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iPod touch No Siri on 4G/iOS6
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They are both Wireless technologies running on radio frequencies but they are not the same thing.
Siri requires a lot of processing. 4G iPod Touch's processing unit isn't powerful enough. You can try a third party app called Evi, it's available for most devices.
How they really screwed us over was giving us an inferior OS to what we had.
5.1.1 ran great on my iPod. The new one runs like trash.
This is the same as every new update to operating systems/software on any device (ipod/iphone/computer/etc) when you have several year old technology. If you tried to run OSX 10.8 on a much older computer with less ram and a lower processing speed than what is currently sold you might have a sluggish operating experience. You can choose not to upgrade (I'm sure some people with 2006 macs are still running leopard or snow leopard) if you think it won't run well on your device. This really should not be surprising that it does not run as well as the older IOS that doesn't push the limits of the hardware.
No, not exactly.
You can't know unless you try it yourself.
After you try it and decide that you don't like it, you can't downgrade.
Plus, if you ever need to restore/reset your iPod, you're only allowed to do it till the next highest version. So you're basically forced to upgrade, unlike on a computer.
Also, we can't consider this technology "old" yet as Apple currently sells it.
You can still downgrade - you just need to know how. There are threads and youtube etc. on how to do it, plenty of people downgrading from 6 to 5.1.1. Sure it's not the easiest thing ever but it's not that hard either.
It's 2 years old. Sure apple still sells it, but it has been a long time since it was touted as new or flagship or anything like that. It is sort of the same thing as an iphone minus the phone, essentially. The software is being designed to operate on their most capable devices (iPad 3/iPhone 4s and now 5), which have had huuuge bump in hardware specs since the ipod touch 4g was released, so while they still sell it, it's pretty much to be expected that it's nowhere near as capable as what is really being touted as the flagships of the iOS line.
You can't "just" downgrade. It's impossible for most people.
Irrelevant.
They still sell it; it should not crash when opening settings/messages/ipod/app store etc. I'm not suggesting that it should have all the flag ship features like Siri, flyover, etc. But, it should work with the basic features ... especially those that used to work.
It's not about processing power. The iPhone 4 and the iPod Touch G4 are both too low-end in price for Apple to provide Siri, a free service that costs them lots of money.
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This isn't always true. Lion runs very smoothly on my 2006 iMac. iOS 6 is also fast on my iPhone 4, faster than iOS 5 I think.
I don't think it's about that. The device is evidently slow when you use it. It wouldn't be surprising if it was because of processing speed. $100 will get you a completely new iPod with a bunch of new hardware features (better screen, better camera, 4 times the storage, better processor, more RAM, etc). All those things are worth $100 alone.
But Siri can't require that much processing power. It was an app on the App Store before Apple bought it and before the iPhone 4S came out. If you jailbreak and do some hacking, you can get Siri to work on an iPod touch 4G, and it works smoothly. There are videos on YouTube demonstrating it.
