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If this was the plan all along, Apple should have pulled support when they first gobbled up Siri. I understand a service/app could stop working at some point in the future, but a couple days after the new iPhone 4S, which just happens to the only Apple device to use Siri, goes on sale?
If I were playing the role of Apple, I would have considered continuing the app for another year or so to keep all the none iPhone 4S devices on some level of feature parity. If this was not possible, I would have articulated the reasoning to my customers.
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silvarios wrote:
If I were playing the role of Apple, I would have considered continuing the app for another year or so to keep all the none iPhone 4S devices on some level of feature parity. If this was not possible, I would have articulated the reasoning to my customers.
And that would confuse us all, because it would be terribly uncharacteristic of Apple.
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but now it's obvious Apple has simply purchased it.
Apple bought Siri over a year ago.
If Siri was free all along, then I say users have no beef. But if you buy an app, even for 99¢, then it stinks that it's killed off.
It doesn't bother me one whit that *maybe* Lion could have been done in PPC as well as Intel, and work. PPC machines will do just fine with SL for some time.
It's all about business. Whether we like it or not, whether we agree or not, sometimes it's good business.
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"PPC machines will do just fine with SL for some time."
well, really ... just with L.
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Maybe they should've killed it sooner like they did with Lala, but is that better? Then the app users would have still been complaining, saying they should've let it live at least until the new version came out.
