Apple settles for $250 million #Vergecast

Apple settled a class action lawsuit for $250 million that is based all around essentially the promises Apple made about Apple intelligence and Siri doesn't work. Fake feature. That was an ad with a celebrity that Apple ran for a feature that didn't and doesn't exist. — Siri, what's the name of the guy I had a meeting with a couple of months ago at Cafe Grenell? — You met Zach Winggate at Cafe Grenell. — Like we just shouldn't forget how wild that fact is. If you bought a phone, I think it's basically between like June of 2024 and May of 2025, you can get $25 potentially up to $95. We'll see how it goes. Probably $25. Congratulations to everybody on your $25. This is a continues to be a bad look for Apple. — Absolutely. I mean, you know, WWC is right around the corner. I think we're expecting to see a bunch of this Google deal pay off. I think we're expecting to see the new Siri. We'll see if John Turnis can pull even more rabbits out of a hat here. But it is true that at that time the conventional wisdom was that chat bots would displace the iPhone and if Apple didn't have an AI narrative that it would be in some kind of existential danger. So they just concocted one. They never shipped it to the point where they're paying millions of dollars out hundreds of for making fake ads.