“Apple has said the company has no current plans to implement Siri into any other iOS devices besides the iPhone 4S,” Jake Smith reports for 9to5Mac.
Smith reports, “Apple confirmed the news in an email to developer Michael Steeber. ‘Engineering has provided the following feedback regarding this issue: Siri only works on iPhone 4S and we currently have no plans to support older devices.'”
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Bastards!!!!!
Oh wait, my 4S is on the way 👍
Still waiting for mine. I should’ve ordered it at the Apple Store.
I Would have ordered it through apple, I have been going back and forth on either buying it full price or going the 2 year deal again.
Walked into the AT&T store to discuss the whole thing, not 100% sure which way i’d go… and not planning on buying it that day either.
Walked out with a very expensive receipt lol.
I’ve had my 4S for 4 weeks, but it’s still sitting in a box waiting for the jailbreak boys to get their s—- together.
What an apt handle. At least you did one thing right.
congratulations on robbing yourself on the wonderful joy that is siri! ive had my 4S for 3 weeks now… you know it was people like you that pissed me off as a tech support agent…. you jailbreak your device than bitch and complain when it doesnt work… my ipod touch died 2 months after jailbreaking ever since than ive decided to stop being a cheap bastard and just pay for the apps… you want a device that allows you to download anything for free (but can give you viruses because those apps dont go through the same screening process that paid for or appstore approved items do) go get an android
its people like you who piss me off as a jailbreaker. Who says jailbreakers are pirates? Cydia has some great PAY apps and also free apps that big brother won’t allow in their app store. Get a clue.
After reading more closely I can see why you think jailbreakers are pirates… seems that you yourself are a thief so you assome everyone else is as inept and dishonest as you are.
Yeah, keyword currently, cause with the problems they’re already experiencing from the relatively few iPhone 4S users, an extra 200 million people banging on those Siri servers nonstop is not a good idea right now.
you have to understand that everyone with an iPhone 4S right now… is probably using Siri a ton of times just to play with Siri, show Siri off… Put down fragmendroid users etc.
I know I will!
I don’t even want to know how many times I’ll ask Siri to Open the Pod bay doors in the first week I have my iPhone 4S lol.
Before any one gets started.
There is a hardware issue.
The placement of the two mics in the 4S combined with some slick software allows for noise cancellation which messes up normal speech.
The old iPad for instance does not have this. Part of the reason Siri like voice recognition is relatively poor on other hardware is do to the background noise picked up.
Apple’s solution is to just sell better hardware going forward.
One flaw in your thinking: Siri works via Bluetooth.
Siri works like ish in my $100 pair of Bluetooth jaybirds. My dumb ass fault for nott getting noise cancellation headsets. I’m in a loud work envirment also. But the apple headsets pick everything up quite well. But I go through those to quick. Whether from being used 9 hours a day or sweat. They just don’t last more then a few months.
If you’re using that headset on an iPhone 4s I think it still does noise cancellation. It just uses the mic on the phone as the second mic. Any noise the mic on the phone senses thats different then the noise coming through the headset, it cancels.
not only Bluetooth, but I just saw you can also have Siri turn on when you put the iPhone to your ear, in settings.
“Settings > General > Siri, and turn on the “Raise to Speak” option. Now, whenever you raise your iPhone 4S to your ear, Siri will automatically activate, allowing you to talk with Siri and listen to responses through the earpiece.”
This is assuming the phone is not locked at the time.
It also doesn’t respond half the time I raise it to my ear. And yes, I’m holding it right 🙂
You too? So it’s not just me or my phone.
I think it’s something with the proximity sensor not being turned on when it should be. When Siri fails to activate, the screen also stays turned on.
——RM
There’s two mics on the iPhone 4. Your point is moot.
Exactly – the 4 and 4s have a mic on the bottom like all the earlier iPhones, and the 4 and 4s have the second noise canceling mic on the top next to the headphone port. Siri does work via bluetooth – and most good bluetooth earpieces have at least two mics for noise canceling as well.
Noise cancellation is a plausible excuse, nothing more. If you use Siri in a quiet environment, noise cancellation is redundant, as is the need for two microphones. The only reason is Apple is trying to restrict Siri is to goose sales of a rather unremarkable iPhone 4S which falls farther & farther behind in the hardware stakes with every passing month. I mean 512MB of RAM. What is this? 2007 all over again?
I’m starting to think maybe you don’t like the iPhone 4s. Just a hunch. I was reluctant to get one without a bigger screen at first. But that only lasted till the day the pre orders started.
There is nothing in the iPhone 4S that I would consider remarkable or keeping pace with technological changes in hardware specification. Blackberry phones were game changing…in 1999…but in 2011…not so much.
There is a clear and present danger in being stuck to past precepts that worked in the past before. But in tech, the past is no indicator of the future. The future is bigger screens, more vibrant screens, which other manufacturers don’t seem to have a problem releasing.
