(CNN) -- Apple's voice assistant took an extended coffee break on Thursday. Asked by the blog VentureBeat what she'd been doing during an apparent service outage, Siri, the voice-controlled "assistant" that's the standout feature of the new iPhone 4S, replied in a way that would raise any employer's eyebrows: She just listed the names of a bunch of day spas. "Siri where have you been all day?" the blogger asked. Her response: "I found 12 places matching 'All Day' ... 11 of them are not far from you." Well, at least she responded. For much of Thursday -- five hours, according to CNN's partner site Fortune -- Apple's voice-controlled assistant wasn't functioning at all for some people, apparently because of a server outage.
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Siri, Apple's voice assistant, experienced an outage on Thursday
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Apple has not commented on the reported outage
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Siri is a feature of the new iPhone 4S that answers questions
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Some iPhone owners have come to depend on her since phone's release three weeks ago
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