Apple’s latest phone, the iPhone 4S had something really interesting in it, Siri. Siri has probably revolutionized the entire way we communicate with our mobile phone. Now, Siri’s founder, Dag Kittlaus reveals that Steve Jobs did not like the name Siri but thought the people who worked on Siri has cracked it.
The Founder and now Apple Engineering Director, Dag Kittlaus, reveals some more information about how they ended up working with Apple. He says that Steve Jobs called him up and wanted him to come over to his house the next day and they both spent about 3 hours in his house, talking about how Siri is performing and how Apple would win among the other competitors.
Here’s a excerpt from the talk he made to Network World:
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.
You can get a glimpse of the entire talk here at Network World.