Rumor: Apple privately testing backport of Siri to iPhone 4

[mrplow]

Siri has already been deployed to the iPhone 4 (and 3GS) by the jailbreaking/mod community. For Apple to maintain such an artificial limitation is just silly in my view, especially if the intention is to take a bite out of Google's primary revenue stream.

I wouldn't be surprised if Siri was ported to every Apple device capable of running it by this time next year.

I agree. I think Siri, or a derivative, will become a standard part of iOS and will be back deployed to at least the A4 and A5 family, possibly the 3gs too.

I think Siri was rolled out to the 4s first for three reasons:
1. beta software often has a higher CPU demand prior to full optimisation
2. It's a good selling point
3. It's clear the Siri 'backbone' needs to be bolstered (judging by the few outages that have taken place) - rolling it out to a smaller subset of devices allows more control over the backend demand.

 

[iggibar]

I don't have a problem with it being abe to run on the iPhone4, the problem I have is that Apple themselves advertised Siri as one of them main upgrades on the iPhone4S. They themselves said its a feature only on the iPhone4S in their very own keynote. Like Apple all you want, but this is false advertising no matter how much you want it to be backported to the iPhone4. They should have introduced Siri as an iOS addition to make things accurate. Go ahead, watch the keynote starting at about 71 minutes. Also, I would like to mention that Apple refers to Siri as "Siri technology on the iPhone4S."
Also, knowing Apple, if this rumor is true, Apple wouldn't of just thought about backporting it, they would have been working on it long before the keynote, therefore contradicting their keynote if true.

 

[dj_eddie_gr]

It would be SIri technology if there was a chip inside just for processing that app. It'a a locked future only to 4s cause we have seen it running on a 4 ,but not getting an answer from the servers.

 

[TattooedMac]

I don't have a problem with it being abe to run on the iPhone4, the problem I have is that Apple themselves advertised Siri as one of them main upgrades on the iPhone4S. They themselves said its a feature only on the iPhone4S in their very own keynote. Like Apple all you want, but this is false advertising no matter how much you want it to be backported to the iPhone4. They should have introduced Siri as an iOS addition to make things accurate. Go ahead, watch the keynote starting at about 71 minutes. Also, I would like to mention that Apple refers to Siri as "Siri technology on the iPhone4S."
Also, knowing Apple, if this rumor is true, Apple wouldn't of just thought about backporting it, they would have been working on it long before the keynote, therefore contradicting their keynote if true.

^^^ That ^^^

 

[CrimsonRequiem]

I don't have a problem with it being abe to run on the iPhone4, the problem I have is that Apple themselves advertised Siri as one of them main upgrades on the iPhone4S. They themselves said its a feature only on the iPhone4S in their very own keynote. Like Apple all you want, but this is false advertising no matter how much you want it to be backported to the iPhone4. They should have introduced Siri as an iOS addition to make things accurate. Go ahead, watch the keynote starting at about 71 minutes. Also, I would like to mention that Apple refers to Siri as "Siri technology on the iPhone4S."
Also, knowing Apple, if this rumor is true, Apple wouldn't of just thought about backporting it, they would have been working on it long before the keynote, therefore contradicting their keynote if true.

So can we sue for false advertisement?