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Wednesday 16 November 2011

Apple | Siri Cannot Function Outside Of An iPhone 4S


Few days ago, before the growing interest among Apple users to start using the tool Siri, some developers worked to introduce this service to other terminals of the same family, in spite of that Apple has notified its insistence that there could only Siri running through an iPhone 4S. As you know, Siri is the name of the wizard voice just to make known their beloved Apple iPhone 4S, a device that brings very little new. In fact, one of the most important is Siri. This is one of the main reasons for the uniqueness of this application. The guys at MacRumors have wanted to be explicit in this regard now, announcing that developers who paved the way for Siri worked on an iPhone 4, iPhone or a 3G iPhone have found an inconsistency in the communication protocol, directly related to Apple's servers.

Indeed, professionals tried to break open protocol Siri servers communicating with this tool even through a computer. The truth is that developers have now indicated that they would share this knowledge with the world, but the chances that a user can use Siri from an iPad or even from an Android device are quite remote, if not impossible. MacRumors professionals themselves have explained that Apple's communication technology is quite clear, since it is based on the transmission of data through a unique identifier for iPhone 4S. That little number, unique for each new phone from Apple allows the user to connect to the servers effectively Siri. We would be talking about a protocol developed to transfer information through a unique identifier, personal and not transferable, so to speak.

The developers have done in this case is to use the ID of your iPhone 4S and incorporate it in other devices and connect to Siri. The solution to this equation is very simple. Apple has the ability to detect when an identifier is being used way too intense and from other locations. Apple is very easy to include the identifier in a blacklist and block it immediately, the cure being worse than the disease.

In this sense, the developers were responsible for clarifying the fact that they shared this little trick which is just a demonstration of their knowledge, since the actual use that users can do this trick is frankly unlikely, if we want to preserve our access to the assistant Siri without Apple having to spend on ready to punish us for. This is the way to work at Apple. You can not surprise anyone.

The possibility of using other devices iPhone 4S will be useful for a minority of developers who want to experiment and testing the tool itself, but not for the great mass of customers to connect to Apple Siri from any device, using the ID other iPhone 4S. It is an impossibility, so it will be forgotten.

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