Sosumi

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Sosumi is one of the system-tones in the operating system Apple Macintosh System 7. It's an extremely short sample of a xylophone . The system sound is still in the newer versions of the Mac OS used, including Mac OS X .

The unusual name of the clay comes from a legal dispute with Apple Corps , the Beatles holding company , which has a long history of litigation in connection with Apple Computer due to the name. With the release of System 7, a dispute over the new MIDI capabilities built into Apple Computer's products was resolved.

Apple Corps lawyers checked every sound aspect of the computer . During the development of System 7, the name of one of the new system tones was criticized as " too musical ".

The creator of the new Tones for System 7 and the Macintosh Startup Tone, Jim Reekes, was getting more and more frustrated with legal reviews and wanted revenge. At first Reekes said for fun that the tone should be Let It Beep , a reference to the Beatles song Let It Be , but then called it Sosumi , which is pronounced so sue me in English (in German, as much as Verklag mich but ).

The two Apple companies came to an agreement in 1991. Still, Apple Records went back to court a decade later after Apple Computer began selling iPods and music through the iTunes Music Store . The key terms of the 1991 agreement were made public at a hearing in February 2005.

The name of the clay is still hidden as a little joke on Apple's website today. There is a CSS class , used for legal information such as B. the copyright information, this name; but this can only be seen in the source code of the page: 

  <div class="sosumi"> 
   <p class="copyright">Copyright © 2013 Apple Inc. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.</p> 
   ...

The name of the CSS class is an obvious reference to the tone and its history.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jennifer 8 Lee: The Sound and the Fury: Beating Back the Beep . In: The New York Times . August 19, 1999, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed July 23, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Jeniece Pettitt: Meet the man who created Apple's most iconic sounds - Sosumi, the camera click and the start-up chord. March 24, 2018, accessed on July 23, 2020 .
  3. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: Apple versus Apple: Who will be allowed to call themselves "Apple" in the future? - DER SPIEGEL - Netzwelt. Retrieved July 23, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Apple. Retrieved on July 23, 2020 (American English, in order to display the source text, the F12 key is sufficient in common desktop browsers, the entry can be found under "stylesheets".).