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Originally posted by Desperate Fantast
****in' NO Siri?? Steve would never have allowed this mess.
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I can basically guarantee Steve has had his hand in both this and the iPhone 5(and probably even in next years phone and tablet), so he definitely would have, and did, allow it. These products are not just whipped up in the year between release, they are worked and planned concurrently with others.
The only reason I can see for the iPad not supporting Siri is because most of Siri's actual computing is done in the cloud through servers. iPhones can use siri because phones are basically always connected to the internet. However since the vast majority of iPads sold are wifi only models and often are without a connection, they didn't want to bother with the inconsistences that would arise with the 4G/3G models able to always use Siri and the wifi's to only work some of the time.
But yeah, I agree, I still think the iPad should support full Siri support, not just the dictation, regardless.