Siri to the public and studying how they try to use it, and what they want to use it for, is the first big step in refining Siri and in determining what it is people expect from Siri.
Siri decline
When I first started using Siri, I would ask something like, "How wide is the Sea of Galilee?", and get the right answer, today I asked the same question and Siri gave me a list of seafood restaurants nearby.
For some reason, Siri's accuracy is definitely declining. Anyone else notice this?
When I first started using Siri, I would ask something like, "How wide is the Sea of Galilee?", and get the right answer, today I asked the same question and Siri gave me a list of seafood restaurants nearby.
For some reason, Siri's accuracy is definitely declining. Anyone else notice this?
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Siri is usually good at helping me. Only issue is when there is a lot of noise around me. Maybe this guy has a speech impediment or doesn't know how to ask questions simply and clearly. I'd love to see him actually use Siri.
I'd like to know what damages he's claiming if simply returning the iPhone isn't good enough. Siri isn't pivotal to the use of the iPhone, it's a handy extra.
And when I asked Siri to call me a "sexy bitch" from now on, she did.
I'd like to know what damages he's claiming if simply returning the iPhone isn't good enough. Siri isn't pivotal to the use of the iPhone, it's a handy extra.
And when I asked Siri to call me a "sexy bitch" from now on, she did.
It's improved 0% in six months. If anything it's got worse.
How rapid is "rapid"?
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Of course they talk themselves up in ads. They are a company who is in it to make some money. They aren't the only company who does it either. This reminds me of that iPad ad where they shopped the Star Trek image and said something like 'hands down the best image quality' and then actually watching Star Trek on an iPad was hilariously bad and had about a third of the screen chopped off and all squashed or letterboxed in landscape view.
People should know about advertising, though.
People should know about advertising, though.
I haven't been here long, but I've never seen a post with anywhere near this number of up-votes. Definitely struck a chord.
Are you talking about Apple or the people who sued them?
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What was the problem? It wasn't big enough?
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This is completely ridiculous. That's like me suing Apple because my computer crashed.
If they say their computers never crash or don't crash like Windows without providing statistics, I think it would pretty fair.