The iPhone 4S brought nothing new to the table. In 12 months they were able to substantially revise the iPad 2 and move its form forward towards a slimmer, streamlined form. In 16 months all they did with the 4S was to repeat a design.
If losing Steve Jobs means that Apple has lost its innovative spark then the future looks bleak indeed
Ever heard of the iPad 2? There’s your iPhone with the larger screen.
I believe a huge number of people are interested in the 4S for the vastly improved photo and video-taking capabilities. 1080p video with hardware stabilisation, and well as dramatically improved low-light photos simply *cannot* be overestimated as a selling point.
Since recently purchasing an iPad2, I have literally zero interest in a form factor that accommodates a larger screen. I tried out a friend’s Galaxy and it’s cumbersome, feeling over-sized in my hand, against my face (when making a call, obv) and in my pocket.
Apple are not about spec races, and if you believe Steve Jobs had no hand in the 4S (as your last comment suggests), then that’s astoundingly naive. The camera and Siri on the 4S put it streets ahead of its competitors – and that’s *before* you take into account Apple’s App and iTunes stores.
The speed n Siri is huge … But the camera for me is the killer app. It’s sharp, color accurate, AMAZING low light for a phone and the video recording is super smooth.
The camera on its own would be enough for me to upgrade.
As phones get more and central to multiple tasks for work, iCloud and more, the speed will be more and more important.
Less people will care about the lack of the number 5 and a larger screen (making it more cumbersome) or a new design.
The iphOne 4s is well worth the $, gets out of your way to get things done, lasts all day and looks great. And millions agree – but if you don’t as you have been so vocal about since it’s launch that’s fine. I just think you’re wrong plain n simple
Sorry Nutty my boy but your argument only worked when people hadn’t seen and used the 4S yet. Now that people have their hands on them, they know what it’s like to use em. They’re great phones. I love mine and don’t regret getting it at all. Specs don’t matter near as much as the experience of using the phone.
Android phones for instance, need more then 512 mb of RAM because their OS sucks so much. On an iPhone 512 is more then enough.
Why would anyone pay any attention to what Balmers Asshole has to say.
You sure forget a lot of improvements over the iPhone 4 when you say no improvements in hardware specs. iPhone 4S is much more than tech specs. Android is tech specs.
iPhone is software. Always was, always will be.
As for you, you are so full of crap, your eyes are brown.
Hahahahaha. Your stupidity is staggering.
You actually think Jobs had nothing to do with the iPhone 4. Car manufacturers know well enough to not change a beautiful design every year. Why should it be any different in tech?
So, because they didnt change the shape and put an awkwardly large screen on the device it’s not remarkable? Again, hahahahahaha.
For iOS 512 MB is about the same as 1GB in Android phones due to vastly different applications memory management and multitasking principles.
Also, iPhone 4S is remarkable is many key areas — times faster performance, better and times faster camera, universal broadband, less death grip effect comparing to competing devices.
I wish that PR were true. But it’s not. Safari on my iPad crashes regularly on iOS 5. Even with a single tab open. It’s the result of running out of memory. What is it about seamless user experience again? Not happening for me.
Flawless on my iPad 2, with multiple tabs and apps open.
512MB.
I have never had Safari crash on my iPad 2, with iOS 5. And I always have multiple tabs open. Something must be wrong with your system.
Bullshit, and you know it.
Flawless on my original iPad. Has never crashed. Not once.
The megahertz myth again? Ugh… I thought we were done with that. Can Apple maintain an RDF without Steve Jobs?
Truly silly, you can’t compare hardware (ram) on different systems with different OS’s
Linux is a sloppy memory manager (and thread manager) as compared to BSD. In addition ‘roid is not (or at best not well) optimized for specific hardware (and iOS is HIGHLY optimized) comparing RAM figures is a useless.
Similarly Samsung’s new “dual core” processor phones could barely best (and in many cases were slower) than the iPhone4 (single core and 1 1/2 year old) Additionally the 4S leaves them in the dust, and this in many cases with a processor that is clocked far slower.
You’re right! iPhone’s should have shipped with 256GB of RAM!
The reason you’re argument falls flat, is because Apps run perfectly well with the RAM shipped in iPhone.
You’re playing the “spec game”, ‘cos that’s all you have. Your Straw Dog doesn’t bark
Suri also works with my Zagg earbuds. (wire, not bluetooth)
This has never happened to me (Safari,iOS5,iPad2). The only app that regularly cops out is iOS AppStore.
[Digression]
I wish AppStore would support gestures, rather than old-style scroll triangles (cf. half-baked touch devices à la stand-alone TomTom).
Further, I wish AppStore would allow more flexible searching. It is sometimes even tedious finding an application you already know.
[/Digression]
For those who have bashed Apple over this, try to remember that Siri did not exist until the recent beta and was *never* promised for the iPhone 4 or iPad 2.
