Steve Jobs Didn’t Like The Siri Name, What About You ?!

In late October Apple introduced iPhone 4S a new and amazing whole Apple device but of course Apple didn’t stop by this move but it introduced with it Siri one of the best and most interesting digital assistant exclusive to the iPhone 4S. All Apple users began buying iPhone 4S especially to try Siri and have a conversation with it because really it’s awesome. But what don’t you know that Dag Kittlaus the guy who made Siri said that Steve Jobs didn’t like the “Siri” name, that’s what Dag said in his talk after Steve death.

For those who don’t know, “Siri” name is leading to “beautiful woman who leads you to victory.” But from the last week  Dag Kittlaus wrote a report talking about how he came up with Siri name and why the late CEO of Apple Steve Jobs didn’t like this name as in my opinion it looks a great name..

Yoni Heisler of NetworkWorld quotes Kittlaus on choosing the name of Siri:

I worked with a lady named Siri in Norway and wanted to name my daughter Siri and the domain was available. And also consumer companies need to focus on the fact that the name is easy to spell, is easy to say…

Previous news articles also asserted that Kittlaus named its startup after the famous Norwegian meteorologist and business woman Siri Kalvig, with whom he had worked during his tenure at Telenor, a Norwegian telecommunications company. At the time, Kalvig worked for meteorologist company Storm.

After Kittlaus knew that Steve Jobs didn’t like Siri name he had to persuade Apple’s chief executive quite consistently that “it’s a great name”. Anyway you must read the below Phone call that happened between Steve Jobs and Kittlaus where he went to Steve home and had a talk with each others.

Three weeks after we launched I got a call in the office from someone at Apple that said, “Scott Forstall wants to talk to you and he’s the head software guy.”

And I said sure…

Only it wasn’t Scott that called it was Steve. And Steve never announces where he’s gonna be and what he’s gonna do because there’s too much commotion around it. So he said, “Dag, this is Steve Jobs.”

And he wanted me to come over to his house the next day, and I did, and I spent 3 hours with him in front of his fireplace having this surreal conversation about the future.

And, you know, he talked about why Apple was going to win, and we talked about how Siri was doing. And he was very excited about the fact that.. you know, he was very interested in this area in general but, you know, they’re patient, they don’t jump on anything until they feel they can go after something new and he felt that we cracked it. So that was his attraction.

I ended up very lucky, timing wise. I got to work with him for a year before he got real sick. And he’s pretty incredible. The stories are true. All of the stories.

But what  Dag Kittlaus says that Siri made him and other co-founders into millionaires as the Apple’s sales just from the iPhone 4S because of Siri was $200 million dollars. that’s a great number.

So what about you ?! Do you think Siri name is awesome or not ?! Share your thoughts.