Siri beta service goes spotty for some iPhone 4S users

“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?

45 Comments

  1. Definitely spotty for me yesterday. I live in Athens, Georgia.

    Amazing how frustrating it was. I’ve already grown so used to Siri that I can’t deal with her not working!

  2. Still not working in San Antonio. This is an awfully long outage, good thing they called it a beta otherwise it’d be getting comparisons to the great crack berry crash of ’11.

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