Siri on the iPad 3
Monday, January 16, 2012 at 9:07PM John Brownlee for Cult of Mac:
Our bet? This is simply a common sense deduction, and we have no inside source saying so, but when the iPad 3 comes out in March or April, Siri will ship only on units that have a 3G connection or better.
John Brownlee. No source. Common sense. One of these things is not like the other, one of these things just doesn’t belong.
It’ll be a premium feature for buyers willing to shell out $130 more for the guarantee of an always-on internet connection. Buy a WiFi-only model and you’ll still get a quad-core, A6-controlled iPad 3 with a gorgeous Retina Display, but Siri will be totally MIA… at least until the inevitable jailbreak hacks turn the functionality on again.
Siri is primarily what’s selling the iPhone 4S right now. It’s what Apple is advertising on commercials as the “killer feature” of the phone. To not include Siri on new hardware would be crazy.
Here are three ways this could go down:
- Apple doesn’t include Siri on the iPad at all
- Apple puts Siri on all new iPads, both WiFi and 3G
- (The one I could definitely see happening) Apple does away with WiFi iPads altogether and makes the 3G 16GB version $499