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Apple Computer was continuously in legal battles with Apple Corps (the record label owned by the Beatles) over staying out of each other’s business (easy for th

Apple Computer was continuously in legal battles with Apple Corps (the record label owned by the Beatles) over staying out of each other’s business (easy for the Beatles, hard for Steve Jobs) Shipping iPod with Beatles content would have been a really nasty legal knot. Or it would have made the universe implode. One or the other. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer

duxup 7y ago
I remember that. Seems like a simple idea, but at the time seemed about as doable as cold fusion.
wlesieutre 7y ago
A funny tidbit from this saga: > When new sounds for System 7 were created, the sounds were reviewed by Apple's Legal Department who objected that the new sound alert "chime" had a name that was "too musical," under the recent settlement. The creator of the new sound alerts for System 7, Jim Reekes, had grown frustrated with the legal scrutiny and first quipped it should be named "Let It Beep", a pun on The Beatles' "Let It Be". When someone remarked that that would not pass Legal's approval, he remarked, "so sue me". After a brief reflection, he resubmitted the sound's name as sosumi (a homophone of "so sue me"), telling the Legal Department that the name was Japanese and had nothing to do with music. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi
favorited 7y ago
When Apple and Apple settled their differences and you could finally get the Beatles on iTunes, Apple Stores played only Beetles music over their sound systems for months. I can only imagine what it was like working there at that point.
- nothrabannosir 7y ago
  > I can only imagine what it was like working there at that point. Amazing?
  - favorited 7y ago
    Working in any environment where you listen to the same 2-hour loop of music for months at a time is rough, when it is the same loop of the same artist?

duxup 7y ago

I remember that. Seems like a simple idea, but at the time seemed about as doable as cold fusion.

wlesieutre 7y ago

A funny tidbit from this saga: > When new sounds for System 7 were created, the sounds were reviewed by Apple's Legal Department who objected that the new sound alert "chime" had a name that was "too musical," under the recent settlement. The creator of the new sound alerts for System 7, Jim Reekes, had grown frustrated with the legal scrutiny and first quipped it should be named "Let It Beep", a pun on The Beatles' "Let It Be". When someone remarked that that would not pass Legal's approval, he remarked, "so sue me". After a brief reflection, he resubmitted the sound's name as sosumi (a homophone of "so sue me"), telling the Legal Department that the name was Japanese and had nothing to do with music. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi

favorited 7y ago

When Apple and Apple settled their differences and you could finally get the Beatles on iTunes, Apple Stores played only Beetles music over their sound systems for months. I can only imagine what it was like working there at that point.

nothrabannosir 7y ago
> I can only imagine what it was like working there at that point. Amazing?
- favorited 7y ago
  Working in any environment where you listen to the same 2-hour loop of music for months at a time is rough, when it is the same loop of the same artist?