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Comment by joezydeco | Hacker News Reader

Great story. Now can we please, seven years into the existence of the iPhone, please can we get some new ringtones into the default library?

"Digital" gives me post-traumatic seizures now. Swear to god every other iPhone I hear is using it.

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When you have an iPhone for long enough and use it as your alarm clock, you even start to develop aversions to some of the ringtones.

Applies to ANY Alarm tune. Rule # 1 of Alarm Tunes: Never ever use a song you really like as an Alarm Tune. You will hate it for the rest of your existence.

Then put your little hand in mine, there ain't no hill or mountain we can't climb. Babe... I got you babe...

I have never used any other tone than "Old Phone" - and still prefer it to anything else.

Same here, reason being is that every other default tone is just plain obnoxious or makes no sense as a ring tone. A pinball machine? Church bells?

How about some new sound effects into the default library for Mac OS X? I think those we have are carried over from Mac Classic.

Re: Digital - you must be part of an interesting demographic, of the 500+ iPhones we have at work, I've never heard the Digital ringtone used by anybody for any purpose.

I had an boss that was always running around in my area and his phone would go off every few minutes. Now I think it's just selection bias when I hear it.

I'm currently in a country where there are still a lot of Nokia users. It's literally a vacation to hear the old jingle again.

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