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Siri Experiencing Significant Outage

If Siri is indeed a beta, then releasing it to the public was probably a bad idea.

Congratulations on your iPhone 4s 64GB, you just have payed $399 to upgrade and be part of our beta ;)

But then again I don't have one yet, but very very soon.
 
TexasTexan said:
If Siri is indeed a beta, then releasing it to the public was probably a bad idea.

Congratulations on your iPhone 4s 64GB, you just have payed $399 to upgrade and be part of our beta ;)

But then again I don't have one yet, but very very soon.
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It is a beta. Just go to the Siri page on apple.com and you'll see the beta tag.
 
Anyone who bought a 4S mainly because of Siri is foolish. It's nothing more than a gimmick. I find it hard to believe that a temporary outage would cause a major hardship for anyone
 
Siri has worked near flawlessly for me since day one. Deep in our warehouses, up north on Georgian Bay ... it just works.

The way I mumble at it I'm blown away at its accuracy.

It is a really cool feature, of course Apple should be promoting it.

I use it many times a day everyday, setting appointments, quick texts, looking up phone numbers.

I can understand anyone experiencing outages being frustrated, but for everyone else - the neh sayers .... quit whining and just use it, you'll be pleasantly surprised!
 
TexasTexan said:
If Siri is indeed a beta, then releasing it to the public was probably a bad idea.

Congratulations on your iPhone 4s 64GB, you just have payed $399 to upgrade and be part of our beta ;)

But then again I don't have one yet, but very very soon.
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That is just a fact of life as an early adopter today. There is no way to iron out every issue of highly sophisticated tech without a decent size test group and the only way to get hundreds of thousands to millions is by using actual buyers once the software is in usable, but not perfect shape. This is true with s/w and h/w.
 
entatlrg said:
Siri has worked near flawlessly for me since day one. Deep in our warehouses, up north on Georgian Bay ... it just works.

The way I mumble at it I'm blown away at its accuracy.

It is a really cool feature, of course Apple should be promoting it.

I use it many times a day everyday, setting appointments, quick texts, looking up phone numbers.

I can understand anyone experiencing outages being frustrated, but for everyone else - the neh sayers .... quit whining and just use it, you'll be pleasantly surprised!
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The whole issue is that people can't "just use it" right now because it's not working for them.

Consider yourself lucky that it works for you I suppose.
 
Siri works intermittently ....
Battery dies within 4-5 hours ......
Intermttent microphone issues ..

This the beginning of the end. Steve wasn't involved in the development of the 4S and that lack of attention to detail is why this is subpar product. Apple is going down the tubes. Time to start looking for a good time to dump the stock.

It was a fun ride while it lasted ..... :D
 
marcusj0015 said:
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; CPU iPhone OS 5_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A334 Safari/7534.48.3)

This is unacceptable.

Hiw can Apple release the buggy slow mess that is iOS 5, release the 4S late, with Siri & Audio bugs?

How the **** did this **** get out?

Apple is no better than ****ing Microsoft. And they charge more.
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Man, a little outage really brings out the crybabies. You wonder how all these complainers made it through their dreary lives up until the point where Siri was released, because apparently it is potentially fatal to not have it available for an afternoon. :rolleyes:
 
Looks like Siri has something to do with the posts on the homepage of MacRumors too - I just went back to the main page and it said "No items found."


Maybe Siri is responsible for BBM being down too...

That's it. I'm not going to use my new iPhone for at least the next 2 seconds in response to Apple launching a beta feature that's essentially wiping out all internet.

:D
 
It's not a software problem...

joeshmo2010 said:
Get over yourself. It's beta software. Beta software is not guaranteed to work without hiccups.
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The problem is not with the Siri software, it's with the cloud infrastructure supporting it. Apple needs to accelerate their data center build out to realize their ambitions
 
No problem here, I've interacted with Siri several times today during the supposed outage.

I do think people need to take a chill pill, it is definitely in beta still, and it just got expanded to handle a ton more international users from the recent country expansion. The load on the servers is probably still doubling weekly at this point, and you got idiot hackers trying to open the service up to iPhone 4/3GS/etc too, despite not as good noise cancelation.

