The United States Patent and Trademark Office has awarded Apple a patent for the startup chime sound. But that sound hasn’t always been the same. Here you have all the Apple startup chimes since the original Macintosh, released in 1984.
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The last three in this video (Quadra AV, Performa 6400 and iMac) are put together well - descending semitones, which makes me want to resolve it to make the iconic "sad trombone" sound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC75aU47GRk
Yes, I'm a music nerd...
So. Much. I. Agree. With. This.
-Also a music nerd.
They actually get worse over time, the last one sounds like it's broken.
You can patent a sound??? I can understanding copyrighting a sound but how can you deny that sounds don't have prior art?
See. That's the first thing to come to my mind.
Come up with a word.
Via 'social marketing', make it as 'hip' as this generations persistent use of 'swag'.
Sue everyone who uses it in a 'tweet' or 'status'.
'Profit'.
Yes you can patent a sound, Harley Motorcycles have a patent for their engine sound.
But what are Apple going to say if another company uses a similar sound, will they use the round corners argument.
I always hated those later ones -power Mac and up. The early ones were way better.
How about the sad mac tones. I think they're better. Shattering glass always freaked the customers out.
How about including vacuum cleaner mode start up on the G5, that was funny.