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Samsung to Apple: Without copying your designs, and without Android, we won't survive in the market.

Apple to Samsung: Maybe you should've planned out a better strategy.

Aah, Siri. If you're a hetero-male living in the UK, you can't use terms of endearment or ask it to marry you, or whether it loves you... but you can get Siri to understand you if you don't pretend to be an FBI/Secret Service agent speaking into his/her microphone.

Hold the phone about 10-12 inches from your gob and Siri's "hearing" improves. Also, avoid speaking to Siri whilst holding the iPhone like you're talking to someone on the phone.

I think concern that Apple is compiling information from user queries to Siri are legitimate. "Tracking" is no small matter these days. If Apple doesn't track Siri inquiries it would be a simple matter for them to say so. Absent any such assurance, it's not unreasonable to assume Apple is at least logging Siri usage. There's also the question of what use Apple makes of the information they log. Services like those Siri provides usually come with a price of one kind or another. That the price might be hidden doesn't make it any less expensive, particularly if you consider your privacy to be an expense. Perhaps we should be grateful to IBM for drawing attention to the issue. As the saying goes, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you. Dan Moren may think privacy is a joke, but I doubt most of his readers do.