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I would guess that Apple will now use the phone to handle most of the Siri computations, and that in this old Siri app it was being done server side. This is wh

I would guess that Apple will now use the phone to handle most of the Siri computations, and that in this old Siri app it was being done server side. This is why 4S is required. Having the app out there for a while likely gave Siri great users to test out their system with and improve upon it before launching mass integrated with the OS.

Kylekramer 15y ago
From http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/siri.html http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/siri.html: Siri is available in Beta only on iPhone 4S and requires Internet access. Systemic obsolescence, plain and simple.
- salman89 15y ago
  Right, processing the Siri commands locally instead of on a server might require more CPU horsepower that the iPhone 4 cannot handle. Just my best guess as a non-iPhone4S upsell reason for it being iPhone 4S only. The fact that it requires an internet connection may not mean anything. You don't necessarily know why it needs an internet connection. Things like search or feeding back use data can be non computational reasons for requiring an internet connection.
- dextorious 15y ago
  You keep using that word, "Systemic obsolescence". I don't think it means what you think it means. For one, it doesn't mean "buying a company that makes a product, stop selling that product standalone and bundle it with your own offering". It means adding an artificial end-of-life to functionality in the things you sell. Not to stop selling (or in this case offering) a thing altogether. If that was the case, any company discontinuing any product life (Apple discontinuing the Powerbooks e.g) would be "systemic obsolescence" too... From wikipedia: "Planned systemic obsolescence is the deliberate attempt to make a product obsolete by altering the system in which it is used in such a way as to make its continued use difficult. "

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I would guess that Apple will now use the phone to handle most of the Siri computations, and that in this old Siri app it was being done server side. This is wh

by salman89 15y ago

Kylekramer 15y ago
From http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/siri.html http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/siri.html: Siri is available in Beta only on iPhone 4S and requires Internet access. Systemic obsolescence, plain and simple.
- salman89 15y ago
  Right, processing the Siri commands locally instead of on a server might require more CPU horsepower that the iPhone 4 cannot handle. Just my best guess as a non-iPhone4S upsell reason for it being iPhone 4S only. The fact that it requires an internet connection may not mean anything. You don't necessarily know why it needs an internet connection. Things like search or feeding back use data can be non computational reasons for requiring an internet connection.
- dextorious 15y ago
  You keep using that word, "Systemic obsolescence". I don't think it means what you think it means. For one, it doesn't mean "buying a company that makes a product, stop selling that product standalone and bundle it with your own offering". It means adding an artificial end-of-life to functionality in the things you sell. Not to stop selling (or in this case offering) a thing altogether. If that was the case, any company discontinuing any product life (Apple discontinuing the Powerbooks e.g) would be "systemic obsolescence" too... From wikipedia: "Planned systemic obsolescence is the deliberate attempt to make a product obsolete by altering the system in which it is used in such a way as to make its continued use difficult. "