Siri App is dead for anyone but iPhone 4S owners --Long Live Vlingo (Iphone, Itouch, Ipad)--Was $7 now Free

[Grateful11]

Siri App is dead--Long Live Vlingo (Iphone, Itouch, Ipad)--Was $7 now Free
For Iphone owners who have used Siri free for the last couple of years, Apple killed it yesterday. Great voice
personal assistant app. No longer in the Store, and even if you have it on your phone it tells you that it
dies Oct 15. So now you have to buy a new 4S Iphone to get it. Boo.

But you can still get an app much like it for your older phone, Vlingo. It has been free, but requiring a $7
upgrade for the best features. It just went fully free. It does much of what Siri did.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vlingo-vo...dd0c0s5814

And it works on Itouchs and Ipads.

Here's an interesting article on it. http://gigaom.com/2011/10/04/vlingo-and-...eappleblog&utm_medium=specialtopics

Another article about it:

http://appadvice.com/appnn/2011/10/follo...illed-soon

Big brother is looking out for us little iPhone 3 & 4 peeons. Controlled obsolescence.

What's next, no iOS 5 for us.

[rjmacs]

Wow. That's kinda harsh. Not surprising, but kinda harsh.

[decay]

my G4 won't run Lion!


waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

[Grateful11]

decay wrote:
my G4 won't run Lion!


waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

In no way the same thing. Siri was already running on older iPhones and they pulled it away.
Lion wasn't ever able to and never would run Lion.

[rjmacs]

decay wrote:
my G4 won't run Lion!


waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

I have to agree with Grateful11 here... Siri still works great on my iPhone 4, but allowing me to keep using it diminishes the draw of the iP4S. I'm not arguing with Apple's reasoning - it's good product-line promotion, it just sucks. There's no technical reason Apple needs to shut off Siri on older devices.

[decay]

maybe there was a contractual agreement with Siri.

[rjmacs]

decay wrote:
maybe there was a contractual agreement with Siri.

Ummm, Apple owns Siri, so that's not likely.

[rgG]

I don't think I ever remember Apple, or anyone else, pulling functionality from a device, that they had already approved, just so they could make you buy a new device. Sounds like a crappy move to me.

[deckeda]

Prior to yesterday I'd never heard of Siri but now it's obvious Apple has simply purchased it. Siri.com even resolves to Apple's Siri page now. The only oddity is that Apple didn't rebrand it.

Seems equally obvious the limitaton to run on the 4S is a sales decision, not a technical one requiring the A5 processor or anything else. And given that owners of older iPhones are now shut out, that's a really shitty move.

Don't know how it could be spun any other way, even if it does run a little better on the newer hardware.

[rjmacs]

rgG wrote:
I don't think I ever remember Apple, or anyone else, pulling functionality from a device, that they had already approved, just so they could make you buy a new device. Sounds like a crappy move to me.

You mean like removing and permanently disabling Rosetta in their OS, despite broad developer consensus that Lion could easily technically run PPC apps? Or getting rid of click-wheel iPod games in the iTS? Being an dedicated Apple consumer is partly a commitment to keep it moving, stay on target, don't lag too far behind... I'm thoroughly unsurprised by this. As it happens, the pros outweigh the cons (by a long shot) for me, so i'll stick with Apple. But i don't have to like it! :mad: