Always wanted to know this...
Anybody knows why or have an idea as to why those number specifically?
Anybody knows why or have an idea as to why those number specifically?
How come the icon for the calendar app can have the correct date but the clock and the weather apps have to one set time/temp?
on the first iPhone the calendar app used to show, i believe it was July 9 and never change.
How come the icon for the calendar app can have the correct date but the clock and the weather apps have to one set time/temp?
Just noticed that the UK icon set uses 23 instead of 73.
Personally, they should make those icons dynamic like the Calendar app. At least the weather app. If they allowed the developers to do that, it would be freaking amazing too. I'd love to see one of the App Store Stocks apps having 2 tickers of your choice being updated periodically on the home screen itself.
The time would update every minute.
The weather would be updated every hour or three, or whenever you traveled to a different town.
Apple doesn't want us wasting battery on such things. Never mind that the time is already being updated on the status bar, or that background notifications use up more battery than the weather would.
OTOH, the date only changes once every 24 hours, so that's "okay".
The 9:41 AM on the iPhone (not the clock app) is because of the time when Steve Jobs actually announced the iPhone. The Clock app time might be when Steve Jobs demonstrated the actual clock app to the audience.
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 audiences watches. But we know we wont 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.
How come the icon for the calendar app can have the correct date but the clock and the weather apps have to one set time/temp?
"Room Temperature" tends to be 73º give or take a few.
ICONS come in different flavors. Teh calendar ICON is active and shows the corrent date. The Temp and Clock ICONS are just pictures.
Analog clocks are usually displayed set at 10:10 so that the hands are spread out. It's more aesthetically pleasing that way.
Apple probably wanted to be a bit different, so they went with 10:15.