iPhone 4S's Siri Is a Bandwidth Guzzler 290
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."'"
Re:Siri Is Not A Bandwidth Hog; 63KB/Query (Score:5, Interesting)
I think a pretty reasonable hypothesis would be that the early adopters are much more likely to be heavy users than the folks using 2-3-4 year old phones. IE it's not the phone (or features) it's the individual.
Re:Exceeding monthly data caps is the new black (Score:4, Interesting)
Someone needs to develop an app that automatically runs a phone's data usage up to within 100 megs of the monthly cap on the last night of the billing cycle. If you're paying for 2, 4, 5, 10 gigs of data per month and it doesn't roll over, you may as well run it right up to the limit every month.
Sure, it's childish but these ridiculously low caps on 4G data plans is stupid. I'd rather be childish than stupid.
Re:Well, duh (Score:5, Interesting)
I think the real problem with Apple users is how clueless they are about technology. Cell phone towers are easily overloaded so you really shouldn't use them for things like backups. Wait until you get home or go to your public library or starbucks or something.
myopic and misplaced. that's like bitching that the problem with ford owners is that they don't understand the engineering behind road design. this is not a failing of the user; this is a failing of the cell phone providers to scale up their architecture appropriately for new technology. they absolutely had to know that every new generation of phone is bringing new ways to use data, and that they're selling them more now than ever, and that people are becoming permanently "connected" more and more by the hour. instead of spending their record-breaking profits on new laws and huge bonuses they could have been expanding their network capabilities and increasing service levels and satisfaction. but hey, screwing customers and litigating show up prettier on this quarter's reports.
Re:Well, duh (Score:4, Interesting)
The fact that the phone doesn't do the work and what they said is transmitted to Apple doesn't seem to register with most people.
It also doesn't matter to most people.
Re:Well, duh (Score:5, Interesting)
As a developer I find the APIs around iCloud are what make it interesting, and more than just storage. The file coordination APIs let an app on one device say "I'm about to show the user this file", and iCloud will tell another device that's currently editing the file "hey, the user wants to see that file on another device, please save it now" and send the diffs to iCloud, which sends the diffs to the device so the user gets the current version of the document without having to manually save it. I'm not aware of any other cloud type storage system that does this.
Re:Well, duh (Score:5, Interesting)