When a company's vision outruns its delivery, the law becomes the measure of the distance between promise and reality. Apple, having unveiled a reimagined Siri at WWDC 2024 with considerable fanfare, found itself in court after the features it demonstrated didn't arrive until two years later — a gap that a class action lawsuit translated into $250 million. The settlement, approved in July 2026, offers eligible iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 16 buyers between $25 and $95 per device, a modest financial acknowledgment that anticipation, once sold, carries its own obligations.