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In Lawsuit Over Siri, Apple Says the Technology is "Cutting Edge"
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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.
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.
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...
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.
Which makes you wonder about the plaintiff...
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.
One thing I'd like to do is edit or add a contact.
don't you mean Samuel L Jackson's Mother ****** gazpacho
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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 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.
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 ...
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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
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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
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.
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.
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.
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
Funny, gazpacho is the one word I have never been able to get Siri to recognize. Must be pronouncing it differently or something.
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.