Apple Siri Swears At Nipper

The mum of a 10-year-old boy in Coventry has been expressing her shock following having a demo model of Apple’s iPhone 4S swear at her child.

Kim Le Quesne explained to the Coventry Telegraph that her child Charlie had been out shopping along with his dad in a nearby branch of Tesco, discovered the smartphone in the exhibit and asked the Siri personal assistant software the number of people there were on the earth. The phone replied by means of informing the lad that it wasn’t sure exactly what he was saying, and telling him to "Shut the f*** up, you ugly t***."

"It's verbal abuse," Mrs Le Quesne claimed. "We can’t believe the filth it came out with. He showed my husband what the phone had said to him and my husband found the store manager and said "it shouldn’t be saying that."

Tesco promised the device will be shipped off to Apple for diagnostics, but it looks most likely that some merry prankster had modified the user name on the device to the offending 7 words, in order that the phone would default to the sentence regardless of what the question. Apple is not available for remark over the Christmas period.

Mrs Le Quesne told the paper the woman's child went back to the store the next day and saw the same mobile phone was still on the display case. The paper does not note if the poor lad felt abused, or instead tried it again and dissolved straight into fits of giggles.