While the world waited with bated breath on the release of a brand new iPhone 5, Apple's anti-climactic announcement yesterday of the iPhone 4S not only took the wind out of a lot of sails, it also made the company's naming choice for its new intelligent personal assistant look a little culturally ignorant.
You see, in Japan, where Siri isn't even going to be available when the iPhone 4S goes on sale there Oct.14, the word sounds a lot like "shiri" — which means buttocks.
Apple ultimately decided to resolve these six-year-old court proceedings and agreed to pay $15 to each impacted iPhone 4s holder.
The Verge: All devices from the iPhone 4S to the iPhone X are impacted.
Fair play to them. On the ethical hacker side of things I would use the hack as leverage against Apple to continue to support their equipment. As they just dropped support for their iPad mini2’s etc. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with them, they work perfectly fine but are now blocked from receiving security updates etc. So the consumer is forced to purchase a new product that does the exact same thing.
Apple is on the receiving end of a class-action lawsuit from disgruntled iPhone 4s owners. The suit, filed by Chaim Lerman and more than 100 others, alleges Apple's iOS 9 update severely degraded the smartphone's performance both in terms of third-party apps and core functionality.
HAHAHAHAHAHAH that will go down well for those guys.
HAHAHAHAHA!!!
I guess Apple took it in the Shiri with that "innovative" name...