A new rumor suggests that come next week’s WWDC, Siri is finally making its way to the iPad. Or, at least, it will when iOS 6 is finalized in September later in the year.
According to the rumor, Siri on the iPad works identically to how it works on the iPhone 4S, except for one thing: it’s a slide-in interface, à la Notification Center, instead of a fullscreen affair. Makes sense, given the iPad’s 9.7-inch display: a fullscreen Siri would be overkill.
Otherwise, there’s not a lot of content to this report, so take it with a grain of salt. That said, it seems plausible Apple would bring Siri to the iPad. The only question is one of ramping up to scale: Apple’s Siri servers have been crushed by traffic ever since the iPhone 4S’s debut, leading to regular downtimes and unpredictable responses. Can Apple handle additional traffic by rolling it out to all existing iPads at once, or even just the new iPad?
Then there’s the question of whether or not Siri makes sense on a tablet. We’ve previously argued that Apple is unlikely to ship Siri on devices without an always-on Internet connection, which means 3G iPad models only. Is Cupertino likely to fragment iPads this way?
Source: 9to5Mac
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6 responses to “Siri Could Be Coming To The iPad In iOS 6 [Rumor]”
gestures are already fragmented between iPad generations…
Saying that Siri on a tablet doesn’t make sense is absolutely ridiculous! If the argument is that not all iPads are connected to the internet on 3G, then why does the new iPad have dictation – a feature that only works when connected to the speech-recognition servers? I can’t find a good reason why Siri would not be featured on a tablet, and in my opinion there is no doubt that Siri will eventually land on the iPad.
Em, John? The new iPad, as I’m sure you are aware, has Siri dictation … this also requires a data connection.
It’s not rocket science to figure out that since dictation is there, Siri is coming in full to the new iPad … and the new iPad only.
Maybe I’m missing something, how are gestures fragmented between iPad generations? I know my iPad 1 supports multitasking gestures, and does the “new iPad” support those same gestures?
let me just say. I have iPad 2 and i have Siri on it. Its OK at first but then it just came to be a FAD. just like 3D movies and just like ear peace boom back in the day. I do use the dictation most of the time.