Some engineers at Apple were not happy with the change.
“Our excuse was it’s too risky to take it back out at this point because something could crash,” he said. “We just made up some bulls—.”
It stuck, and years later Apple even trademarked the start-up sound. It’s one of the few sounds that’s trademarked, along with the NBC chimes and the Intel signature sound.
“Kind of silly right?” Reekes smirked. “I’m playing a c-major chord and it’s famous and it’s a copyright.”
But after more than a decade, Apple got rid of the infamous boot-up chord in its latest models. Now when you turn on your laptop, there is silence.
“Now that there’s no startup sound, it’s like sitting down at a restaurant and there’s no one there to greet you,” Reekes said. “It’s it just feels strange.”