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iPhone 4S's Siri Is a Bandwidth Guzzler

Posted by timothy on from the at-least-data-is-free dept.

Frankie70 writes "'Siri's dirty little secret is that she's a bandwidth guzzler, the digital equivalent of a 10-miles-per-gallon Hummer H1.' A study by Arieso shows that users of the iPhone 4S demand three times as much data as iPhone 3G users and twice as much as iPhone 4 users, who were identified as the most demanding in a 2010 study. 'In all, Arieso says that the Siri-equipped iPhone 4S "appears to unleash data consumption behaviors that have no precedent."'"

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  1. I hope Apple won't patent bandwidth guzzling by G3ckoG33k · · Score: 1, Funny

    I hope Apple won't patent bandwidth guzzling, as it would make their application steal the room left for others. But, since it is Apple, who knows...

  2. Re:Well, duh by Hognoxious · · Score: 5, Funny

    That would require an extra input field which would ruin the GUI's feng shui.

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    Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
  3. Re:The police can just confiscate the cloud by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 5, Funny

    They can't do that to iCloud because Apple protects it with teams of iNinjas.