If you’re hoping that the Dev Team will be able to port the iPhone 4S’s new Siri feature to other devices like the iPad 2 and iPhone 4, prepare for a disappointment: MuscleNerd says that it will likely require piracy, and therefore, they probably won’t do it.
On Twitter, MuscleNerd wrote:
Anyone hoping for a “port” of Siri from iPhone4S: pending a very low-level A5 exploit, it likely can’t be done without piracy :(
(only way to extract Siri files from iPhone4S filesystem without pirating is to have the main FS keys, requiring low-level exploit)
In other words, the only way to get Siri on a non-iPhone 4S is by ripping off the files and installing them on another device. You can’t trick an iPhone 4 into identifying itself as an iPhone 4S to download Siri directly from Apple. Granted, it’s mostly a semantic argument, but it does mean that the Dev Team won’t be helping you with your Siri jones.
[via iClarified]
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