If Siri doesn't pronounce your name properly, you just tell her how you want her to pronounce your name and she will pronounce it that way from then on. That article was stupid. I can see that perhaps for a celebrity it might be necessary to add the correct pronunciation to Siri's data base so that Siri will ALWAYS pronounce "Bar-BRA" and not say "Bar-Bar-ah" in the normal way it is usually pronounced, but it is not a big deal.
As for "AntennaGate", there never was a problem with the antenna on the iPhone 4 (and Apple never told "folks" to hold their iPhones differently. That was a single email to one user from Steve Jobs in a joke.) The fact was that EVERY cellular phone will attenuate if you cover the antenna with your hand! Apple showed that every single cellular phone maker's manual had instructions showing the correct way to hold their phones, demonstrating that the user was NOT to cover the area where their antennas were located, usually with a red circle with a bar through the image of the user holding it that way. In fact, several technical labs tested every cellular phone and found that Apple's iPhone 4 attenuated LESS than every other phone on the market at that time when you placed your hand on the antenna. They also found that the iPhone was the most sensitive of the phones on the market and could both receive weaker signals that others could not, and was capable of sending stronger signals when covered than others due to the antenna not being inside the phone. "AntennaGate" was purely a marketing creation of Samsung and Google to push Samsung's newest Google Android phone.
The dropping of the signal associated with the iPhone occurred only on ONE carrier, AT&T, and only in areas where AT&T was oversold and could not service the new customers they were getting from Apple with the number of towers they had, or on the periphery of their areas. . . which is funny, because the iPhone in question could still get a signal where all the other cellular phones could not!
When Apple released that SAME, IDENTICAL iPhone to the rest of the world without modifying a thing, i.e. same antenna, the rest of the world had ZERO PROBLEMS with it. No dropped calls, no claims of loss of signal, no breathless stories about problems. Why? Because there was no marketing campaign going on from Samsung/Google.
Samsung expended $14 billion for marketing that year, but only $4.5 billion of that was for advertising expense. Over $9 billion was for social marketing, FUD!
As for fixing "problems for the proles", I have experienced taking a friend to the Genius bar with a two year out of warranty MacBook Pro that was not working properly. The Genius there came back and said they had determined they could not fix it and had decided it needed to be replaced. . . and laid a brand new MacBook Pro on the counter. My friend protested "I can't afford to buy a new one!"
The Apple guy, said, "Don't worry. It's no charge! Give us an hour so we can copy over your data for you. We will erase the data on your old hard drive. Do you want to witness us do that?"
An hour later we walked out with her brand new, $2500 MacBook Pro with a lot more RAM, fully set up, and all of her data intact on the new larger hard drive. . . than the broken system she walked in with, free of charge. With a new warranty!
So much for your "They won't fix it" meme.
As an Apple propagandist, you probably know that it was her last name, not her first name, that she was whining about.