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apparently ios 5 for iphone 4 doesn't carry Siri
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Removing an App from the App store is NOT removing functionality. Apple nor the developers who put the Apps in the store make any guarantee of how long they will be available for. Removing functionality is removing a feature from the OS.
When Apple sold you the phone it had XYZ features on the phone. You phone now has ABC and XYZ features on the phone so really you should be happy that Apple is so good about adding new features to old devices.
Nobody responding to this thread has the knowledge of the inner workings of Siri, stating that it would work fine on an iPhone 4 is just ignorant, especially given the statements of the original Siri dev who stated they had to take a ton of shortcuts just to get it to function on the 4. Apple has massively overhauled Siri's capabilities and may very well not be able to find shortcuts for everything to make it work.
As for the old Siri app... Why should Apple continue to maintain an old App when they have replaced it with a better system? It costs them money to keep the old Siri going.
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Who is to say we won't see it on the iPad eventually?
The main problem though is that while phones almost always have a data connection, which Siri requires, iPads often do not.
I'm sure if Siri isn't reliant on any specific hardware, the JB community will get it to work on the 4. I doubt it will work as seamlessly though. I don't get why people are so mad about it. I really hope it isn't compatible with the 4 for hardware reasons so people would stop complaining.
False.
Hackers will find a way to implemented on iPhone 4, it'll be on Cydia in a couple of weeks
No. That was Siri when Apple bought it several years ago. The Siri used now is vastly different and more capable software with the same name. It's really a combination of the old Siri and Dragon dictation plus Wolfram Alpha and some other things.
The day Apple announced the 4s they said Siri would only work on the 4s. This is not news and it is not surprising. This sort of thing requires a lot of cpu power.
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I seriously doubt that and if they do it will run like c**p on a slower single core proc plus bog everything else down.
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I was with you until you said this is why Siri is not on the 4.
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You are wrong.
Oh it "only" needs to translate voice to text. Natural voice, not keywords, with hooks to multiple apps which nothing else does.
But of course it does more than that on your phone. The servers don't do everything.
You are pretty desperate to prove your conspiracy theory when you resort to just making things up.
The day Apple announced the 4s they said Siri would only work on the 4s. This is not news and it is not surprising. This sort of thing requires a lot of cpu power.
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I seriously doubt that and if they do it will run like c**p on a slower single core proc plus bog everything else down.
Pink∆Floyd;13574230 said:
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I was with you until you said this is why Siri is not on the 4.
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You are wrong.
Oh it "only" needs to translate voice to text. Natural voice, not keywords, with hooks to multiple apps which nothing else does.
But of course it does more than that on your phone. The servers don't do everything.
You are pretty desperate to prove your conspiracy theory when you resort to just making things up.
It's not just voice to text. The thing literally interacts with a ton of stuff with the phone, that stuff doesn't just get sent to the cloud for processing, it needs to be done on the phone itself with the phone's own software. The part of understanding what you're saying, is the part the cloud handles, but actually sending it back and putting it into effect, is a whole other aspect that I think only the 4S was designed to handle, and even as fast as it seems it still isn't perfect.
I've been impressed with the free app Vlingo. For all those people who are saying that Siri is so improved that it wouldn't work on iPhone 4... give it a rest. Very few (none?) of you have iPhone 4S's to verify just how well it functions and how it all interacts.
What I can say is Vlingo interacts with facebook, twitter, the maps app, text messaging, and other things and does it very well... and I've seen it all work very well on a 3GS and 4 (not sure of hardware differences between the 3GS and 4).
I think some people on this forum will defend Apple regardless of what they do. Let's face it, they don't get it all right all the time. MobileMe ring a bell? How about that revolutionary antenna they put on the iPhone 4 that left them with egg on their faces?
Given from what I've seen Vlingo do on a 3GS, I have a very, very hard time believing that Siri or a jailbroken Siri won't be able to run on a 4 (and maybe even 3GS).
What I can say is Vlingo interacts with facebook, twitter, the maps app, text messaging, and other things and does it very well... and I've seen it all work very well on a 3GS and 4 (not sure of hardware differences between the 3GS and 4).
I think some people on this forum will defend Apple regardless of what they do. Let's face it, they don't get it all right all the time. MobileMe ring a bell? How about that revolutionary antenna they put on the iPhone 4 that left them with egg on their faces?
Given from what I've seen Vlingo do on a 3GS, I have a very, very hard time believing that Siri or a jailbroken Siri won't be able to run on a 4 (and maybe even 3GS).
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Hate to break it to the OP that iOS 5 doesn't carry Apple TV mirroring for iPhone 4.
Hate to break it to the OP that iOS 5 doesn't carry Apple TV mirroring for iPhone 4.