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apparently ios 5 for iphone 4 doesn't carry Siri
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Because people with iPhone 4's were rocking SIRI until Apple took it over and announced it would be for iPhone 4S only. Now people who used to have it don't.
yes that is correct!!! siri is exclusively for the iPhone 4s, how else do you think they would get people to upgrade
No. It wasn't. Not at all. The Siri app and iPhone 4S Siri are entirely different. App Siri just did internet searches for things. iPhone 4S Siri actually interacts with the phone's apps. Sometimes multiple apps at once. (for instance, if you get a text message with a time and data in it, Siri will read the message and then check your calendar to see if you're free.)
The Siri app was a baby version of what we see in iPhone 4S.
This has been known since the keynote.
And it's also well known that just "working" isn't good enough for Apple. It has to work *perfectly*. And for them to get perfection with Siri, it requires the iPhone 4S.
ya it's pretty f'ed up, now my old Siri says it will terminate on this friday...
so not only we don't get the new one, they also take away the old one.
So, you telling me that Siri was that deeply implemented into iOS 4? We knew of the application that was in the App Store. That is like a lite version compared to the iOS 5 one.
wait, you actually bought that crap?
you know only difference as far as Siri is concerned is that iphone4s comes with a faster processor right? but the truth is Siri doesn't need that much processing power to work "perfectly." without going into much software engineering technicality, i can assure you it would work very fine and smoothly with A4 processor.
People said the same about ios4 on the original 3G which effectively turned it into an iBrick.
The heavy lifting for Siri is done on the server side - which is why it needs an internet connection.
If you owned the company, you'd do the exact same thing. I'm tired of people complaining about things not being available on past iPhones. This is how business works, and yes Siri is capable of working on iPhone 4 but without the speedy chips it wouldn't be as efficient. AND YES, they also don't mind that people will buy the 4s simply for that. Stop complaining
And you personally know that do you? I suppose you're one of the people who once insisted multitasking would work on the iPhone 3G. Look at the tech specs for the 4 and the 4S. Observe the processor difference.
Your logic is like saying Final Cut Pro will work on an old iBook with 512 MB of RAM...
And can you blame them? Apple didn't become one of the richest companies in the world by giving out their innovations for free!!
If you want it that much get an iPhone 4S. Hell, I hate it how people expect all the latest features to come to a 16 month old phone. You want the camera to magically upgrade to 8 megapixels as well?
Okay guys, take a deep breath.
1. Yeah, Apple wants you to buy stuff. Are you actually surprised?
2. I've read that a large part of Siri's processing occurs in one of the two cores of the A5's PowerVR GPU. If this is the case, Siri would never be compatible with iPhone 4.
1. Yeah, Apple wants you to buy stuff. Are you actually surprised?
2. I've read that a large part of Siri's processing occurs in one of the two cores of the A5's PowerVR GPU. If this is the case, Siri would never be compatible with iPhone 4.