Even if it read "custom" that doesn't mean his homemade, mashed-up janky beats and backflips. As an adjective, "custom" means "done to order for an individual." In this context it could have meant everything from "synthesizes your own unique tones from a set of numerical values interpolated from the day your create the sounds' weather forecast" to "individual tone assignment to each audio-cued event from a selection of available tones." Had Apple written "custom," obviously, it would have meant the latter.
The argument about Siri is the same argument everyone had about video in the iPhone 3GS. The original iPhone would have recorded video with quality acceptable for about any mobile phone camera users in that time frame. There were video recording apps for jailbroken original iPhones. Of course Apple holds features back. Probably for several reasons, including ease of use, quality of experience, server load -- in Siri's case -- and to get you to buy the new thing.
Bear in mind Apple's original iOS5 announcement features and advertising called out double-tap lock screen access to camera, and shutter button mapped to hardware volume-up button as "iPhone 4 only" -- remember, this was before the 4S was announced. But they wound up supporting it on the 3GS, too.
Regardless of what Apple is "up to," Siri has been rejecting requests for me, oh, since not longer after the time these yo-yos announced they "cracked" Siri's protocol. Could be coincidence, could be Apple trying to shore up the hole. I'd just as soon these guys quit mucking around in there so I can have the service for which I've paid. And, no, it's not Apple's fault for leaving the hole. You shouldn't have to fence your front lawn to keep people from tramping across it every morning.
Lastly, the word "beta" as bandied about in public attached to shipping products, at a price or for free, has no reasonable correlation to the lexicon of software design -- which has never been concretely defined without exceptions, anyway. Beta means everything from a fully functional product demo of final-release quality to a broken piece of wreckage that only even barely works a third the time.
Apple calling Siri "beta" is just something to point to when people complain it doesn't work all the time, or that it mangles more words than it should, or some regions get more features than others, or what have you. Beta has become more a marketing word than a software design word, of which "Siri beta" is a fine example.
go on then, explain how me saying that Custom SMS, email tones, etc were not an announced feature for iOS5 then? the only evidence shown was a line that says "set tones for voicemail, email and calender alerts". that did not say CUSTOM tones for SMS, email and custom tones.
You're just hell bent on unreasonably disagreeing with everything i say even when i'm right. Whereas i've said all along that I'm not totally against the idea that Siri could work perfectly in daily use and that Apple just left it out for marketing reasons, hell they probably did as they have done with other features for iOS devices, like video recording, the old voice control, the multitasking, etc. (notice i have already said that in a post either yesterday or tuesday, so i'm not changing my tone). I'm open minded to both sides, and i'm just trying to point out that until it's been tested on a 3GS in daily use, then we will never know for 100% certain what the reason is.
