The Problem with Siri Downtime ⇥

Ben Brooks:

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

Apple already has the infrastructure to notify users that Siri is down, in the form of push notifications. Though, to be fair, Apple also (theoretically) has the infrastructure to have no Siri downtime at all, in the form of a big-ass data centre in North Carolina. A keen observer would note that reality rarely matches expectations.