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87% of iPhone 4S Owners Use Siri Each Month

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Apple has been prominently featuring Siri, the voice recognition feature, in its iPhone 4S advertising. And, for a good reason: it's apparently very popular amongst iPhone 4S owners. 87 percent of iPhone 4S users use at least one Siri feature each month, according to a new study. However, they aren't using all that Siri, which is technically still in Beta, has to offer.

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Making phone calls and sending text-messages are the most popular activities, according to the report, a sign that Siri usage is mirroring how people use their phones more generally. Roughly a third of 4S owners use Siri to place phone calls, send text messages, or look up information daily or almost daily.

Many other Siri services are getting little pickup, however. They include playing music and scheduling meetings. Thirty-two and 35% of 4S users, respectively, said they had never used Siri to perform those actions. Those categories also had some of the lowest percentage of users that did either daily or almost daily.
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The survey, performed by Parks Associates, also found that 55% of iPhone 4S users were satisfied with Siri and 9% were unsatisfied. The rest were somewhere in between. It seems likely that Apple will expand the Siri feature-set going forward, adding more partners to the current Wolfram and Yelp integration. ESPN has been mentioned as a possible partner for serving up sports scores and schedules.

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An important question to ask here is the % of these people who had purchased the iPhone within a month. The reason I say this is because everyone tries Siri when they first buy the iPhone, but by a couple of months into owning it, they may cease to utilize the feature.
 
They wanted to say - using [at least] once in a month.
 
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I know this isn't directly a Siri feature, but it would be great if location reminders were fixed... Some.. year. More on topic, I find that I use Siri mostly for text messaging, sometimes phone calls, and reminders.
 
I use Siri a lot and even I'm surprised by that number. 87% seems high.
 
Siri

I use Siri all the time, i'd use it 5x more if it could get locations in Canada
 
I accidentally invoke Siri a couple times a week in my pocket. And I only ever summone her on purpose for fun and for my alarm clock. I do like the dictation, and would be happy to see that continue on past "the new" iPad, which I'm sure it will. Siri could be useful, but for most people I think it's mostly a novelty.
 
No way.

Only time I ever use it is for a laugh or if I hold down on the button by accident.

It's a gimmick. Would be good on Ipad but not Iphone.
 
I would use Siri all the time...if it didn't require internet seeing as my city is terribad for AT&T internet.

Nowadays, it's just whenever I accidentally hold the button.
 
I would like to use Siri

Siri has never worked for me.
I have done all the suggested actions in the Apple Fora and still get "no network connection".
Bummer.
 
I usually use Siri to get random facts during a conversation or to find out where the nearest whatever-business is and get directions, especially when I'm away from home in a strange city.
 
I've got it switched off. The accuracy was so bad, possibly due to my accent, that I gave up.
 
100% hardly use it.

First off, once a month is rarely using something (unless we're talking hygiene products) but I've got 5 friends with the 4s and other than the first couple of days, almost all have stopped using it.

The excuses are 'it doesn't work for me' to 'I forgot it was there'.

Few use Facetime - mostly because it's clunky and often awkward (or just doesn't work because of poor wifi). I always seem to be the one they test it on that first day, however. :rolleyes:
 
Wirelessly posted

I wonder how much spire/paradox-productions.net skews this data. Probably not much, if it's even detected. Does the data assume all Siri users are on a 4S?
 
For my wife, SIRI was a step backwards.

On her 3GS, she could use the 'Call [XXX]' feature even with little or no data connection.

Now with her 4S, since SIRI even forces those simple commands to be interpreted on the SIRI servers, she cannot voice command a call to be made while driving on country roads with little connectivity.

This is VERY frustrating for her. Why oh WHY cannot SIRI let those simple voice commands be handled on the phone? There is plenty of CPU and memory power to do it.
 
This is entirely expected. Siri is truly revolutionary technology improving the lives of tens of millions of people around the world. I use Siri hundreds of times a day to setup alarms, create reminders, lists, dictate emails, and notes, and get rapid answers to important questions.
 
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