Siri Loses Her Voice, Experiences Spotty Country-Wide Service
Apple’s famous new speech-powered assistant may have lost her million-dollar voice.
Reports circulated on Thursday that Apple’s “Siri” voice-activated iPhone assistant is experiencing service outages with customers across the country.
Upon Apple’s service going down, Twitter exploded with messages from frustrated iPhone 4S users and lookers-on. Twitter-user BM5K — whose profile location states Queen Creek, AZ — asked “anyone else having major problems with Siri today?” Others, like Jason Vance of McLean, VA, wrote that Siri was working for him, albeit slower than usual.
And of course, there was the usual snarky commentary from Twitter’s global peanut gallery.
“With Siri Outage,” wrote Twitter-user Anupam Ashish, “iPhone 4S is now downgraded to an iPhone 4 with a Better Camera.”
It’s bad timing for Apple’s brand new service to go down. On Wednesday, after weeks of users complaining of battery life issues with their new iPhone 4S’, Apple issued a statement confirming its newly released iOS 5 operating system included “a few bugs that are affecting battery life,” promising to “release a software update to address those [bugs] in a few weeks.”
In Wired.com’s testing, the Siri service was spotty at best, functioning properly only intermittently.
Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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