Siri is hitting news once again; however, this time the personal assistant is showing her face on the iPad 1st-generation. One thing’s for sure — this iPad is jailbroken.
Jack, or @jackoplane, has done it again it seems! This time, he says that Siri on the iPad 1 isn’t communicating with the Apple servers but any iOS device can be spoofed to look like an iPhone 4S and communicate with the servers. If all else fails, Siri can still be used to query Google. At least this time, @Joshmtucker of ModMyi has confirmed that their work is indeed real.
So what does this mean to us? Users might be inching closer and closer to having Siri on their non-iPhone 4S device. However, there is still a chance for the iPhone 4 and iPad 2 to natively get Siri from Apple itself. After all, Siri is in beta. What do you guys think? Legitimate work? Will we ever see Siri outside the 4S? Share your wisdom below.
Via JailbreakStory
im tired of them showing siri running but no working on these devices its such a damn wast of time..
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Like"If you want Siri so badly, just buy the damn phone." ummmn no cause the screen is too small and i will install siri to my iphone 4s soon as it is possible.,
if apple wanted me to by a new phone so bad they should have put a larger screen on it..lololol
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LikeIt might happen. Apple might backport Siri all the way to the iPod Shuffle. And pigs might fly.
Every iPhone 4 or 3GS that runs Siri is one less iPhone 4s that Apple could have sold you. Every iPad 1 or 2 that runs Siri is one less iPad 3 that Apple could have sold you.
This is not like iBooks that appeared first on one device and then on the other. iBooks pays its own way: more copies of iBooks means more ebooks sold. Siri only costs Apple money, it does not make any. They have to pay Wolfram Alpha for that data and so on. They have to run that massive server farm.The only way they can recoup their costs is by selling phones and tablets.
Apple wants to sell lots of phones. And lots of iPads. So please, let's stop this wishful thinking. Just ask yourself "What's in it for Apple?"
As for the jailbreakers: if they are distributing the Siri executable, Apple will come down on them like a ton of bricks. Certainly Saurik isn't that crazy, so you won't get this in Cydia, our second walled garden. Even if they have found some other way, Apple will tweak the servers to reject Siri calls from unauthorized phones, and a cat-and-mouse game will start. Keeping up with that will be far too much trouble for the average person.
If you want Siri so badly, just buy the damn phone.
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