Update: Seems like things have returned to normal.
It seems that Siri is down. Accoridng to some of the tweets we’ve been reading (as well as our own experience), people aren’t having much luck with the service right now.
Here are some tweets from other Siri users:
davidfine David Fine
Siri is not working well for me right now. Can’t even process this simple request. Servers must be down for NYC:pic.twitter.com/IFD4g1LOgbailey Gerald BaileyWow, is Siri down? I keep getting the message that it cannot connect to the network. Reboot didn’t help either.
bigrich0272 Verified Account^Is siri down for every one
We will update as more information comes in. Please leave some comments and let us know what you are experiencing.
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Yep, down here on VZW.
Do you have any contacts in Apple.Siri product development?
I have a cool feature in mind that would probably need to be pretty tightly integrated into Siri. I’m an IC designer and community activist, not a coder. Still I am pretty sure I could explain it pretty completely to a decent app coder.
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KevinICdesigner formerly chief designer at Altera 1986 to 1995
Does anyone know what server computation is required when using Siri (when doing something local like pulling up a contact in your contacts, playing a song in your personal local library, etc.)? The amount of information being shared with the servers is modest, so it’s definitely not pushing the full audio up to the cloud for processing. I was assuming that for non-internet Siri inquiries, that the conversation with the server would be limited to just capturing statistical/information information, but then it would be a pretty poor architecture if the system failed to work at all just because Apple’s data collection servers were down. Just wondering.