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Siri on iPad 2

jsh1120 said:
Yeah, I know what you mean. I can't get iDrive on my Mini despite the fact that it's available on other models from BMW. They should be ashamed. They need to return to the days when Apple didn't care about making money.
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Ridiculous analogy, not in a good sense.
 
Siri requires more memory than the iPad 2 has. The developer has stated it's not going to be possible.

We won't see it until the iPad 3
 
Aren't the commands for Siri sent into iCloud to be processed and sent directly back to the iPhone 4S. I remember Phil saying something about that in the Keynote. It mentioned it when using Voice to type a Text Message. If this is the case why would the device need more memory.
 
Probably not

Apple hasn't even put its original voice control on the iPad or the iPad 2. I highly doubt they will start with Siri and even if they do they aren't gonna do it halfway into its product cycle. Wait for the 3 at best. But even then they may see it as unnessacary.
 
Wouldn't we already know if Siri could run on the iPad 2? We already have the GM and it looks like it isn't going to be available on the iPad 2. In fact, is there any hint of Siri on the GM at all?
 
Theres a huge financial incentive to get Siri on the iPads and the iPhone 4 so my guess is that the jailbreaking community will figure it out.
 
Although this is based on nothing more than conjecture, i suspect that Siri will be available for the ipad 2 as a future update. In the keynote it was described as beta and that more updates etc would arrive in time. Perhaps Siri for ipad 2 will be one of those update.

It makes sense that it isn't already on the ipad, if it were included in the standard ios5 then it would have been in all the betas and would have subsequently stolen apples thunder. It obviously needed to be a differenentiating feature for the iphone 4S and wouldnt make sense to have had to release code early to developers. To just bolt it on to the firmware build for ipad 2 would not be smooth if you were to do it quickly in time for the GM. Even if they wanted to they couldnt add it to 5.0 for that reason.

In my opinion Siri is something that will be added to the ipad 2 and macs in time, just like facetime was after being announced for the iphone 4 (another new selling feature at the time). It reminds me a lot of the speech systems included in OSX builds of old where you held Esc and could ask it to do things like open itunes (which only worked periodically for me), but was included all the way back in Jaguar if my memory serves. Makes sense to use the technology in more than just the 4S, once it has launched and become established of course.
 
Stetrain said:
Rumor is that the iPhone 4S's A5 chip has 1GB of RAM, and that Siri is very memory intensive. The iPad 2's only has 512MB, same as the iPhone 4.
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Well that's odd as the latest article on macrumors front page reports that the 4S only has 512meg of ram! 🙂
 
DaBrain said:
Well that's odd as the latest article on macrumors front page reports that the 4S only has 512meg of ram! 🙂
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As the various posts in this thread suggest, the actual ram figure for the iPhone 4S has been the subject of considerable conjecture. Conflicting information from several sites. It appears, however, that the 512K figure may be correct.

And while Apple traditionally does not publicize their specs, especially when they don't demonstrate an Apple advantage, the fact that the high end Android phones are coming out with at least 1G ram would suggest that Apple being quiet about the ram in the 4S means it's 512K.
 
They also need to add the clock.app into the iPad 2. Otherwise, saying "Wake me up at 6 PM on Friday" and "Set my timer to 30 min." will not work.
 
GripperDon said:
Yea you are right. BUT that does not make it right!!!!! Apple is more money grubbing everyday. Gone are the day that we helped make them what they are today, Now it is all beacuse they think they are great. Well They need to remember what goes around comes around. 🙁
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You vs. the world bro.

In the past, significant new features have been known to make their way back to the install base when the hardware was capable and the price point on the hardware was high.

Examples include activating N networking on formerly B/G machines once the N standard stabilized and the FaceTime app.

In these cases there's generally a slim fee for the new feature -- slim enough that it's not likely to be a significant revenue generator (like $.99 or $1.99). It's claimed that Apple's "accounting practices" require them to charge SOMETHING for features of this type. Apple's accounting is quite strict (much is said of their old-world balance sheet, as opposed to the Google technique of product development where ROI is almost incidental), but no real differentiation has been made between these "free new, pay old" features and "free always" features like the app store, the cloud, iOS multitasking or itunes. But in general: the features you pay for wind up as major selling points for new hardware, extending the hardware capability in some way, as opposed to simply doing something different with the software. Siri (which basically adds a new input device to the phone) seems like it's arguably in this category.

Given past history and the laundry list of "freebies" in iOS 5, it seems likely to me we'll see Siri as a for-pay upgrade for the iPad 2, and equally likely that we'll never see full support on single core iDevices. If the software worked acceptably with a single core, we'd likely see it in the list of freebies...but since it's being used to sell the new phones, iPad 2 users will probably have to pay some pittance to get at it.
 
cbflip2000 said:
They also need to add the clock.app into the iPad 2. Otherwise, saying "Wake me up at 6 PM on Friday" and "Set my timer to 30 min." will not work.
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Yes, the clock app is a glaring omission that needs to be added just for basic functionality. When at home, I almost exclusively use my iPad 2 and I often have to search for my iPhone to set kitchen timers.

It appears that it's likely the iPhone 4S has 512 ram just like the iPad 2. Plus, whether true or not, I read somewhere the 4S' A5 is slightly under-clocked compared to the iPad. There's no acceptable reason I can think of that Siri shouldn't be added to the iPad 2. I'll be really disappointed if it isn't added relatively soon. I'd pay for it-- if it weren't too much.
 
Can the iPad 2 run Siri? Will it ever come to the iPad?

Just wondering if Siri could run on the iPad 2 with the new processor it has in it?
 
No. It is an iPhone 4S exclusive feature. However, a jailbroken one maybe able to run it. But it would need an internet connection to work.
 
What if you had a 3g iPad? Why wouldn't apple release it for the iPad 2? Some people use their iPad to check there calander and now text message with IOS 5 and with iCloud it could keep all you need on both your iPhone and iPad...........
 
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