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Siri hackage proceeds apace

by Erica Sadun Oct 14th 2011 at 4:46PM

I love Siri. You love Siri. We all love Siri -- and we want it on our iPhones 4 and 3GS, not just on the 4S. Numerous iOS hobbyists including limneos, Gojohnnyboi, and iH8sn0w have been hard at work trying to bring Siri over from the 4S to other platforms.

After weeks of work -- this effort predates the iOS 5 release and the 4S debut -- they have made substantial progress. What you're looking at here represents some preliminary results, enabling the assistant in the device settings.

The Siri-porting team is still working on launching the background daemon, providing the interactive magic dialog "pocket" and other system features.

Can you expect Siri on your jailbroken iOS device any time soon? I'd say you're probably looking at weeks rather than months or days at this point, and that is contingent on the team's ability to pull together many working parts including frameworks, daemons, Mobile Substrate overrides, and more.

Stay tuned.



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Knertified

There is a reason why it's not enabled on iPhone4 and it's because the processor probably can't handle it to be a good user experience. Apple wouldn't just ignore iPhone4 without a good reason.... Maybe 3GS but not 4. It's too soon.

October 15 2011 at 3:02 PM Report abuse -2 rate up rate down Reply
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Winski

AND, don't forget about us poor iPad2 users!!!

October 15 2011 at 12:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
dicklacara

Oh...
It's been a long time since I JailBroke an iPhone -- this piques my interest. I wonder if Siri would work on the 3GS or an iPod Touch...

October 15 2011 at 6:51 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nick Edinburgh

I had my old iPhone jailbroken, so I've no problem with adapting your own property in principle....

But if this is how it reads, it's theft. If it's using Apple's Siri service on unauthorised devices, that's blatant stealing of their property. You may not like it, but Apple has every right to limit access to any device they choose. The marginal per-session costs to Apple may be small, but they're real, and represent a large investment. Breaking in using another device to use that service without their permission is no different in principle to breaking into a bank to use their money.

I'm sick of those who hide behind so-called principles of freedom to justify any illegal and immoral behaviour. Those who think this is cool should be ashamed of themselves. And anyone using such exploits should be aware that they are nothing more than petty thieves, in the same category as the opportunist rioters in London who stole property just because they could. Shame on you.

October 15 2011 at 3:12 AM Report abuse -2 rate up rate down Reply
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Markus

My point exactly. And I am pretty sure you cannot fool Apple's servers into believing a non-iPhone 4S is a 4S unless you steal the identity of a real 4S, which likely is illegal. The funny thing is that these thieves will tell Apple exactly where they are too ...

October 17 2011 at 5:30 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
rab

For how revolutionary Siri is! Why can't it open an Application? I do Love it though!

October 14 2011 at 6:41 PM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
Cool K

Well I'd take a gamble and assume they have at least a little bit of a clue as to what they're doing Markus. Considering Apple has hired these guys in the past (RE: comex).

October 14 2011 at 5:55 PM Report abuse +3 rate up rate down Reply
Maverick

I would think that jailbreaking for Siri would make your phone incredibly unstable.

October 14 2011 at 5:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Markus

Are they idiots? If some part of the processing is done on Apple servers, as it is commonly described, Apple can easily block anything that doesn't originate from a valid iPhone 4S device.

October 14 2011 at 5:33 PM Report abuse -3 rate up rate down Reply
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Just Josh

Chances are they can probably send a message to Apples servers telling it its coming from an iPhone 4S when it isn't. They're obviously not idiots, that would probably one of the first things they would have speculated.

October 14 2011 at 6:10 PM Report abuse +2 rate up rate down Reply
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Markus

Which particular iPhone 4S? Phones have identifiers, and Apple knows all of them.

October 17 2011 at 5:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down
arsenal6

they will find a workaround. thats their job.

October 14 2011 at 8:30 PM Report abuse -1 rate up rate down Reply
RobertJP

Played with it today and it was quite nice. Looking forward to using it on my iPhone 4.

October 14 2011 at 5:29 PM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
Josh Zytkiewicz

I've never really been interested in Jailbreaking, but I'd do it to get Siri.

October 14 2011 at 5:02 PM Report abuse +3 rate up rate down Reply
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