Siri for iPad 2 in iOS 6

Lets maybe examine how Siri works in the first place shall we? The voice content is distributed to servers and processing center's which in turn process information based upon a very unique identifier.

Scenario 1: While creating the ipad 3, the unique device identifiers were created in such a way that siri processing would be possible or possible in the future. But lets be honest here, the actual system requirements to run Siri are not demanding, a number of online blogs and tech organizations have mimicked Siri functionality on iphone 3s by spoofing unique ID's. Also, it probably wouldnt be difficult to revamp whatever Siri infrastructure is in place to accept ipad 2 etc.

Scenario 2: There have been 85 million ipad2's sold. If the infrastructure is not in place to proces all of the voice data, apple's servers/centers would be bogged down on a constant basis. What would they do given this scenario? Pour millions into developing a larger infrastructure? Or, maybe, they could simply not care. By not caring, they wouldn't have to spend money. In fact, they would be able to make a lot of money. People who wanted that service would be able to upgrade their devices and pass on their old ones or sell them.

Why should a business not be interested in making money? Because they are nice and friendly and they love their customers and want their trust? No. They are great at what they do. The reason they continue to pump out amazing product time and time again is because they play their cards right. And while yes...they don't neccesarily pump a franction of what they could into R&D they still never cease to amaze us. Carry on Apple.

dazziola1990 wrote:

Apple never announced that Siri would not be coming to iPad 2 so excuse me if I feel hard done by upon download that the flagship feature is wholly missing despite all the hype about it "Coming to IOS6 devices"

Apple never announced that it would be coming to the iPad-2 so excuse me if I believe that you have exactly what you paid for.

While you were researching did you pay any attention to the Audience noise reduction/voice recognition chipset that Dah-veed mentioned? Or did you just omit it because it does not prove your point?

The first device using the Audience technology was the 4s which came AFTER the release of the iPad 2. Only the iDevices with some form of noise reduction/voice recognition technology have Siri. There is a pattern here.

I bought the new iPad when it was released and while there were rumors at the time there was nothing definite that said it would ever get Siri. I bought it for what it did, not what updates might be added to it.

Bottom line, the iPad 2 and iPhone 4 will never get Siri. If this makes you furious there is competition out there, vote with your wallet.

I'm sorry in what world is that helpful?

Actually it appears you have linked me to a fanyboy article. Be careful and try to avoid posting biased opinions on here.

So what? Heaps of people have iPhones. Most of them critisise them.. the fanboys (ie you) are the ones who fly into a relentless rage the moment somebody says something negative about Apple... or would yo rather I say God?

Nice link, did you have that bookmarked for your own reference? Good man. Right I'm out of this thread. You have been the least helpful here. I wish you the best.

Philly_Phan wrote:

Apple never announced that it would be coming to the iPad-2 so excuse me if I believe that you have exactly what you paid for.

Ummm... I bought an iPad... I downloaded the Siri App.... Siri app works... apple buy out Siri... Siri stops working..... fanboys (death squad) shoot down and destroy anyone who dares protest.

boy apple have got this one down.

I agree, although many people have given valid reasons (all I was looking for) with regards to audience noise etc, many have been less than helpful and in fact are the bottom of the barrell.

I don't think it is unreasonable that we should expect incremental upgrades just over a year after purchase, regardless of what Apple say or don't say.

I'm out of this conversation, must look into the Nexus 7!

dazziola1990 wrote:

Nice link, did you have that bookmarked for your own refeence? Good man. Right I'm out of this thread. You have been the least helpful here. I wish you the best.

Can I have a hallelujah

Thank you. That's a perfect response. All I wanted to now what the technical reason was. Cheers

Again, a perfectly reasonable response outlining why it's not viable on an iPad 2. Thanks for taking the time to write that. (I'm not being sarcastic btw!)

Philly_Phan wrote:

Perhaps this will help you.

Its funny because the author of this article thinks that $30 billion multiplied by 1.15 is $46 billion.

No one else notice that?

I dont get why they make their models outdate this fast, its not very inviromental if I have to get a new model evry second year...and very expencesive...why make software that outdates ones hardware in less than two years...*****....thinking about selinng both my mac, and my ipad, and my iphone...

You've told us twice that you were out of here. But you haven't left.

I haven't bothered to look back through the last 10 pages or so. However, I will say that as an objective observer coming to this conversation at the very end it seems uneccesary. There's not need to get personal everybody. Lets check our ego at the door. Isn't there a mod in here or something?

This is what they call a Honey Pot, it is allowed to attract the flies. Otherwise the place would be over run with dozens of individual threads on the same topic. As it is, those now get removed. This thread serves no logical purpose beyond that at this point.