My thesaurus does not list perfect as a synonym for either revolutionary or magical.
— ✪ in shifting the blame for great expectations from Apple to journalists and pundits in a post titled "Promises"... which, if you think about it, would include ✪.
I tried the same things Scott Forstall demoed on stage. They all worked, as promised.
— ✪, linked above.
I feel sorry for ✪ as he appears to always wind up that those magic shows where the tricks don't work, where the curtains fall away at the wrong time and you see when they switch the people in and out. Generally when a trick breaks down, it loses its wonder and magic. It's just not a good magic trick if it doesn't work.
What ✪ is doing here is itself a bit of a magic trick; he's trying to divorce the connotations of the PR words like magical and revolutionary from its denotation — the literal meaning — and then defending Apple as though he was a contract lawyer. Though I doubt anyone would win a case arguing "But your honor, I didn't promise perfection. I only promised magic." Anyway, if you were to look up magical in the thesaurus or dictionary, you see it is surrounded by positive words. One definition is "giving a feeling of enchantment". If you want to look up the definition of enchanting, it is "to attract and move deeply or rouse to ecstatic admiration".
I don't think you can move someone deeply or rouse to ecstatic admiration with something that is broken. Which Siri was for a couple of hours yesterday.
Update: Apparantly the Appleverse has its own set of reference books to govern language. Maybe I just don't speak Apple. Also, this shows why we've tied for first in the Apple-hivemind Fact-Correcting Championships.
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