I pretty much don't care.
Siri gets over her huff, returns useful as ever
Apple's vocal mistress Siri had a brief time-out yesterday when the cloud-based service dispersed, leaving iPhone users to prod their screens like everyone else. It's not clear what went wrong. Apple is being as fulsome as ever, but for a good few hours Americans were greeted with a connection error when asking Siri a question …
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Saturday 5th November 2011 10:06 GMT Ilgaz
They added to firmware I guess
As they got nuts about failure rate and t28 owners were the last ones they want to piss off, they may have added something to service menu. It is like laptop producers putting liquid detector chips since they got tired of dried laptop owners demanding warranty cover.
The basic calculation was number of calls and very rarely used sms message composing of that time. They had to multiply with 10 or 20.
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Saturday 5th November 2011 10:06 GMT Ilgaz
Will you get impressed that easy?
First of all there are amazingly clever irc bots. Secondly I remember holding a conversation with my Amiga. It was something starting with R and came on single diskette. 22 years ago or more. People keeps getting impressed with same things. Of course context aware search is big deal but asking lame questions and getting amused by not so good jokes is really weird.
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Friday 4th November 2011 23:28 GMT Steve Evans
As also recently demonstrated by Blackberry, this is exactly why you should think very carefully before having functions and features offloaded into the ether. You never know what is at the other end doing the hard work, it could have (and both BBM and Siri seem to have) several single points of failure.
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Saturday 5th November 2011 10:06 GMT Ilgaz
They asked for it. It will never scale.
Being a certified UNIX vendor (big deal to get it) they abandoned their servers and enterprise customers and bought windows cloud servers. If any other company was at their position where a device is at Fortune 500 meeting rooms, they would take the advantage and promote their servers not giving up standards of course. Just watch how ms will use the windows brand for those archaic and incapable handsets.
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