10 Reasons Not To Jailbreak Your iPhone 4/3GS to Install Siri

Siri is a new generation speech-recognition application that utilizes the best of artificial intelligence. Unlike other applications like google voice search, you can speak to Siri, and it can speak back to you. Unfortunately, Siri is only available on the iPhone 4S and Apple has no plans to add Siri to older iPhones. But within a few days after iPhone 4S has released, there were workarounds available to get siri on iPhone 4/3GS. Many users have to taken their phone to jailbreaking to add Siri, but it 'll not be a good idea if jailbreaking and workarounds not operate the way they should. www.eweek.com published the top 10 reasons not to jailbreak iPhone to install siri.

1. Security troubles:  jailbraeking is justlike rooting in android causes, security holes to produce.  This causes malicious files to downloaded to your device without your permission which lets your device to security threats.

2. Copyright violation: Extracting encrypted Siri files to get the virtual personal assistant running on the iPhone simply violate Apple’s copyright.

3. Makes iOS unstable: Jailbreaking the device will allow you to add more features and installing several apps in the expense of creating an unstable OS environment.

4. Siri is Not the Greatest: Most people will like to play with Siri only for a few days but after, it starts to lose some fun part, since it wont respond like you expect for some sophisticated queries.

5. Apple May Fight back!: The company doesn't responded about the actions against Siri hacks till now but there are chances because they encrypted the RAM disks on iOS 5.0.1 may be considered as an opening.

6. Chances of bricking the device: If you've not completed the jailbreaking steps successfully, there is a fair amount of chances that you bricked the iPhone. Note that these workarounds voids warranty. Here's what apple's official response to jailbreaking.

7. Alternatives to Siri available: Applications like Siri that supports voice control are available in Apple’s App Store. Apps like Vlingo and Dragon Go are not upto mark as Siri but are awfully close.

8. Legality Problems: Actually if you want Siri in your iPhone 4 or iPhone 3GS, you need iPhone 4S tokens from someone else’s device. 

9. Renewing iPhone 4S tokens: Apple generates the token for iPhone 4S that lasts for a single day. You need to get the newly generated token every 24 hours to keep running Siri. this indicates that keeping the app at running conditions requires lot's of attention from your side.

10. Siri may be officially available for older devices in 2012: Chances are there the new features like that available to older products over time after making its way to iPad 3 and iPhone 5.

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