Class action lawsuit claims Siri doesn't work as advertised - Page 3

I'm going to sue, because Siri doesn't sound like Tricia Helfer and answer to EDI.


(Yes, I am a Mass Effect fangirl)

you know what happened?

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The huge benefit on such a large scale public beta is meaningful test data.

In the lab you could put together a test suite and have the device pass this narrow band testing, but the only way to make such meaningful improvements is to have failures, and drive improvements precisely because it doesn't work. customers should be thanking for the opportunity to "get it right" for them, rather than presume that it should just work.

Fazio: "Siri, Where can I get some pizza?"

Siri: "Sorry, I'm just not that into you."

Yeah, and I totally accept that in some situations its absolutely the way to go (and there is a strong argument that says Siri is one of them).

My point is, it just seems to have become the norm.

To Google, beta seems to mean, "trying to figure out where a revenue stream might come from".

Brilliant! Thank you ...

Apple should be able to fight this one and sue them for the hassle. IT IS FREAKING BETA. BETA MEANS THAT IT ISN'T FULLY FINISHED AND THAT IT IS STILL IN TESTNG PHASE.

Whomever the attorneys are on this lawsuit should be stripped of their license to practice the law and then put in public view at Apple Corporate HQ stripped naked and everyone at Apple and anyone else can urinate on them.

These guys deserve a public urination for this negligence of a lawsuit.

BETA MEANS BETA!!!!!!!!

When was the last time you saw a "beta" used on TV ads to sell a product?

Having just read through the complaint, there is reference to "Beta" but complains that it is in the small print, or appropriately posted on the wall in the disused lavatory in the basement behind the sign on the door saying beware of the leopard.

A quick google of fwank fazio and it is however possible to determine that he has a related false advertisement class action suit filed against apple for representing that Santa is real. This case of course is less newsworthy as clearly apple is in the wrong.

Santa isn't real???

For me Siri is very accurate, she understands me almost perfectly. Better than my American wife. Must be that Northern RP..

If santas not real then I'm suing my parents! ... And that old guy wearing the red suit that smelt of gin when I was five.

Ouch ...

Sorry your wife doesn't understand you. My dogs understand me better than my wife, it's something to do with being married.

How come when I come rolling in from the pub drunk my wife is furious, but the dog is always delighted?

Dogs love vomit, wife's don't.

I don't have a 4S and haven't used Siri so I can't speak to how well it works.

That being said, the fact that it is in beta is irrelevant. Apple doesn't have a disclaimer in its ad that Siri is in beta and what is being advertised is how the final product is suppose to work and it is not at that level yet.

The ONLY consideration is if Apple is misrepresenting the product as advertised. As I mentioned, I have no experience with Siri so I can't say anything in that regard. However, if it is as bad as that guy says it is for a lot of users, then Apple should be sued....and they should loose.

-kpluck

I agree Suri is a Beta program but Apple has been pushing it pretty hard and it really doesn't work!! It has too be the worse product in the Apple line up next to the actual phone part of the iPhone!!

Well, after reading about this lawsuit I can skip my nightly dose of a "Seinfeld" episode.

It this case, someone is trying to act ALPHA over the BETA.


Oh, oh! I know... those are three of the seven dwarves.


Yeah, for sure. Back then Siri would have sounded like Bullwinkle the Moose.

Early 20s would be a good time for Apple ][ to take up where Andrew Breitbart left off.

Siri works well for a beta. I hope the judge tosses this out as a frivolous lawsuit. I don't see any merit in this lawsuit and the guy probably agreed to a EULA he didn't even bother to read.

i hope it's just because the complaint is being published in scribd that there are so many errors, but my favorite part of the complaint alleges


consider me living in sin ...

the complaint is at best, a work-in-progress and the lawyers should be flogged accordingly.

Nonsense!

He's a bigot...he's been called out many times by many people...I can't tell if he's 15 and seeking attention or 75 and stuck in his ways...

That's not quite true. There is an implied warranty of merchantability that comes into effect. If the product doesn't do what it's supposed to do, then the purchaser has grounds for a suit.

HOWEVER:
1. It's up to the purchaser to prove that Apple was in the wrong. Apple can show that 98% of users have no problems (or whatever the number is) as a defense.

