Remember when Apple Records (owned by the Beatles) sued Apple Computers in the late 70s over trademark infringement? The settlement was for a sum of money and an agreement that Apple Computers would not enter the music industry. To comply, all of the early Apple alert sound were non-musical things like frogs croaking and ducks quacking.
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@TisTree The other odd Apple one is that they didn't own 'Macintosh' - they had to license that from someone else