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Behind the Story of the iPhone's Default Text Tone
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.
I know that the Slashdot editors get a lot of stick for apparently being asleep at the wheel, but taking the time to add the original source article and not just the blog provided in the original submission is very welcome.
No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
Or in this case the attention to detail of a sound designer creating a sound effect for a different product that Apple would eventually buy out, and reuse the sound from in another completely different product for a completely different purpose.
Kudos to Apple for picking a sound out of all the possible Apple-owned sound effects that sounds appropriately "messagey", especially in comparison to the specially-composed ring- and message-tones it had to compete with, but the nerdly attention to detail belongs to someone else.
No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
The story of some cute beeps and boops is a pretty low threshold for fascination.
Captcha: Teh Shiny!
Who leaves the default tones on/leaves clocks blinking/etc?
People who have better things to do with their lives.
But, yes, we're the (screaming, bitching, whining, butthurt) moron.
"Know and love"
When I hear that sound I think (a) asshole should set her damn phone to silent instead of annoying everyone around her (b) uncreative as she's too lazy to pick something more original (c) probably wants to show off her iGadjetness as a fashion statement which makes her seem even more shallow
Yes, I'm aware these thoughts may reflect poorly on myself as well