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iPhone 4S's Siri Is a Bandwidth Guzzler

Posted by timothy on Friday January 27, 2012 @07:55PM 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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Hi! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-27 20:00 · Score: -1, Offtopic

It's an article about Apple.
Re:Well, duh by nasirg · 2012-01-27 20:26 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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Re:Siri Is Not A Bandwidth Hog; 63KB/Query by pthisis · 2012-01-27 20:33 · Score: -1, Offtopic

An article that's predicated on using the search 2-3 times a day is seriously supposed to be a rebuttal? I don't doubt that the original numbers are overblown and could easily be disputed, but come on--two or three searches a day doesn't pass the smell test.

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Re:Well, duh by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-27 21:33 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Timothy's dirty little secret is that he's a cum guzzler