What is the significance of 9:42 AM?

[infobhan]

Maybe this has been stated somewhere, but why do all the iPhone videos have the time set to 9:42 AM? Is there some significance to this? Did something happen at the original iPhone announcement at 9:42? Is this some internal Apple reference?

[siurpeeman]

on august 29, 2007, 9:42am, three billion human lives will end. the survivors of the nuclear fire will call it judgment day. they'll live only to face a new nightmare: the war against the machines.

[Mal]

Probably some internal joke, they've been known to do things like that. I think Steve even carried that over to Pixar, because they do it a lot too (having songs, pictures, etc, from previous films). I'd love to hear the story, but I doubt we will, at least not until some time down the road when it's nostalgic.

jW

[LxTxNx]

It's the average time humas wake up in Palo Alto California...

[xsedrinam]

It does sync with the timeframe it was introduced (http://www.gadgetell.com/wp-print.php?p=6156), though I've spotted at least one which shows 9:41 when Jobs was cued to say, “every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. Apple has been very fortunate recently…".
http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/iphone3.jpg, so who knows for sure?

[rdrr]

take the two and nine and you have 29th... you take the four and June has four letters in it. Yes, yes I know that July has four letters in it as well, but it is an odd month, the seventh of twelve, so June is the only logical month it could be

:D ;) :D :cool:

/rdrr, Puts on tin-foil hat...

[mcarnes]

on august 29, 2007, 9:42am, three billion human lives will end. the survivors of the nuclear fire will call it judgment day. they'll live only to face a new nightmare: the war against the machines.

Heh, I loved Blade Runner. :D

[DaftUnion]

Actually it's from Terminator.

[mcarnes]

Actually it's from Terminator.

:p I was joking, but thanks for the correction.

[MartyMoe]

Actually it's from Terminator.

I think he was just trying to play with our minds...

Not fair to me. My mind is not big enough to be allowed out on it's own at this time.
:D

[Aniej]

it is the time in the morning when jobs was born

[mustang_dvs]

on august 29, 2007, 9:42am, three billion human lives will end. the survivors of the nuclear fire will call it judgment day. they'll live only to face a new nightmare: the war against the machines.

Bear in mind that the boot-up sequence of the Cyberdine Systems T-800 Series Model 101 terminator did contain a number of Macintosh libraries and kernel extensions, including Quicktime (http://www.wileywiggins.com/terminator.jpg)... hmmmmm....:eek:

[mac jones]

It's a joke I'm sure

[timmypv15]

It was exactly 9:42 in the morning in January when they unveiled it at Macworld. The only other thing I can think of, is that they just picked a time so that when they do the commercials, they won't have to match up the time or anything, because I'm sure they did a **** load of editing.

[bobthedino]

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/59824

They always aim to unveil the new product about 40 mins into their presentations, and they try to make the clock on the product match the actual time.