I'm looking forward to getting new features in the future, but at present it is working for me with the functions that are rolled out - questions, calendar, playing music, reminders, calling people, texting, etc. People that have trouble with names etc, you got to correct the phone when it doesn't understand you, if you cancel the interaction it doesn't learn what you were trying to do. That is how the nuance software learns your accent too, you have to try again or it doesn't improve.
 
Collected said:
Maybe it's just me being too critical but I'm not sure a company as large as Apple should be releasing a key feature on a phone in a beta stage of development. I mean they sold SIRI as a key selling point and a reason to buy the iPhone 5.. yet it's still in beta? Hmm..
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Did you not see the *very* obvious "BETA" written on Siri? :rolleyes:
 
I noticed that too earlier when I was trying to send a text message.

Hope Siri comes back. Better yet, program Siri to work without having a network connection!
 
Doc750 said:
Siri works intermittently ....
Battery dies within 4-5 hours ......
Intermttent microphone issues ..

This the beginning of the end. Steve wasn't involved in the development of the 4S and that lack of attention to detail is why this is subpar product. Apple is going down the tubes. Time to start looking for a good time to dump the stock.

It was a fun ride while it lasted ..... :D
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mo' drama fo' yo' mama
 
Doc750 said:
Siri works intermittently ....
Battery dies within 4-5 hours ......
Intermttent microphone issues ..

This the beginning of the end. Steve wasn't involved in the development of the 4S and that lack of attention to detail is why this is subpar product. Apple is going down the tubes. Time to start looking for a good time to dump the stock.

It was a fun ride while it lasted ..... :D
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Steve wasn't involved? What a LIAR you are. You are seriously trying to say that the phone was designed, developed, tested, and manufactured in the MONTH that occurred between Steve stepping down and him dying? Maybe Google spends about 6 days putting together offerings, but your assertion is so absurd that I truly believe your post might be the single dumbest thing I have EVER read on this blog.
 
f00f said:
The ads on TV certainly don't. But if folks do a little research ahead of time before committing to such an expensive product they will certainly be aware that it is beta.

Impulse buyers on the other hand...
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No research needed. It's fact.

iCloud sucks, and Siri works sometimes. No impulse buy here, just purchasing Apple gear because it works.

Get my drift?

Let's call it what it is- Apple has a hell of a time figuring out how to do server based anything.
 
TexasTexan said:
If Siri is indeed a beta, then releasing it to the public was probably a bad idea.

Congratulations on your iPhone 4s 64GB, you just have payed $399 to upgrade and be part of our beta ;)

But then again I don't have one yet, but very very soon.
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Yes, it is beta.

And although the average Joe wouldn't have followed the 4S keynote -- it was introduced as a beta during that presentation.

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rwilliams said:
It is a beta. Just go to the Siri page on apple.com and you'll see the beta tag.
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You are absolutely correct, it is there. However, I noticed that on the main page the 4s is shown, no beta is shown. When you go to the 4s page, no beta is mentioned. Just on the Siri page. The main selling points I have seen for the 4s, Siri, camera, and processor. The average consumer is not going to be happy that he or she should expect two of the three to work.

As another person mentioned, there is a whole lot of people that don't know what a beta is.

I guess Apple could have used that when the iPhone 4 had the supposed antenna issues. The antenna is still in beta, so don't worry. It will be fixed in the final release...
 
tigres said:
No research needed. It's fact.

iCloud sucks, and Siri works sometimes. No impulse buy here, just purchasing Apple gear because it works.

Get my drift?

Let's call it what it is- Apple has a hell of a time figuring out how to do server based anything.
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Now complaing about icloud, which is free and works on all the other devices? Sheesh get a grip.
 
People really are blowing things out of all proportion.

I've seen "Apple = Fail", "This is like the BBM outage", "Thanks for turning my 4S into a 4"

FGS

1. It's BETA software, it won't be perfect. When new features are added, it may impact on the existing service until full testing is complete.

2. The BlackBerry outage (wasn't just BBM) turned people's BlackBerry phones into a house brick that could make and receive calls only. It disabled the internet completely. All that happened with this Siri outage is your voice control went down. Every other feature of the phone works as it should. It is still a useful device.

3. The iPhone 4S even without Siri is much better than a 4. As someone who has owned a 4 and now has a 4S, the camera is worth the upgrade alone. The optics are much better.

Enough of the hyperbole. It's an outage of a BETA product that no doubt will be solved soon. BTW Siri works perfectly here in the UK.
 
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