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Originally Posted by teh603
What the heck is Siri, anyway? This is the first I've heard of it.
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Ahh my child. Welcome to the new Universe not at all far away.
Added- (I have more time than I thought.)
Siri is a kind of Artificial Intelligence. You can ask "your iPhone" a question and it will give you an answer. Apple bought a company, named Siri I think, that was heavily involved in this kind of technology, and implemented it into the latest iPhone.
Before that you could give relatively simple commands to phones or to GPS systems and get certain actions. With Siri you get a much better sense of someone being on the "end of the line" responding to your comments or questions. Almost like a real live person.
The thing is though the phone doesn't have the computing power and memory to do this kind of thing by itself, so the questions go to Apple servers and then come back to your phone. Takes a lot of bandwidth.
Other examples are HTC will allow you to speak and convert your words into a text message, and vice-versa. There are many examples, but Siri is probably more advanced than any other consumer product. I give Apple credit. They brought out something that fascinates their users, AGAIN. Again they will make a lot of money.
I don't spend that kind of money on my phone, and probably you don't either, so that is why the subject hasn't crossed your horizon.