Steve Jobs didn’t like the name “Siri”….
Siri founder Dag Kittlaus chats about how Steve Jobs was dazzled by Siri, but how he didn’t like the name “Siri” much — the way he apparently didn’t like the name “Mac”.
Kittlaus recounted that Jobs wasn’t sold on the Siri name. Kittlaus, therefore, kept lobbying Steve Jobs to keep the Siri name, telling him quite consistently that “it’s a great name.”
Still, Jobs wanted to use something else, but failing to find anything better, decided to stick with “Siri”. What’s particularly interesting about this is that there are similar stories regarding the naming process behind the iMac and the iPod – two products with names Jobs reportedly didn’t care for either but ultimately acquiesced to after not being able to find better alternatives.
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