Siri Apple iPhone 4 hack gets Apple server support
Apple disappointed many iPhone 4 owners with the news that Siri, the digital personal assistant technology, would only be available on the new Apple iPhone 4S , and efforts quickly began to hack Siri onto the older smartphone. Developer Steve Troughton-Smith got the local app running with no problems, but faced Apple’s servers refusing to play ball with anything but the newest iPhone. Now, with the judicious application of some validation tokens from an Apple iPhone 4S , it’s possible to get Siri on the iPhone 4 and iPod touch up and running, even without official support from Apple itself. “It does require files from an Apple iPhone 4S which aren’t ours to distribute, and it also requires a validation token from the Apple iPhone 4S that has to be pulled live from a jailbroken Apple iPhone 4S , and it’s about a 20-step process right now” Steve Troughton-Smith, developer Still, you shouldn’t expect to see a public release of this particular Siri hack any time soon, at...