With all the excitement of integrating Siri Assistant in the iPhone 4S, I decided to pull up the no-longer-available Siri app on my iPhone 3Gs. Interestingly, in Apple style, I was greeted with the screen above, which makes me think its days as a useful standalone app is literally numbered. I wanted to like Siri […]
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Siri App Teases iPhone 4S while saying Goodbye?

Oct 5th 2011 by

With all the excitement of integrating Siri Assistant in the iPhone 4S, I decided to pull up the no-longer-available Siri app on my iPhone 3Gs. Interestingly, in Apple style, I was greeted with the screen above, which makes me think its days as a useful standalone app is literally numbered.

I wanted to like Siri when I grabbed it over a year ago, and I did like its potential. It nearly always translated my speech accurately, but the results of the searches were occasionally inaccurate (“Where’s the nearest hot tub store?” once led me to a location where there was no such business). When I heard Apple bought Siri a while back, I was hopeful that the mergers of the two technologies would result in something as exciting as the 4S, and seeing the promoted video, I feel that Star Trek ideas are becoming reality (and I can drive more safely, too).

So how excited are you about what’s possible with voice control?

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