Apple customers should truly appreciate the fact that Apple products tend to improve with time rather than diminish because Apple generally enhances functionality over time (usually at little or no cost to the consumer). What other company provides that kind of benefit? A lot of companies don’t even bother to fix all of the flaws in their products, much less improve them with regular software updates. I just can’t get excited by the entitlement mentality that demands that Apple provide Siri functionality to all potentially capable iOS devices. If you want Siri, then buy an iPhone 4 or other upcoming iOS devices.
It is funny- why bother putting out beta? people don’t even know what a beta is or it’s purpose. The way people are acting, it’s a full fledged feature that’s been around for two years and has become indispensable. siri is down? oh well.. I just set the ten minute timer myself. fuck sake.
And all this over some developer saying apple told him they have no plans to tell him shit until they are ready. when does apple tell developers anything in advance? NEVER until they release it to them.
Don’t be fooled by Applespeak. They said Siri won’t come to any other device AT THIS TIME. They left it open to make it available at a later time if they choose.
^ finally – someone shows the logic behind the email.
People forget that Siri is beta. It requires a lot of work to make it universally applicable. To muddy the water by putting it on other products will needlessly complicate matters.
Apple was brave to put out a beta software product in restricted markets. Patience will be rewarded and in the end we’ll have a fully formed system that is usable everywhere.
“People forget that Siri is beta. It requires a lot of work to make it universally applicable. To muddy the water by putting it on other products will needlessly complicate matters.”
So it takes a lot of work to get it on iPhone 4 running the same version of iOS? Talk about fragmentation, iOS must be spaghetti code.
He didn’t say it would be work get the OS running universally. He said Siri, a program on the phone. Siri is in beta right now. Trying to get that beta running on a slew of other devices right now instead of just focusing on the 4s would be silly. Better to let the beta conclude then see if it can be put on other devices.
I just get the idea that Balmer’s Left Nut does not even own an Apple product. It’s hard to own and use an Iphone without being pleased with it. Nothings perfect and Iphones are evolving. As far as I am concerned it is light years ahead of Droids or blackberries. The same thing can be said for all Apple products….The competition is allways behind and trying to catch up.
Has anyone else noticed that Siri seems to have got dumber over the last few weeks? When I first got my iPhone 4S, I was blown away at the answers Siri used to find. Now, it usually says, “Would you like to search the web for that?”
By definition a Beta product has to have a limited distribution. The intent is to iron out the bugs.
Because of direct costs and product canibalisation, I would expect Siri to remain exclusive to new devices for a while and maybe appear as a paid app for older devices later (pricing of that would be an interesting dilemma).
Expecting Apple to add such a bug feature on older devices for free is simply not reasonable.
Definately or else whos buying their 4s…..
Apple still thinking about selling 4S right now. When it’s time to kill Google, they not only release it on all iOS device, but will open it for Windows also. So people won’t use Google to search again.
we currently have no plans to support older devices
OH NOES! That means no Siri on iPhone 4 forever and never!!!
Wait…
Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Apple at one time “currently have no plans” to…
— Release a Windows version of iTunes?
— Support video on the iPod?
— Move Mac OS X to Intel?
— Sell the iPhone on Verizon?
Dude. “Currently” means “now”. When “now” becomes “then”, things may change.
If I was Apple, I’d say the same thing. If they admitted that they might bring Siri to iPhone 4 / iPad / Mac, everyone would start the pressure to get them to commit to a date.
So, really, nothing’s changed from what we understood yesterday. Apple hasn’t committed, but they haven’t said it won’t ever happen either.
——RM
looking backwards is a surefire way to become a dinosaur.
i immediately thought of this — who can identify the writer without electronic search?
I never knew what it meant to me
’til someone just took the best of me
If it’s some kind of conspiracy
Then no one gets to the rest of me
I’m turning over leaves,
I’m holding up my head
I’m healing over hurt and learning to forget
I said, “Don’t look back, let it fade and let it go
Don’t look back, let it fade and let it go”
You make your way in a crazy world
Get all mixed up by a crazy girl [Siri?]
When all you want is some honesty
But then all she gives you is sympathy
I’m opening new new doors,
I’m clearing out the shelf
I’m loosening away my act and laughing to myself
I said, “Don’t look back, let it fade and let it go
Don’t look back, let it fade and let it go”
Don’t be afraid of the choices you’ve made
Try not to give any quarter, there’s no more to say
I’m walking away and I’ll never look back
I said, “Don’t look back, let it fade and let it go …
I had assumed that Siri would have a universal U.S. accent but I was impressed that in the Australian TV advertisements, Siri has been given an Australian accent!
Now if they would only put an Australian English dictionary in their phones instead of that bastardised U.S. version!
Quit your whining. Bunch of freaking babies. Same people who complain they can’t get the latest greatest phone, because they voluntarily signed a 2 year contract.