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Behind the Story of the iPhone's Default Text Tone

Posted by timothy on from the it's-the-little-things dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a fascinating post from Kelly Jacklin, the long time Apple software engineer details how he helped create the default text alert sound on the iPhone — a sound otherwise known as 'Tri-tone.' The history of the the pleasant text alert sound that we've all come to know and love stretches all the way back to 1998, nearly 10 years before the iPhone ever hit store shelves." Here's Jacklin's post.

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  1. Re:ass pounder v.1.0 by BrokenHalo · · Score: 5, Funny

    how many iphones can you pack in your ass at once without leakage?

    I don't think the wombat features highly in the /. demographic:

    As you splash along the track
    Eyes alert and ears pinned back
    You might have seen those queer square turds
    And thought, if not expressed in words

    The stress of such a defecation
    Baffles ones' imagination
    But it's not done to entertain us -
    The Wombat has an oblong anus.

    So if your slumber is disturbed
    By cries and screams, don't be perturbed.
    Eyes closed, teeth clenched and racked with pain
    A Wombat's gone and crapped again!!
    HTH