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Simple Facts

The facts are simple. Try Siri for 29 days and if you don't like it return the phone. Since when do you need to join a class action lawsuit every time there's
a slight irritation you have about a product. There is a limited place for class action, but this one is just BS. Once again greedy lawyers lusting after money are running rampant with class action suits.:rolleyes:
 
While I think the whole thing is ridiculous, all he is entitled to, at best, is the $50 or $100 difference for the iPhone4 or a full refund and a free Samsung phone that looks like an iPhone. And that's ONLY if Siri was the deciding factor for his purchase of the 4s, which is pretty tough to prove anyway.
 
I'm pretty sure my accent is horrible. Perhaps not as bad as Wim Kok but only marginally beter. Despite that, Siri does seem to have little trouble with what I say. I'd say about 95% correct in one go, and the remaining 4.99% on the second try.

Which makes you wonder about the plaintiff... :confused:

My biggest gripe is matching the way Siri mangles names of my contacts. No matter how hard I try I cannot reliably match her pronounciation of names like 'Willem van der Veen" and thus cannot use Siri to use those names for messages or calls. But hey, I expected as much.
 
Siri works real well for me, understands what I say 95% of the time. I just wish that they would finally bring a lot of feature from America to the UK.

One thing I'd like to do is edit or add a contact.
 
It was gazpacho. Not just any tomato soup... It was Samuel L. Jacksons gazpacho.

don't you mean Samuel L Jackson's Mother ****** gazpacho

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They could have returned the unit. But they didn't.

That to me is the real crux of the matter. Same for folks that complain about whatever carrier sucks and yet they still get an iPhone like they think it will magically fix the issue. You had 30 days, there's no open box fee. Why didn't you just return it. If you didn't that's on you.

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It's a cool feature with A LOT of potential, and I know it is still technically in beta, but it's just not quite "there" to be the major selling point of a device.

it's not THE major selling point, just the one that stands out enough to catch folks attention in ads. And they have a logical reason for pushing it into folks awareness. Voice recognition systems need voice samples or they will never improve. Apple could either buy a few million samples, could have asked folks to provide samples and risked someone figuring it out, or could release the system as a beta and let common users actually use it and thus get their samples that way.
 
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Apple has filed a motion to dismiss in a case filed by customers over alleged misleading advertising depicting the Siri technology in the iPhone 4S. The lawsuit, filed in March, alleges that Apple's advertising of Siri doesn't reflect real-world usage. When asked for directions or to locate a store, "Siri either did not understand what Plaintiff was asking, or, after a very long wait time, responded with the wrong answer."

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In a motion to dismiss (via Scribd), Apple attempts to shoot down the Plaintiff's arguments, reports the Wall Street Journal:
Apple continues to heavily advertise Siri and the iPhone 4S. The two latest ads for the product feature celebrities Samuel L. Jackson and Zooey Deschanel using Siri to plan date night and to get tomato soup delivered.

Article Link: In Lawsuit Over Siri, Apple Says the Technology is "Cutting Edge"

Should be fun for the plaintiff to be made fun of the stand by a cunning Harvard Linguist who says the plaintiffs speech patterns and impediments makes them an extreme outlier.
 
Siri? Flawed ...

<sarcasm on>
If you ask Siri what the best smart phone is, she'll tell you it is some Android or Nokia phone much of the time. If that guy had only ask Siri instead of suing, he would have known to return the phone and get something else.
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Eddie O
 
Siri sucks. I like it for setting my timer when I cook. That is the only consistent thing it does. I would not go and sue apple over it though!
 
I use Siri and like it. However, it's response time nowhere near as fast nor as accurate as what is portrayed in those ads.

Neither is the hamburger adds but most of us don't go suing McD because its not picture perfect when you buy one.

Siri works, perfect no, Apple does have some work but it still works better than anything else I have seen. As soon as Apple talks over their map system its going to get even better. Would like it to do much more and that probably what these people want, some kind of AI that understands and does everything they ask, get a life people its a work in progress.

Now if they integrated psycho analysis in Siri many people would be all set.
 
I would agree with this sentiment were it not for the fact that it's the flagship feature, the killer app, of the iPhone 4S.

Yes, it's amazing how well it works. It's much better than the old voice control. It's nowhere near polished enough to be the main selling point (given Apple's reputation and all... were it from any other company I'd dismiss it as typical crap from a consumer company, but this is Apple, who I've come to expect a lot more from. I'm amazed they let it out of their labs.)

I was sorely tempted to return it and resume using my 3GS. It was mostly features introduced with the iPhone 4 that made me ultimately decide it was worth the price and I didn't want a refund and to return to the 3GS.

Agree with this pretty much completely. I gave up with siri very quickly, it's just not particularly good. If it had been an upgrade to voice control and 1/2 way down the feature list I'd have thought it was good. Given that it was, and still is, one of the features they push as special on the 4S, it needs to be a whole lot better than it is for me to think this is Apple quality.

If it's beta, that's fine, but don't push it as the main selling point of the phone until it's finished and out of beta, then again, there was no other particular selling point for the 4S over the 4, so they were a bit stuck differentiating. I still don't think we're near having the kind of technology to do something like 'siri' properly, it's just hard.

Not that I'd sue over it, that's just bloody stupid. I hope they toss that lawsuit right out the door.
 
ARE YOU FREAKIN KIDDING ME???????

1. Some people are just money hungry stupid idiots!

2. Siri is only in beta.

3. Beta or out of beta, NO technology is absolutely perfect.

Gee thanks MR, I spent about five minutes on this STUPID article that I will never get back.
 
I'm going to sue the NBA because I can't dunk a basketball like they show in their games.
The NBA isn't saying you can dunk if you watch NBA games though. A more fitting analogy would be to say you'll sue Bowflex because you can't get as ripped as the people in their ads.


Lethal
 
I would agree with this sentiment were it not for the fact that it's the flagship feature, the killer app, of the iPhone 4S.

This. +10. If Siri was just a feature, it's great. As THE feature, not so appealing. If the plaintiff hired a good lawyer and let the lawyer do the talking, he might of had some form of case. Oh well though... Maybe Apple will stop promoting as much until it is out of beta. I could appreciate that.
 
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