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Bapple, Pink

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Any of you out there who have used Apple’s Siri know all too well that it gets about 10% of the words stone-cold wrong (often, weirdly, changing pronouns to the other gender) which can lead to some bizarre communications if you don’t double-check before sending. There have been instances I’ve wanted to schedule meetings with folks but instead told them what I was going to do to them with a fork. In any case, it seems Apple has realized that Siri sucks out loud, which is causing a big exec shakeup. I bought puts yesterday on the heels of my Sliced post.