Jim Reekes, the creator of the new sound alerts for System 7, had grown frustrated with the legal scrutiny and first quipped it should be named 'Let It Beep', a pun on ' Let It Be'.

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. As a result, Apple Computer was prohibited from using its trademark on 'creative works whose principal content is music'. The sound has been included in all subsequent versions of Mac OS.ĭuring the development of System 7, the two companies concluded a settlement agreement from an earlier dispute when Apple added a sound synthesis chip to its Apple IIGS machine. Sosumi is a short xylophone sample, which gained notoriety in computer folklore as a defiant pun name, in response to a long-running Apple Corps v. The name is derived from the phrase 'so, sue me!' because of a long running court battle with Apple Corps, the similarly named music company, regarding the use of music in Apple Inc.'s computer products.

Sosumi is an alert sound introduced by Jim Reekes in Apple Inc.'s Macintosh System 7 operating system in 1991.

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