“Charlie Le Quesne was trying out the iPhone 4S at a Tesco store in Coventry when it told him: ‘Shut the f*** up, you ugly t***,'” The Telegraph reports.
“His mother Kim, 39, a nursery worker, told The Sun: ‘The phone was a demo version and was low enough on the shelf for Charlie to have a go with it. He asked it a simple question and we couldn’t believe the filth it came out with,'” The Telegraph reports. “‘I asked for the manager and after staff heard it they agreed to unplug it. I couldn’t see the funny side.'”
The Telegraph reports, “The Siri system addresses the phone’s user by name – using information entered in its contact system. Someone had entered the obscene seven-word phrase as the user’s name, so the phone blurted it out when it answered a question.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: So easy to do and so easy to correct; no need to unplug the unit, you Tesco t***. 😉
Haha, I want my phone to tell me to SHUT UP :p
Ah yes, the Telegraph – representing all that repressed hysteria and back to the good ‘ole days reactionary crap. They love Apple so much they referenced ‘The Onion’ as their source for some anti Apple bile…I kid you not.
Wtf is t***?
Twat
I was thinking turd.
Not in England.
Don’t be such a twit.
ah yes. thx.
Wtf is “wtf”?
Sitting in my local cafe this AM, trying to read, I was certainly wishing that many peoples’ phones would have told their owners to STFU.
And on all my recent flights I wished the same!
In the iPhone’s defense, that kid was an ugly ****.
SP: Can I help you?
C: Yes…do you carry the phone that tells you to STFU?
SP: Why yes sir, we do.
C: I’ll take two, one for my wife and the other for my MF mother-in-law.
ROTFLMAO!
Apple’s next Big Thing!
And the problem is…? >8^)
MacDailyNews Take: So easy to do and so easy to correct; no need to unplug the unit, you Tesco t***.
Maybe it shouldn’t e so easy to do on a demo unit.
“I couldn’t see the funny side”.
Seriously, are you kidding me? Lighten up there Kim….that’s some funny shit and I don’t think it will have any long term effects on Charlie.
Trust me, he’ll hear and say much worse “filth”.
No kidding! Sheesh. Any 12 year old has heard far worse every day in the schoolyard, on the playground, from friends, and from their own parents (who keep telling themselves the kids are sleeping). It’s a clear sign of delusional power-tripping parents when they assert grown children have so-called “virgin ears” and posture loudly about stuff like this.
Yeah, I’m thinking someone’s looking for some free stuff or maybe just some attention.
Good luck Charlie, sounds like you’re going to need it.
Maybe she would have been happier seeing him watching porn on a droid
Great story. Gotta get me one of those.
Happy New Year everyone!
I’m sure the kid will be just fine. In fact… I bet he told all his little buddies about it, in those exact words.
and I bet he wants a 4S even more.
Gotta watch those demo units. Back in the day i worked at a Staples and one of the compaq units came with a free logitech camera. One day we find a video of a 16 year old girl flashing the camera recorded in the middle of the day in the middle of the store.
This is why the Apple store wipes and restores every unit every night.
Coventry? The asshole of the world….
I used to live there….
Its a dreadful place….
I always thought Siri needed more attitude. 😀
Wana bet this was staged?
No coincident that a 12 year old tries our Siri that was rigged, then promptly the press is informed.
The competition is getting desperate.