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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. Not to be confused by trumpetplayer · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Tri-tone as in "melody using 3 tones", not to be confused with the tritone interval http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritone which is considered the most dissonant interval there is in the so called just intonation system.

  2. Re:ass pounder v.1.0 by pongo000 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    All I can say is never in a million years did I think I would ever search for "wombat turds." Even more surreal is this video. I'm just astounded. Fuck the iPhone tritone, this is far more interesting....