Further complaints against Apple because of a postponed Siri – new appointment is

Apple’s trouble about the postponed AI functions for his voice assistant Siri continues: After a first complaint in San Jose, the Apple accused, among other things, two further procedures in California and the Canadian British Columbia have now been launched. It is positive, however, that Apple has apparently set a new, internal release date for the missing features: according to one Report of the New York Times the new features should now be submitted by autumn 2025. That would be faster than the “year” that the group had given itself in a press release for the work.

Laws from the south and the north

The fresh complaint from California against the late Siri comes from Wednesday this week (Case 5: 25-CV-03205, United States District Court of the Northern District of California, San Jose Division). It was submitted to the same court as the first lawsuit. Should a judge agree to actually allow the dispute the level of a class action lawsuit, it can be expected that the lawsuits will be merged.

As with the first lawsuit, two Apple consumers want compensation because Apple is said to have recruited incorrectly. In addition, the group violated competition law because he had operated marketing with Apple Intelligence including Siri upgrades that did not yet exist. Both consumers share that they had not bought a iPhone 16 if they knew that the functions would not come. Apple had previously promised to enable a context-sensitive siri that can access iPhone data, as well as an app control, including the screen, with iOS 18.4 or 18.5. All of this should happen locally and be -friendly. Collective status is also sought here. Apple Canada is said to have operated false advertising and thus led users behind the spruce. Customers therefore paid “illegal excessive prices” for the iPhone 16. This is also about compensation that could reach millions in the United States.

New appointment for better siri

Meanwhile, Apple has tidied up in his Siri team and got the project more on track. It remains to be seen whether this will help. According to New York Times, the better Siri was at least not canceled. Features such as the opportunity to edit and send photos by language are still in the program. Meanwhile, the problems with the project allegedly started at the beginning of 2023 when AI boss John Giannandrea wanted to buy more AI chips for Siri development.

CEO Tim Cook initially wanted to double the budget, but the then CFO Luca Maestri did not participate. Allegedly, only half of the money was approved. Giannandrea is said to have dealt with an increase in efficiency of existing training infrastructure – which cost time. You also used cloud providers such as Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services. In the meantime, Apple had only 50,000 GPUs, most of them half a decade old. That was significantly less performance than the competitors had. There was also trouble between the individual teams-and a struggle about who is having the hat off to the Siri project.