“Siri is making feminists and abortion advocates angry. That means Apple is doing something right,” Brian Caulfield writes for Forbes.
“‘It is disappointing to read that a tool like Siri is missing the mark when it comes to providing information about such personal health issues as abortion care and contraception,’ NARAL Pro-Choice America President Nancy Keenan wrote a letter to Apple Chief Executive Officer Wednesday,” Caulfield writes. “Apple’s Cook responded quickly. ‘These are not intentional omissions meant to offend anyone, it simply means that as we bring Siri from beta to a final product, we find places where we can do better and we will in the coming weeks,’ Cook wrote.”
Caulfield writes, “Whether or not Siri’s programmers think about women very much, feminists are thinking a lot about Siri. The fact Apple is getting this kind of response means Siri’s engineers got something right. They made people care. With luck, Apple will find Siri in the middle of more conversations like this.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
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