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SeaKing · 01-27-2012, 10:52 AM

The real costs of the new Prima Donna: Siri

A short definition: Prima Donna - "a vain or undisciplined person who finds it difficult to work under direction or as part of a team ..."

"How Siri is ruining your cellphone service"
By Paul Farhi, Published: January 26. 2012
Washington Post

"... Most ways you look at it, Siri is pretty magical.
But not in every way. Siri’s dirty little secret is that she’s a bandwidth guzzler, the digital equivalent of a 10-miles-per-gallon Hummer H1"

"...Siri-equipped iPhone 4S uses twice as much data as does the plain old iPhone 4 and nearly three times as much as does the iPhone 3G. The new phone requires far more data than most other advanced smartphones, which are pretty data-intensive themselves, The Post has reported."

"In all, Arieso says that the Siri-equipped iPhone 4S “appears to unleash data consumption behaviors that have no precedent.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...y.html?hpid=z2

Data costs the user money. Too much data usage degrades the networks, drops calls, slows everyone down whether you are using Siri or not.

There are three questions in my mind.
1. Will Siri survive using as much data as it does?
2. Will we survive Siri?

3. (Did someone mention "Skynet?")

01-27-2012, 10:52 AM	#1
SeaKing Frequent Flier Posts: 1,282 Karma: 2058993297 Join Date: Oct 2011 Device: KB kindle aboard, Galx Tab 7.0 Plus, trying out Droid 1 as mini-tab	The real costs of the new Prima Donna: Siri The real costs of the new Prima Donna: Siri A short definition: Prima Donna - "a vain or undisciplined person who finds it difficult to work under direction or as part of a team ..." "How Siri is ruining your cellphone service" By Paul Farhi, Published: January 26. 2012 Washington Post "... Most ways you look at it, Siri is pretty magical. But not in every way. Siri’s dirty little secret is that she’s a bandwidth guzzler, the digital equivalent of a 10-miles-per-gallon Hummer H1" "...Siri-equipped iPhone 4S uses twice as much data as does the plain old iPhone 4 and nearly three times as much as does the iPhone 3G. The new phone requires far more data than most other advanced smartphones, which are pretty data-intensive themselves, The Post has reported." "In all, Arieso says that the Siri-equipped iPhone 4S “appears to unleash data consumption behaviors that have no precedent.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...y.html?hpid=z2 Data costs the user money. Too much data usage degrades the networks, drops calls, slows everyone down whether you are using Siri or not. There are three questions in my mind. 1. Will Siri survive using as much data as it does? 2. Will we survive Siri? 3. (Did someone mention "Skynet?")