Recently we have reported that Siri has been successfully ported to iPhone 4 and iPod touch 4G. Not only that it also has been successfully connected to the Apple servers. Now you must be wondering why the two developers chpwn and stroughtonsmith didn’t release it yet?
Siri On iPhone 4 Release Date
chpwn, The developer behind porting Siri to iPhone 4 has
blogged why they can’t release how to install Siri on your iPhone 4 now.
Why? Because Apple owns the copyright on the software, images, and data used inside iOS. So Siri files shouldn’t be extracted from iPhone 4S or from iOS 5.
How to get Siri on your iPhone 4 Legally?
The only way is buy extracting the files from your own iPhone 4S and then will can run it on any device you want to run it on. But, if you already have an iPhone 4S, You already have Siri and don’t need to port it.
Just from that, you currently must already own an iPhone 4S to install Siri on it without a blatant copyright violation. But even that’s not all: if you do all of that, there’s still a few more reasons why Siri won’t just work.
Is There is another way to port Siri to older iOS devices?
The issue with the second method is more technical: the firmware files are distributed encrypted, and we do not yet have the decryption key to access the Siri files inside of the iPhone 4S firmware file.
But…
When we have the ability to decrypt the encrypted iPhone 4S firmware file — to extract the Siri files legally, without the need for an iPhone 4S — and we have an iPhone 4S jailbreak to obtain the other nececssary information at a mass scale, hopefully this can become a reality and everyone can try out Siri on their older devices. Until then, showing you a video that it is possible is the best we can do.
So, We are hoping to see the iPhone 4S jailbroken soon so that we can get Siri on older iOS devices.
