14 DAY TRIAL // Hacker chpwn - one of the people burning the midnight oil so you can selfishly reap the benefits of a jailbroken device - has made a blog entry dedicated to answering one burning question: “Why not Siri for iPhone 4, iPod touch right now?”
Chpwn’s post is a lengthy one, but a very good read nonetheless. Those who wish to read all about the hurdles imposed by the process of porting Siri to old-gen hardware can go there right now.
Those of you who want it in a nutshell can keep on reading below.
It basically has to do with piracy, says chpwn. If you download the iPhone 4S version of an iOS 5 IPSW and use it on a device that is not the iPhone 4S, you’re committing piracy.
The hacker explains:
“… just because a piece of data is available freely on the internet does not mean that you have the rights to redistribute that data (or any part of it) without an applicable license. In practice, that means that just because certain files are freely available on a device or inside a firmware (.ispw) file freely downloadable from Apple’s website, it does not imply that those files can legally be distributed by anyone else.”
As for the iPad 2, a proper jailbreak is required:
“…the general gist of it is that you almost certainly need the access provided by the a jailbreak to extract all of the information necessary to get Siri working on another device, and that’s not yet availble [sic],” says chpwn. “And, no, I don’t know when it will be.”
The misfit encourages jailbreak fans to “follow along” with him as development continues.
That’s also to show you that hackers don’t necessarily translate to the-bad-guys. And if they don’t appreciate piracy, perhaps that's an example worth following.