Siri was a third party app, then it was bought out by Apple, and integrated into iOS. It's only on the 4S so that Apple can sell new phones, and/or the old iPhones aren't powerful enough computationally.

But why can't the old phones use what was apparently good enough before? It's the retroactive but that I don't get.

yeah, I'm not particularly happy about it. Note: Siri before did not have all the capability of the current one, but it was pretty good.

Now, I have Vlingo with a google calendar address book hack to do what I used Siri for (asking Siri to remind me of something at x time while I was driving).

I also use Dragon Go for the other functions Siri used to do.

Meanwhile I can't work out how to get Navigate to recognise names from my address book. The names aren't that screwy! But voice recognition comes back with celebrity names before my contacts. It's pretty decent at taking dictation of English, but speaking a text or email is a luxury. Asking for directions is more important.

I have a question for those of you who are using Pinboard: when the red flares first went up about Delicious, I imported my bookmarks from Delicious to Diigo, looking for a safer harbor. My links and tags came through the transition okay, but I tend towards long descriptions and my descriptions were truncated (Delicious allows up to 1000 characters -- as does Diigo -- but Diigo cut off all the imported Descriptions at 256 characters.) Any new descriptions can be 1000 characters long, but all my old bookmarks are chopped off. That was 10 months ago, and I opened a bug ticket (as well as loads of other people) but they haven’t offered any kind of solution and I don’t want to have to go back and edit each entry individually.

So, my question is, did Pinboard have this kind of issue? When you imported your bookmarks, did everything – links, tags, and the full description – come through?

Because the New Delicious makes me want to knock my head into the wall, and I really, really want to find something else to use.

Morgana,

Pinboard has a money back guarantee if you contact him within x amount of days (maybe 2?) so you could get an account, import and if you don't like it, get your $$ back.

I have been using pinboard for 1-2 months and I really love it. I also love because it works with ifttt.com.

How does ifttt work? I mean, you have to give it all your passwords, right? Hmm.

Is there a massing exodus from Delicious? The alternatives I tried back in the day just were not appealing to me. And even with the changes they've made--if they just rstore the functionality they broke, no sweat.

My inertia, she is large.

I don't believe so. I think for twitter and google I went through oauth.

I did need to provide pw for pinboard.

I think for twitter and google I went through oauth.

Ah, okay.

In a project I'm working on right now we're coming up against third party storage of user passwords, and it's on my mind right now.

yep. I won't let any third-party store my google passwords for any reason.