Original Macintosh developers lost a lawsuit against Apple Records, the Beatles' multimedia corporation, because they broke a promise to never enter the music business with their…
Original Macintosh developers lost a lawsuit against Apple Records, the Beatles' multimedia corporation, because they broke a promise to never enter the music business with their computers; the real kicker is that years earlier, Apple Computer engineers actually named their internal sound file format "Sosumi" as a childish, phonetic middle finger to the Beatles' lawyers, and this level of petty, multi-million-dollar corporate passive-aggression is truly inspiring, showing that underneath all the sleek minimalist design and pretentious keynote speeches, tech pioneers were basically just angry teenagers who knew how to code!

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