This is why it’s always 9:41 in Apple product photos

Oct10

by Sindy Cator on October 10, 2016 at 5:47 pm

I’m not observant enough to have spotted this. Apparently, Apple’s product images for both the iPhone and iPad always feature the device displaying the time at 9:41. After catching a Business Insider video, and then checking out other posts from as far back as 2014, it checks out — Apple is enamored with timeliness. The time actually used to be 9:42. Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone in 2007. The announcement time happened to be 9:42 AM, which led to a host of subsequent product shots featuring that time. Apple’s reasoning was simple, although it doesn’t actually work out that way…