Siri’s Awareness of its Downtime

Ben Brooks a week ago:

Siri should tell me from the moment I activate it whether, or not, what I am about to do is going to work.

John Gruber, today:

“I’m really sorry about this, but I can’t take any requests right now.”

I got this yesterday afternoon, trying to use Siri. Seems like Apple has added a bit of self awareness regarding Siri’s online availability