Every time you take a photo with an iPhone, you are actually hearing the shutter sound of a Canon film camera

There are a few phone sounds that are recognizable by pretty much every person in the civilized world these days and the sound of the iPhone camera is certainly one of them, on par with the Marimba ringtone and that signature early 2000s Nokia ringtone.

Now, the man behind this and a few other notable computer sounds speaks up to tell the fascinating story of a sound engineer with a sense of humor and the audacity to cheat Apple's own software review system in order to change a bad sound to a new one. His name is Jim Reekes and he worked for Apple in its early days, ...