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Siri Experiencing Significant Outage
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If you're going to say the iTunes Store... please don't. That's an e-commerce service, not a cloud service.
I used Voice Command all the time, and it worked well from the 3GS to the 4. When I started trying to dial contacts via the headset using Siri, the only difference that I noticed is that it took much longer or frequently didn't complete the task due to network problems.
Never worked reliably for me ever--nor anyone in my circle of friends with iPhones. Worse, it would go right ahead and call the wrong person and I had to rush to stop it. Siri? Recognized just about everything I said right from the get go.
I think there is a reason VC doesn't kick on when there is no access to Siri.
Personally, I think VC was only slapped on to make the iPhone "hands free" as some states were enacting laws requiring it.
Michael
Siri up and down for me here in Arizona at the moment.
What's really bothersome is how long it takes for her to say there is a problem.
I have also noticed there is a two-stage delay: one delay for the voice recognition and another to retrieve Siri's result. Right now I can see what I wrote was clearly recognized (call my daughter), as it is on screen but I am still waiting.
OK 30 seconds later it asked me which phone number for my daughter. I tapped mobile and now another LONG delay.
After that long delay Siri said she could not help me.
For sure THESE scenarios should have some kind of fallback scenario. It doesn't take much cloud processing power when I literally tapped the phone number to use for my daughter. There was no reason that could not have triggered the phone call right then and there. Ugh.
Michael
What's really bothersome is how long it takes for her to say there is a problem.
I have also noticed there is a two-stage delay: one delay for the voice recognition and another to retrieve Siri's result. Right now I can see what I wrote was clearly recognized (call my daughter), as it is on screen but I am still waiting.
OK 30 seconds later it asked me which phone number for my daughter. I tapped mobile and now another LONG delay.
After that long delay Siri said she could not help me.
For sure THESE scenarios should have some kind of fallback scenario. It doesn't take much cloud processing power when I literally tapped the phone number to use for my daughter. There was no reason that could not have triggered the phone call right then and there. Ugh.
Michael
Not surprised
Steve Jobs motto always was about making product as simple as possible: one button mice, two button remote controls, castrated FCPX etc. Well, one can get with over-simplificaton from time to time by claiming that the product is revolutionary and magical. The reality is that in tech world many things are complex for a reason. I suspect that Apple tried to simplify the architecture of their server farm(s) and it did not go well. And now they are paying the price.
APple is good at making simple iToys but not so good when it comes to something more complex (like cloud computing).
Steve Jobs motto always was about making product as simple as possible: one button mice, two button remote controls, castrated FCPX etc. Well, one can get with over-simplificaton from time to time by claiming that the product is revolutionary and magical. The reality is that in tech world many things are complex for a reason. I suspect that Apple tried to simplify the architecture of their server farm(s) and it did not go well. And now they are paying the price.
APple is good at making simple iToys but not so good when it comes to something more complex (like cloud computing).
It's funny how everyone is mad that Siri went down, but no one is quite realising that Apple is receiving and collecting everything you tell Siri (all your nice reminders, text messages, e-mails) in their cloud infrastructure...
If I were paranoid, I'd quite start thinking about what I tell Siri in the future...
Good point! Apple could really profit off selling that information, I bet that is their main source of income, not satisfied customers buying new hardware at ridiculous rate.
I'm buying a Google phone. They don't collect or sell my personal information.
After Siri Goes Dead, I wonder if iCloud is another challenge for Apple like MobileMe.
Here's a writers perspective:
http://goo.gl/QG4Sr
Here's a writers perspective:
http://goo.gl/QG4Sr
Too bad that Apple didn't program Siri with all kinds of cute responses that all mean that "the Icloud is down, I'm stupid".
Siri is a beta service so expect it to get better as Apple comes to terms with the number of requests people hammer the server with and add more servers to iCloud.
But, Apple's ads aren't emphasizing that Siri is beta - someone buying an Iphone might actually expect Siri to be functional.
