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| Apple's iPhone 6 |
I
found this news item on Yahoo!
brilliant and it brought back fond memories of the late Steve Jobs' era.
The
author, Rob Waugh notes that in every Apple advert, one seemingly tiny detail
is always the same -- the time on iPhone’s screen. He writes:
In
the adverts for iPad and recent iPhones such as iPhone 6, it says 9.41.
In
the very first adverts for iPhone, it read 9.42.
Question-and-answer
site Quora.com threw light on exactly why this week -- and it’s all down to the
late Steve Jobs’ determination to get the launch of the first iPhone exactly
right.
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| The late Steve Jobs with the iPhone |
When
Jobs first announced iPhone, he wanted the phone to be “frozen” at the time he
announced it on stage at MacWorld.
Quora
writer Brian Roemmele says, “On January 9, 2007 at 9:00 a.m. Steve Jobs took
the stage at the 2007 Macworld Conference & Expo and just about 35 minutes into
his presentation he said, ‘This is a day I have been looking forward to for
two-and-a-half years…’
“And
at just about 9:42 a.m. Steve announced the iPhone. Thus frozen in time is the
near exact time the iPhone was officially announced.”
Since
then, Apple presentations have got a bit shorter, and newer iPhones such as
iPhone 6 were announced at 9.41 -- hence the time on screen!