2. More importantly, Apple offers an exchange period. If the phone didn't work, the guy could have brought it back for a refund. His total damages would be the restocking fee (if any) and that's all he could sue for. The fact that he didn't do so means that he is not likely to win any significant damages - much like antenna gate where users got a free bumper. When you have the ability to return your phone and choose not to, then you can't claim massive damages.


Wrong. Wives understand their husbands just fine. They just refuse to accept that husbands have any rights to an opinion in any matter that concerns them.

Ok, it took me some time to put it all together, but I remember now. I've had dealings with this Fazio guy before.

It was about a year ago, when I still had phone service with AT&T, and I was having some serious dropped call problems, so I called AT&T customer service. You might think an American company would have American customer service people at the phones.

That's when I got Mr. Fazio on the line. He wouldn't admit it but he was sitting in a Bombay sweat shop at the time. He said, "Hello," and that was the last word he said that I understood. I continued to try and describe my problem and he continued to talk like Gunga Dihin. Finally, At loss for words, and knowing that anything rude I said to him wasn't going to cross the American English to Bombay English, I told him I had to go put some steaks on the grill. Beef steaks, from big tan cows with a hump on their backs. THIS he did understand and began to scream at me in some local dialect which I could understand as well as his English.

I know now why he has a problem with Siri. It's called Karma.

my thoughts exactly. lol


IMO Siri works surprisingly well...yes when my cousin uses it it does miss some things....some easy things...but for the most part it works very very well...

I really hope this case gets tossed out as this sets a horrible precedent for software.

maybe he sounds arabic...

It is not clear if this dude is root of the problem. Siri doesn't work well in

1) environments with noisy backgrounds
2) user has a funky accent that is too hard for even the AI to understand
3) you must ask questions that makes sense, it can not be baby-talk...

This is why it's effing hard to run a successful business in America...you can get sue by some random idiot for no good reasons. Siri doesn't work as advertised? Go get an Android buddy!

Works for me.

Even when I ask it to plot that road trip from the ad.

Fazio probably sounds like Rosie Perez.

Who cares that the Public doesn't know what it means. It's well defined in IP Law.

Siri works EXACTLY as fucking advertised. I've replicated every single command on every ad I've seen and got the same responses. What the hell is the problem?

People refuse to enunciate. They're too lazy to do so.

It's a logical step down from ignoring real social interaction in favor of Facebook, et. al. and sending 160 character messages to people instead of talking to them.

I think Siri works amazingly well. If it isn't responding to commands he must have a speech impediment or be deliberately holding it at arm's length in a crowded restaurant.

If anybody at Apple needs me to give a deposition about how great Siri is here I am.

Is that teckstud?!

I love apple, I'd never sue apple, but the siri software sux balz. Steve jobs would be disappointed, and I wonder why the ceo od siri quit promptly after the 4s release? just sayin.

I am going to sue my car manufacturer because my car doesn't look like its going as fast while I am driving it as when I watch in on the commercial.

While I have not had perfect results with Siri - it is amazing that voice recognition in the palm of your hand is so far ahead of wired headset after hours of training was just a few years ago.

Did the suit disclose what he was looking for? if the location information he provided was inaccurate then how accurate did he expect the results to be?

Or maybe he asked - "find the nearest massage parlor with happy endings" and Siri could't quite figure out what he meant by that.

Maybe the tech industry should follow the lead of the pharmaceutical companies in their advertising.

30 seconds of
The new iPad - twice as power as the previous iPad with the same battery life.

followed by 90 seconds of
The new iPad may cause dizziness (as your head spins) and lightness of wallet (as you spend all your cash on it)... ask your doctor if the new iPad is for you.

could you imagine if every communication we had in all forms from all sources had pages of legal disclaimers around it? Twitter would have to expand its service for 140 charters to 140,000 charters.

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It's not the software, it's you. "You're speaking it wrong". Whatever you want to say.

All of it! Its a gigantic gimmick! When I picked up my car last summer the salesman spent so much time showing me the STUPID voice activation thing. I was so irritated but he was enamored with it. I never use it, and I never will. I can understand people with disabilities may have no choice but for anyone else, it's too buggy and too slow. IBM spent so much building Watson, so much processing power and it still sucked!

The lawsuit is just another lawyer going after some entity with big bucks! This is why McD's gets sued and not the diner around the corner even if their food is loaded with crap. Lawyers go after big money ($100 bil is a lot of cheese), they're looking for a payday and they hope Apple will settle so they get their cut. Forget about making any sense of this idiotic lawsuit! Just follow the money!