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Re:CDs Curated by Steve Jobs and the iPod Team (2016) by joezydeco on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @03:26PM (#19973909)
Apple Computer was continuously in legal battles with Apple Corps (the record label owned by the Beatles) over staying out of each other’s business (easy for the Beatles, hard for Steve Jobs)

Shipping iPod with Beatles content would have been a really nasty legal knot. Or it would have made the universe implode. One or the other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer

Re:CDs Curated by Steve Jobs and the iPod Team (2016) by wlesieutre on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @04:18PM (#19974456)
A funny tidbit from this saga:

> 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. The creator of the new sound alerts for System 7, Jim Reekes, had grown frustrated with the legal scrutiny and first quipped it should be named "Let It Beep", a pun on The Beatles' "Let It Be". When someone remarked that that would not pass Legal's approval, he remarked, "so sue me". After a brief reflection, he resubmitted the sound's name as sosumi (a homophone of "so sue me"), telling the Legal Department that the name was Japanese and had nothing to do with music.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi

Re:CDs Curated by Steve Jobs and the iPod Team (2016) by duxup on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @03:31PM (#19973949)
I remember that. Seems like a simple idea, but at the time seemed about as doable as cold fusion.
Re:CDs Curated by Steve Jobs and the iPod Team (2016) by favorited on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @05:37PM (#19975327)
When Apple and Apple settled their differences and you could finally get the Beatles on iTunes, Apple Stores played only Beetles music over their sound systems for months. I can only imagine what it was like working there at that point.
Re:CDs Curated by Steve Jobs and the iPod Team (2016) by nothrabannosir on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @06:31PM (#19975804)
> I can only imagine what it was like working there at that point.

Amazing?

Re:CDs Curated by Steve Jobs and the iPod Team (2016) by favorited on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @07:08PM (#19976079)
Working in any environment where you listen to the same 2-hour loop of music for months at a time is rough, when it is the same loop of the same artist?