The tech is clearly there but they decide to keep it out to entice iPhone owners to upgrade. That's how Apple ropes you in with incremental updates and hype.
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Disappointed Siri is unavailable for iPhone 4
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You might be right, but then again you might not be. Siri seems like something that COULD be really intensive on the CPU and the A4 chip might struggle with it. I really don't know though.
Clearly?
Which parts of the A4 chip are the same as the A5 chip and how does that relate to how Siri uses it?
I'm glad that's clear for you, because I really have no idea how all that works.
most i agree with besides the 3GS facetime. The appeal with facetime is the front-facing camera
I used to be on that hype about apple leaving stuff out so you will upgrade. like no video recording on the 3g, but 3gs could.
It's probably there, but Apple won't put in software on a device that can't handle it to their expectations.
I had a jailbroken 3g and video recording was subpar.
I think they left it out for a reason, but maybe when the dev teams jailbreak ios5 someone will do a side by side comparison with SIRI.
It's probably there, but Apple won't put in software on a device that can't handle it to their expectations.
I had a jailbroken 3g and video recording was subpar.
I think they left it out for a reason, but maybe when the dev teams jailbreak ios5 someone will do a side by side comparison with SIRI.
Agreed with others here. Just because the iPhone 4 is likely technically capable of running Siri, that does not necessarily mean that the user experience will be the same. Apple is very attentive to the user experience on their products.
there is NO OTHER tech company that releases incremental upgrades in hopes of selling a product to a customer and making $$$$$!!!!
Apple is the ONLY company that does this!!
And making money is a bad thing?!?
I think it is a mixture of it probably not running as well on the iPhone 4, plus Apple wants a standout feature for the iPhone 4S.
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There could be a technical reason for Siri only being made available on the iPhone 4S but it's most likely just Apple being Apple, ie. Siri is the unique selling point of the iPhone 4S so it doesn't make business sense to make it available on other models as it would hinder sales.
there is NO OTHER tech company that releases incremental upgrades in hopes of selling a product to a customer and making $$$$$!!!!
Apple is the ONLY company that does this!!
Well let's see.
Samsung releases Samsung Vibrant Galaxy S for t-mobile usa last July 2010. They took out the FFC that was supposed to be on the phone.
In Feb 2011. Samsung released the same exact phone and called it the Galaxy S 4G (this time with the FFC that they purposely left out (the original one had a slot for the plus added hspa plus). that's all.
So Samsung was even worse than Apple with it's re-release of the same phone.
uh, siri has to use the A5 to process what you say and then send the request to the server. You think your sending a wav file of what you said over the net to the siri servers? The iphone 4 struggled plenty with some of the games and other apps out there, what makes you think siri would be a smooth experience?
I don't know if you guys have seen the videos, but on the 4S, sometimes it takes a second or 2 to register what was said and to give an answer, maybe even 3 seconds sometimes.
The 4S seems to do everything at least 1.5x as fast as the 4, so imagine if you were on the 4, and it took 4, 5, or 6 seconds to get an answer to something using Siri. It'd get old QUICK. I wouldn't sit there and wait for it.
The 4S seems to do everything at least 1.5x as fast as the 4, so imagine if you were on the 4, and it took 4, 5, or 6 seconds to get an answer to something using Siri. It'd get old QUICK. I wouldn't sit there and wait for it.
Good point.
Now can someone please help me figure out why I can't get Adobe Creative Suite 5 to run on my Windows 3.1 machine?
there is NO OTHER tech company that releases incremental upgrades in hopes of selling a product to a customer and making $$$$$!!!!
Apple is the ONLY company that does this!!
Actually no. The worst one is Nintendo...
Remember... Nintendo DS, then DS lite, then DSi, then DSi XL... then 3DS etc.. rinse and repeat...
Let's not forget... Gameboy, Gameboy pocket, Gameboy light, Gameboy color, Gameboy micro...
All with special limited edition colors with a specific game lol....
The dev team has said they'd have to pirate, which they obviously won't do. Unless they figure out a workaround, iPhone 4 may never see it.
there is NO OTHER tech company that releases incremental upgrades in hopes of selling a product to a customer and making $$$$$!!!!
Apple is the ONLY company that does this!!
Seriously people, you don't recognize sarcasm?? He even put in several sarcasm smileys to make sure you got it!!
jeez ... he answers the OP, makes a good point, and adds humor all at the same time and it's over half your heads
Technically Siri is still beta, Apple's own words. Siri relies on Apple's cloud servers to process your voice and send back the results. What better way to roll out Siri then limit it to a brand new device? The impact of millions of users installing iOS5 on existing devices and using Siri all at once could tax the service to the point of being unusable and give it a bad name.
I wouldn't rule out seeing Siri on other devices later on.
I wouldn't rule out seeing Siri on other devices later on.