20 Mind-Blowing iPhone Facts You Probably Didn’t Know
12. All Apple Ads Have A Time Of 9.40am
Much like the revelation that people selling clocks usually have the time at 10.10am or 22.10pm in order that it looks like a smiley face and cons consumerist sheep (clear that's who clock-sellers think they're attracting), it turns out Apple do the same thing, but for a far more boring reason. All clocks featured on Apple videos - whether on phones or computers - are set to 9.40am local time, because Apple know that when they release a product, they know that the big reveal comes around 40 minutes into the presentation. So it looks live at the time, the clever clogs. To slightly complicate matters, the iPad ads all show a time of 9:41.
11. Siri Will Set You A Nap Alarm
While it's far more hilarious to try and get Siri to swear, and start a romantic relationship with you - a la Her - the "artificial intelligence" personality actually does have one extremely useful function. If you're lying down, letting the pleasant fog of daytime sleepiness wash over you, you can ask Siri to wake you up after a certain time period, or at a specific time (presumably when your boss is due back in the office), and hey presto, an alarm is set without you having to go through the annoyance of pressing some buttons and sliding things about.
10. The Original Apple Maps Icon Suggested Suicide
Following on from the revelation that Bono was being secretly used to subliminally sell the idea of his music to you (if you're a conspiracy theorist anyway), there was also a subliminal message associated with the Apple Maps icon that is far more sinister (again, if you're a conspiracy theorist). The first icon for Apple Maps, which came in with iOS 6 featured Apple's Cupertino headquarters and helpfully suggested a route that would require a Fast & Furious style jump off an overpass. Surely that's something of an oversight for the most visible part of the Maps app? Thankfully, Apple have now changed this, but how many people blindly used that map as an indication of the real way to get there, compelled to believe it was somehow an Easter Egg? Probably not very many, frankly, but that's hardly the point.
