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Apple Awarded U.S. Trademark for Mac Startup Chime
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E major vs G-flat major
As I recall the last chord of "A Day in the Life" is an E major chord. The chord displayed in this post is G-flat (tuned to slightly higher than usual A 440). Also, the chord at the opening of "Hard Days Night" is an open set of guitar strings (E-A-D-G-B-E).
As I recall the last chord of "A Day in the Life" is an E major chord. The chord displayed in this post is G-flat (tuned to slightly higher than usual A 440). Also, the chord at the opening of "Hard Days Night" is an open set of guitar strings (E-A-D-G-B-E).
The same sound was used in a Pixar movie, WALL-E, when he recharged to 100%.
Yeah - Apple should sue those guys...
All black keys. For "The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes."
the Apple power chord sounded best on my 2008-era iMac. Something about the speaker design gave it a nice soft, full sound to it. It sounded pretty good on my 1st-gen macbook pro as well. On my current Mac Pro, it sounds atrocious. Worst internal speaker(s?) EVER.
I think it's tuned slightly lower.
A Canuck by the name of Jason Brown ran a Fourier Transform on that chord; here's a link to the paper he wrote for the curious: http://www.mscs.dal.ca/~brown/n-oct04-harddayjib.pdf
Why are you shutting your Mac down? No need. Just put it to sleep.
And I think holding down the Option key during bootup silences the tone. haven't used that trick in several years, so I forget the exact key. You could always hold your hands over the speaker grills. haha
I sense an Apple-Pixar lawsuit coming up.
There ought to be a setting in a control panel to mute the startup sound. Why that has never materialized is beyond me.
Apple's standard for usability is whether the machine works the way you work or whether you have to work the way the computer requires you. I've long wanted a way to mute the startup sound. My iMac is in my bedroom and I often start it up at night when my wife is in there sleeping. If I forgot to mute it last time I shut down (i.e., the machine requiring me work its way), I accidentally wake her up.
Beyond that, I question the value of the startup sound beyond branding. I'm not sure what purpose it serves or why Apple has retained that one aspect of the Macs from the old days when they so readily jettisoned everything else.
Well, one purpose it serves is to let you know that pressing one of the various boot option keys will actually do something after that point. (You've got from the 'booong' to the 'loading wheel' to get the key(s) pressed, or you've missed the opportunity.)
And to let you know that it's actually in the process of booting. (The same function as the standard POST-codes on PCs.)
I think it used to be the Mute button (on a Mac keyboard, obviously) but I haven't tested this in a while, and I'm sure not since I upgraded to Mountain Lion.
It's not music, it's a sound logo. Some other companies that have trademarked sound logos you may know are Intel, NBC, 20th Century Fox, McDonalds ("I'm lovin' it"), THX.
Thank you. I hadn't heard of its implementation in the form of a sound.
I understand the difference. I wasn't aware if there was any overlap in laws there.
Collections of notes can be registered as trade marks, another example is the intel 4 note jingle which is instantly recongnisable. These sounds or jingles are associated with a trade entity like a product or company so are essentially no different to a logo and therefore eligible to be registered.
Trademarked sounds aren't just limited to musical ones, MGM has the lion roar (obviously only possible to be trademarked within the limited scope of movie logos), certain sirens, etc. Harley davidson tried to trademark the sound of their motorcycle engine, but gave up after a few years debating it in the courts.
Hint: big smiley face generally means the user is joking.
Hint: big smiley face generally means the user is joking.
Jim Reekes and the Mac Startup Sound
Jim did some work for our company a few years back. He is a brilliant guy -- great product design mind. No doubt his skills were honed by trying to make Steve happy.
Congrats, Jim (and Apple). Great work. I continue to love the startup sound every time I fire up a Macintosh. It still brings a slight smile to my face...especially with the speaker quality of the MBP with Retina Display.
Cheers,
SB
Jim did some work for our company a few years back. He is a brilliant guy -- great product design mind. No doubt his skills were honed by trying to make Steve happy.
Congrats, Jim (and Apple). Great work. I continue to love the startup sound every time I fire up a Macintosh. It still brings a slight smile to my face...especially with the speaker quality of the MBP with Retina Display.
Cheers,
SB
I forgot that sometimes the humor-impairment on this site can create confusion, so below is an annotated version of my post to help out.
I had sort of a freelance job for some years, and the organization furnished me with a laptop for being able to do that work (single digit hours per month). It was a "nice" Wintel laptop, a Fujitsu with an i5, good battery and not too heavy.
Funny thing was, every single time i started the machine, the fans would ramp up to 100% for the first 15 seconds (after which the machine was agreeable silent).
I much prefer a chime to that...
RGDS,
Pixar has very close ties with Apple since Steve Jobs was a majority stakeholder in Pixar prior to it being acquired by Disney. It's why you'll also notice the "Apple car" in the Pixar movie "Cars", as well
It's a 'predictive programming' project being secretly run by Apple, to get people ready for the future of technology.
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Providers interested in measuring the outcomes of their patients are better providers. However, the field of behavioral health continues to struggle on how to measure the outcomes of treatment.
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Surprised this was the only comment close to the truth of this sound. I wonder if this happening (or being announced) on 12 12 12 was Steve's intention or just coincidence ? I imagine the former. What a thinker he was. 432 is such an important number and the world has forgotten it.
Sorry to bump an old thread but I hadn't heard of this copywriting until now and found the date of the article interesting and hope there's more of us who think this way.
The BEST "bad" startup sound was the tire screech-crash-breaking glass that the early PowerMacs (6100, 7100, 8100...) made.
BTW: If you have MacTracker for iOS (AppStore), you can play all the "good" startup sounds!
BTW: If you have MacTracker for iOS (AppStore), you can play all the "good" startup sounds!