That's going to require some bandwidth, but no more than if you were having a phone conversation for the same duration of time. If you are listening to internet radio on your phone, it's the equivalent of a few seconds.
And the reply? Text to speech technology is sufficiently advanced to do that entirely within the iPhone. So, all they have to do is send back the text. But, there are cases where the entire process is done within the iPhone.
I use far more bandwidth surfing FR while I'm at lunch. Someone would have to be talking to Siri non-stop to use up as much bandwidth. And, I don't use more than about 500 megabytes/month.
I think this is a classic false correlation. The iPhone 4 was faster than the 3G, and the iPhone 4S is faster than the iPhone 4 -- not just in CPU speed, but in maximum download speeds. Better response times usually yield higher utilization, because the user can do more stuff in the same interval of time.
That's going to require some bandwidth, but no more than if you were having a phone conversation for the same duration of time. If you are listening to internet radio on your phone, it's the equivalent of a few seconds.
Exactly. The reason iPhone 4S users typically use more bandwidth is not Siri, but the phone in general. It supports the fastest network standard available, and the people that buy the phone expect to be able to use that bandwidth! Bandwidth consumption is only going to grow.
This WaPo nattering nabob of negativism just needed to fill a news hole.