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Siri outages being reported around the country

posted by Charlene S. / Nov 03, 2011, 2:36 PM

Siri outages being reported around the country

As first reported by iSmashPhone.com, there are a tremendous amount of reports of Siri outages surfacing on Twitter. Some users have reported extreme latency while others have stated they are not able to use the service at all.

Siri, Apple’s voice assistant, relies on a connection to Apple’s servers to process requests from users. Currently when a user make a request, most are receiving a response of “Sorry, I’m having trouble connecting to the network.”

An outage is not completely outrageous considering Siri is still in beta, however, with Apple positioning it as a cornerstone feature of the iPhone 4S, many users will be disappointed that it is unavailable.

There is currently no official word from Apple in regards to an outage or an estimated recovery time.

source: iSmashPhone

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37 Comments

1. Crusadion

Posts: 9; Member since: Aug 29, 2011

I think this becoming an issue of supply and demand.

posted on Nov 03, 2011, 2:45 PM 3

3. nb2six

Posts: 298; Member since: Apr 27, 2011

ignorance must be true bliss for you...

posted on Nov 03, 2011, 2:49 PM 2

11. _SavioR_

Posts: 19; Member since: Oct 30, 2011

I'm 100% positive that you're not even black. You're here trying to start shiit. Ignorant bastard.

posted on Nov 03, 2011, 3:10 PM 5

22. JeffdaBeat unregistered

I agree...being Black myself, I've noticed 13 to 22-year-old white men tend to think they are black because they listen to rap music, but have never gone into a black community, even good ones.

posted on Nov 03, 2011, 4:25 PM 2

20. Shangri-La

Posts: 76; Member since: Oct 04, 2011

I think Siri is actually made by HTC - it's 'quietly brilliant'.

posted on Nov 03, 2011, 4:12 PM 2

4. GALAXY-S

Posts: 701; Member since: Jun 07, 2011

OMG no siris!!! its like having iphone 4 all over again!!! nooooo!!! haha..

posted on Nov 03, 2011, 2:53 PM 19

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7. GALAXY-S

Posts: 701; Member since: Jun 07, 2011

uuuhh that was harsh ...

posted on Nov 03, 2011, 2:58 PM 6

13. andro.

Posts: 1999; Member since: Sep 16, 2011

Iphone 4 owners can now even more easily fool their equally brainless chums that they also own a iphone 4s,all while other more aware smartphone owners look on pointing and laughing at them both having faulty apple phones.

posted on Nov 03, 2011, 3:16 PM 5

5. iamcc

Posts: 1319; Member since: Oct 07, 2011

They must be talking to her wrong.

posted on Nov 03, 2011, 2:56 PM 7

32. NeXoS

Posts: 292; Member since: May 03, 2011

Dude this comment should be the headline of the article! CLASSIC!!

posted on Nov 03, 2011, 11:06 PM 1

8. Whateverman

Posts: 3295; Member since: May 17, 2009

Siri never had these kinds of problems when it was just an app. What the heck is Apple doing?

posted on Nov 03, 2011, 2:58 PM 2

27. taco50

Posts: 5506; Member since: Oct 08, 2009

I don't think the app used Apple's servers

posted on Nov 03, 2011, 7:32 PM 2

9. andygallo

Posts: 39; Member since: Oct 21, 2011

"Hi Siri, can you please shut down your service?" "I sure can" "...Hello?"

posted on Nov 03, 2011, 3:01 PM 10

10. EclipseGSX

Posts: 1773; Member since: Oct 18, 2011

Siri is still a beta?! hahahahaha

posted on Nov 03, 2011, 3:08 PM 5

12. andro.

Posts: 1999; Member since: Sep 16, 2011

A wikipedia timeline: 2010 apple release a faulty iphone 4 plagued with problems,thousands of idiots buy it. 2011 Apple release the same phone again just rename it with an s and use mental pr techniques to fool the susceptible that its a new phone by having a revolutionary 'new' feature of 'siri' voice activations which was previously available on their app store for months and on rival os platforms for over a year. 2011: Several days after the release of this same iphone complaints flood in of poor battery,yellow screens,echo speaker calls and the siri ploy fails to work. 2011: a week after complaints thousands of idiots read all the faults and still hand their teenage money over for the phone in a zombie fashion

posted on Nov 03, 2011, 3:11 PM 10

16. remyrz

Posts: 205; Member since: Oct 28, 2010

in spanish... sabias palabras :P

posted on Nov 03, 2011, 3:35 PM 1

17. andro.

