When Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak formed Apple Computer, they were sued by
Apple Records, because of the similarity in their names. Apple Computer was
clearly doing something in a field outside of music, but people love to sue
each other. As part of an agreement, they were obviously allowed to keep the
name Apple, provided that they never competed with Apple Records by making
music of any kind.
A few years go by and Apple innovates the idea that computer users might
like to use their machines to record things, so their computers included a
free microphone for that purpose. The sounds they installed for
demonstration purposes were: a simple beep, Quack, the sound of a duck, Wild
Eep, Indigo, Droplet and finally, one staccato E-flat, which was technically
music, so as a way to thumb their noses at Apple Records, they called it
"Sosumi." As far as I'm aware Apple Records did not sue.
R
On 12/4/02 3:22 pm, "Thomas Hofts" <thofts_at_mac.com> wrote:
>
> on 4/12/02 8:33 AM, Ben Smith (QM Systems) at ben.smith_at_qm-systems.com
> wrote:
>
>
>>> What's so funny about Sosumi? Am I missing something here?
>
>>
>> AFAIK it was a poke at Microsoft after a legal battle over system
>> sounds (hence the name 'so sue me')
>> hopefully someone on the list has the full story.
>> Ben.
>>
> As I remember it it was a poke at Apple records (Beatles)
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