Justin Bieber Threatens Apple Over iPhone Dictation Button Terror

KEY POINTS

•On December 6, 2025, Justin Bieber publicly criticized Apple’s dictation button for stopping his music.
•The complaint came weeks after Apple's senior AI VP John Giannandrea announced his upcoming retirement.
•Meanwhile, Apple’s VP Lisa Jackson and general counsel Kate Adams also plan to retire early next year.

Justin Bieber, pop sensation and occasional design critic, publicly threatened Apple with a 'rear naked choke hold' on December 6, 2025, if their iPhone dictation button beeped and paused his tunes once more. Despite turning off the dictation feature, Bieber somehow conjured the phantom voice note button on his iMessage screen, lamenting the baffling design where the 'Send' button moonlights as a dictation switch. His crusade got a thumbs-up from Ian Silber, OpenAI's head of product design, inviting Bieber to their weekly design critiques, possibly hoping Apple's next AI won’t attack his music flows. All this unfolded amid Apple's chaotic week of CEO-level collapses: John Giannandrea stepping down on Monday, Alan Dye fleeing for Meta's Reality Labs by Wednesday, and Lisa Jackson plus Kate Adams planning retirement by early 2026. Meanwhile, OpenAI, fresh from scooping up Apple's design icon Jony Ive and launching its own app store in October, is merrily shaking Apple's empire. Talk about a week where Siri might be struggling to keep up with actual human drama!