Posts: 1999; Member since: Sep 16, 2011

Seeing as apple idiots call anyone who is mentally aware enough to see all the faults of apple and its products trolls maybe you'd like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLEo7H9tqSM

posted on Nov 03, 2011, 3:41 PM 5

15. taz89

Posts: 2014; Member since: May 03, 2011

if apple cant handle a few millions than imagine when they have 30+ million people using siri...i guess people are dissing apple because apple fans always claim apple are perfect and can do know wrong etc so when things do go wrong they should not be surprised by the trolling.

posted on Nov 03, 2011, 3:35 PM 3

18. messiah

Posts: 438; Member since: Feb 19, 2010

Battery, voice echoes, and now siri ..... today I'm proud to say I'm an Android user

posted on Nov 03, 2011, 3:55 PM 8

19. jackhammeR

Posts: 1548; Member since: Oct 17, 2011

yet another apple great product...oh, wait...why it doesn't work??? siri will change your world..yeah, if you count only on siri, it can shatter your day into a pieces:)

posted on Nov 03, 2011, 3:59 PM 1

21. dirtydirty00

Posts: 428; Member since: Jan 21, 2011

HA SIRI IS DEAD! and who cares anyway. once people buy the phone and have fun with siri for 30 minutes and show people siri, they prolly never use it again. they have fun asking it things like "where can i hide dead bodies?" or "nearest whorehouse" but then once the NOVELTY wears off, they never use it again. siri = barcode scanner. fun... impressive... but never used after the initial fun wears away.

posted on Nov 03, 2011, 4:20 PM 2

23. Carlitos

Posts: 664; Member since: Oct 23, 2011

And the list grows on all the faults on the iphones 4s. Apple is getting farther and farther away from perfection. As a matter of fact it is beginning to look like some android handsets that come with a handfuls of issues.

posted on Nov 03, 2011, 4:48 PM 2

24. Andy252

Posts: 3; Member since: Nov 03, 2011

I would honestly have any of these small problems that get fixed quickly rather than any crap fragmented barely working non updaded crappy app store android. Comes from a nexus s owner.

posted on Nov 03, 2011, 5:03 PM 1

25. Sniggly

Posts: 7305; Member since: Dec 05, 2009

Barely working... non updated... you do realize that your Nexus is first in line for updates, and will get ICS? You also do realize that there are many high quality Android phones that work well, right? Also, you do realize that the two most recent versions of Android make up the significant majority of Android phones in use, right?

posted on Nov 03, 2011, 5:45 PM 3

26. Sniggly

Posts: 7305; Member since: Dec 05, 2009

Well, I guess today just isn't Apple's day. However, Android has had those days too. Apple is allowed to not be perfect. I just hope their users and the company remembers that.

posted on Nov 03, 2011, 5:46 PM 2

28. akhi216

Posts: 61; Member since: May 01, 2011

Siri, why aren't you yourself anymore?

posted on Nov 03, 2011, 8:19 PM 2

29. remixfa

Posts: 14605; Member since: Dec 19, 2008

you know all these product problems are going to hurt sales.. even some ibots want their phone to do SOMETHING.. SOMETIMES.. lol That Q1 2012 bet is starting to look mighty good for team samsung to win.. keep it up apple!! :)

posted on Nov 03, 2011, 8:37 PM 2

30. Immolate

Posts: 310; Member since: Jun 17, 2011

Wait, Apple says Siri is beta? Ah hellz nah. You ship it, it isn't beta. You stand on a stage and hawk your wares based on a product feature, it isn't beta. Sorry, excuse fail. Companies ship crappy products all the time. Apple isn't immune from that possibility, nor does their legendary past quality control make their current screw-ups go away. It's hard to argue that sixteen months isn't enough time to iron out the bugs in your product. It seems to me that something happened that forced their plans to change late the in game and the 4S was a cobbled-together compromise.