“Reports circulated on Thursday afternoon that Apple’s ‘Siri’ voice-activated iPhone assistant is experiencing service outages for customers across the country,” Mike Isaac reports for Wired.
“Upon Apple’s service going down, Twitter exploded with messages from frustrated iPhone 4S users and lookers-on,” Isaac reports. “In Wired.com’s San Francisco testing, the Siri service was spotty at best, functioning properly only intermittently. Still, others located in the Bay Area reported that the Siri service is functioning properly.”
Isaac reports, “Apple debuted the service last month with one major caveat: The company considers Siri a ‘beta”’ product, a fact which should be kept in mind if the service stumbles in its first few months.”
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MacDailyNews Take: We didn’t experience any spottiness with Siri today or just now when we checked again. Did you?
Mine worked for about one hour this morning. I am in the East Bay (San Francisco). However it hasn’t worked for the past several hours. I get an error message that it can’t connect to the network. I even reset my network settings and did a number of soft resets, but to no avail.
Siri’s been a little slower to respond today but no dropouts.
Any new technology goes through an S curve of adoption. Because of Siri’s popularity, users already expect it to take it for granted, the way they take google search for granted.
There’s a sense that as soon as you get it, you rely on it, and expect it to just be there, as if it were a mature product.
The S curve is almost surpassed by a BACN curve. Viewed on a TOST graph, adjusted for PBAJ, adoption rates would be off the proverbial chart!
WTF!!!
Simply stated, he should have just went with the w00t! curve. He was just being fancy.
I just made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on toast with bacon but it didn’t help. Siri is still down.
FTW.
Siri was a mess today. Worked a little this morning, then went down aroun 10 and stayed down until about 20 min ago. I spoke to apple at length, who said they were aware of it, and laid hopes on a Siri software update to be installed on their end in the next 2-3 weeks.
Beta indeed.
You are correct, MacWhisperer. It is beta software. So we have to take it for what it is.
Siri was too tired working all the recent weeks with no vacation.
After two weeks of waiting, my iPhone 4S finally canures iphone has to offer. e yesterday.
Siri worked great for that afternoon. But today, it keeps saying it has trouble connecting to the network.
I hope they fix it soon. In the meantime, I guess not all is lost and I can still enjoy the other features iPhone 4S has to offer. It’s functioning better than my 3GS so, its great for now 🙂
Yes, Siri kept telling me “I can’t do that, Dave.”
But, what are you asking her? To wax your butt?
I had a new response for me, words to the effect: I can’t answer any questions right now. Please try again later.
I don’t remember the exact reply.
I’m in Pacifica, about ten miles south of San Francisco, on the beach.
Mid morning I saw connection problems too. Siri is back now, but with long delays.
Siri keeps saying “Uh oh, there’s a problem. Can you try again?” here in NYC
I have been having issues all day.
Spotty for me all afternoon in Delaware and Philadelphia area – frustrating but is a beta after all.
I was getting “Cannot connect to the network” messages around 1pm eastern time today. Lasted about half an hour.
Siri is devoting most of her time working with skymet, they hope to go llive December 21 2012
I had problems with Siri today (in Missouri), and this is not the first time. I could be wrong, but I thought maybe Apple had released the iPhone in a few more countries recently and its computers were overwhelmed with new users getting to know Siri.
… Which made me feel good, since I’m an AAPL investor!
: )
Frasier goes down!
Siri kept giving me the “can’t connect to the network” error all day.
I just rebooted and it works fine now. Might want to give that a try
Im in cincinnati, ohio and i noticed siri wasnt working earlier today but no big deal i just thought it was cause she was overloaded or something. Its working now and some people can be such babies IMO
Siri-gate!?
It sounds like Phase I of Tim Cook’s takeover plan is making an impact.
Here in South Texas, Siri was down most of the afternoon.
Spotty service in Phoenix Az area. “Cannot connect to network”. Ok on wifi.
Siri has become self-aware. Judgement day is coming!!
Siri not working in Seattle since noon. I miss her.
Me too. Fort lauderdale, Florida. No Siri for two days. “can’t connect to the network”.
Curious… Detractors from Google and MS scoff at Siri saying it’s eye candy and not that big of a deal because the phone needs to be a communications device or some other nonsense.
Question… Everyone here who posted their experience with Siri today, did you just use Siri today just to add input to MDN’s take requesting your experience OR are you finding Siri as a feature as one you are finding out ‘how did I get along without?’ Thank God for Siri!
Interested in knowing if iPhone 4s is better than 3GS or 4 thanks to Siri!
I found Siri… She was in a tent with “Microsoft Bob” interfacing 1’s and 0’s at ‘Occupy Wall Street’ in New York! MS Bob… I hope Siri used some protection! Like AppleCare+ : )
Siri’s not working as demonstrated at the big roll out. Regardless of the caveat that it is ‘beta’ none of us will tolerate anything Apple that doesn’t just work. This is a big disappointment so far and I fear we are nearing the moment when the main stream media will begin to say that Apple has failed with Siri and it’s the first of more to come in the post-Jobs era.