529. Why The Time is Always Set To 9:41 In Apple Ads?
That time used to be 9:42 . You could see it across various commercials, print ads, and even on Apple's site itself. The explanation was simple: That's the time in the morning that Steve Jobs announced the very first iPhone in 2007. Around 42 minutes into his keynote address, he said, "Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone."
And a picture of the iPhone, displaying the time 9:42, popped up on the screen behind him.
But that all changed in 2010, when the very first iPad was released. When that was revealed, it displayed a different time: 9:41. The time was changed for no reason at all.