Siri Hafso Has A Bone To Pick With Apple. She Is Seeking A Gift For The Years Of Jokes On Her Name

A woman named Siri wants justice. Or at least some reparation for the jokes she has had to endure over the years, courtesy the Apple innovation of a virtual assistant named like herself. In a letter addressed to Tim Cook, CEO of the tech giant, US-based Siri Hafso raised her concerns and a single, simple demand.

She wants an Apple laptop for her 30th birthday.

In a lengthy letter, Hafso asked Cook if there was a MacBook Apple could spare that would ease her "aging eyes" with a bigger screen that is better to work and Zoom call her students on. "It could be one that is sitting on a shelf in storage, one that is missing the letter F or one that is refurbished after having one too many coffees spilled on its keyboard," she says.

Her request to Cook is appended to a narration of years of her experience with her name, starting from childhood right up until Apple's voice assistant Siri was launched in 2011.

"Up until 2011, I was the kid who could never find their name on a keychain at the souvenir shop," she

Hi @Apple! I wrote a letter to your CEO. Can you spare a computer in return for years and YEARS of Siri jokes? #heysiri pic.twitter.com/NVuvszF2Kv

— Siri Hafso (@sirihaf) May 22, 2021 "What once was "what's the origin of your name, I've never heard it" is now "Siri? Like the iPhone?" To which I reply no... it's the iPhone like me! Or sometimes it's "your name is Siri? That's so funny!" To which I reply, I didn't laugh when you told me your name's Robert!"

If given a laptop, she says, she would willingly give precedence to Apple's Siri when asked her name. "why yes, it is Siri like the iPhone."

See her letter below: 

Hi @Apple! I wrote a letter to your CEO. Can you spare a computer in return for years and YEARS of Siri jokes? #heysiri pic.twitter.com/NVuvszF2Kv

— Siri Hafso (@sirihaf) May 22, 2021

Hafso has posted her letter on TikTok via a video as well, asking viewers to relay her request to Apple.

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The letter, not devoid of humour, also elaborates at length Hafso's loyalty to Apple, despite the messy sitch it brought into her life starting 2011. "My parents gave me a MacBook for my 2009 high school graduation present. I sold my Android on Craigslist for money to buy an iPhone... My MacBook was my partner in crime till it took its final breath in 2014... I have been using my trusty iPad Air 2 ever since."

An actor-dancer, Hafso says she lost her job during the pandemic and has remained without one for the majority of 2021. "I was able to teach dance virtually here and there using my iPad which was great, however, it has started to slow down significantly," she writes, setting the stage to put forward the favour she asks.

"I pray for your sake that nobody ever comes out with a competitor brand called 'Banana' and if they do, they don't name their operating system 'Tim.' If it happens... I promise it wasn't me," she writes, signing off her letter to Cook

What's in name? Evidently, a lot. And Siri Hafso will tell you that.