Siri coming to iPhone 4, iPod touch soon
Root your fourth generation Apple smartphone or media player and get the world’s most advanced digital assistant. Well, not quite yet, but the groundwork has been done and it shouldn’t be too long now. So, why buy a new iPhone 4S when last year’s model costs $100 less and gets you 90 percent of the goodness?
From day one people questioned why Apple chose not to offer Siri on the iPhone 4S or, for that matter, the iPad 2 and fourth generation iPod touch. The chorus of complaints will only grow louder now that our hacker friends have demonstrated Siri running on last year’s iPhone and, as shown below, last year’s iPod touch, as well.
via Redmond Pie
Will Siri work on the iPad 2? Almost undoubtedly it will and someone’s sure to demonstrate that (stay tuned).
Why hasn’t Apple offered this functionality on all compatible devices from day one? Well, probably to sell as many iPhone 4Ses as possible.
Further, Cupertino just might have been behaving responsibly by offering Siri, which is still in beta, on its top-of-the-line hardware. Nah, they just wanna sell more iPhone 4Ses.
Whatever the case, folks will soon be taking matters into their own hands and installing Siri on anything that’ll run it. And, of course, that will require them to root (a.k.a. “jailbreak”) their iPhones…
What’s your take?
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October 31st, 2011
Siri will come to iPhone4/iPod when the user experience will be good enough running on a single core cpu.