If you are one of the geek who get into the nitty-gritty details of a products you might notice that every time an iPhone or the iPad is launched it has a the time either 9:41 or 9:42 on it. EVERY SINGLE TIME. Even the Official images on the Apple website will have the same time.
All promotional images of the iPhone show the time as 9:42 AM. Nobody knew the exact reason why!
But we have the real and logical reason behind this iPhone/iPad 9:42 9:41 mystery, answer is right via the horses mouth.
“We design the keynotes so that the big reveal of the product happens around 40 minutes into the presentation. When the big image of the product appears on screen, we want the time shown to be close to the actual time on the audience’s watches. But we know we won’t hit 40 minutes exactly.”
“So you add a couple of minutes.”
“Yeah! And for the iPhone, we made it 42 minutes. It turned out we were pretty accurate with that estimate, so for the iPad, we made it 41 minutes. And there you are the secret of the magic time.”
So this is the reason, not big deal, it’s as simple as it gets 😉