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Apple Paid $250 Million for a Siri That Did Not Exist. Its Accusers Priced the Promise at 5.5% of the Phone.

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Every AI post-mortem is about a system that ran and failed. This one is about a feature that never ran at all, and it still has a price: plaintiffs' experts put the enhanced-Siri promise at 5.5% of the phone, or $61.06 a device across 37 million of them. Somewhere in a 38-page motion filed in the N…

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  1. 2026-08-29 00:22 · DEV Community — AI
    Apple Paid $250 Million for a Siri That Did Not Exist. Its Accusers Priced the Promise at 5.5% of the Phone.

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