What is the ringtone called when the iPhone is buzzing?

It’s the marimba

The year was 2005, when Nokia dominated mobile phones. According to statistics at the time, Nokia’s default ringtone sounded 1.8 billion times a day. I don’t know whether it was due to hearing fatigue or because it was a competitor, but Jobs hated this ringtone very much. At that time, secret research and development had begun to replace popular low-quality ringtones and MIDI format ringtones with high-fidelity music.

In that era, mobile phone ringtones had become an important business worth billions of dollars for mobile phone manufacturers. Some ringtones could even be sold for $5 per unit, but Apple never sold them. As an important business of iPhone. At the beginning, Jobs allowed iPhone users to use iTunes music files to generate personalized ringtones, but this meant that Apple needed to fight with music copyright companies. In desperation, Jobs had no choice but to choose built-in ringtones. This led to the acquisition of an audio studio and the development of ringtones we mentioned earlier. When it was finally released, a total of 25 ringtones were selected. These ringtones are still retained today, including Including the default ringtone: "Marimba".

It is said that the hearing range of the human ear is between 2-4KHz and the dynamic range is between 0-96dB, so the ringtone should be in the middle of this range. Research results prove that rhythmic ringtones lasting 3 to 5 seconds are more conducive to brain recognition. The "marimba" has the qualities that a ringtone should have, conforms to the definition of an ideal ringtone, and most importantly, it conforms to Jobs's personal aesthetic orientation.