Sosumi

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

The unusual name of the sound is due to a legal dispute with Apple Corps, the holding company of the Beatles that connects with Apple Computer a far -reaching process of back - story because of the name. With the release of System 7, a legal battle over the newly integrated into the products of Apple Computer 's MIDI capabilities was settled.

The lawyers of Apple Corps tested every sound aspect of the computer. During the development of System 7, the name of the new system tones was objected " to the music ".

The creator of the new sounds for System 7 and the Macintosh start-up sound, Jim Reekes was always frustrated revenge because of the legal checks and wanted. First Reekes meant for fun, the sound should Let It Beep hot, a nod to the Beatles song Let It Be, called him then but Sosumi what to pronounce in English so sue me ( in German as much as Sue Me yet ).

The two Apple companies came in 1991 to an agreement. However, Apple Records sought a decade later a process of after Apple Computer started iPods and music from the iTunes Music Store for sale. The key terms of the agreement of 1991 were released at a hearing in February 2005.

The name of the sound is now also hidden as a little joke on Apple's website. There is wearing a CSS class used for legal notices such as copyright information, this name; but this is only seen in the source code of the page: