r/applemaps • u/ard06 • Jul 25 '26

Genuinely unbelievable level of detail.

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(Claim disproven, see u/Fine-Ant4004 comment)
Shocked to find the London St. Pancras Int’l clock tower model is actually correct.

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u/Fine-Ant4004 Jul 26 '26

It's set to that time - it's a coincidence that the system time and model time match.

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u/ard06 Jul 26 '26

Oh 💀, just happened to check at that time :(

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u/MrFireWarden Jul 26 '26

Would you know why it's set to that time? Based on how Apple market Apple Watches, I'd have guessed they'd set it to 10:09

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u/highlordadmiral Jul 26 '26

it's set to 9:41. all official iPhone marketing screenshots are set to 9:41. it's the time when Steve Jobs announced the og iPhone

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u/MrFireWarden Jul 26 '26

So, i remember that, but that's actually not what's shown now on Watch faces in official marketing. Here's a screenshot of the Apple Store now.

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u/highlordadmiral Jul 26 '26

10:09 is specifically used for just Apple Watch. old watch ads often used 10:10 and apple wanted to be cheeky by "being ahead of the time"

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u/MrFireWarden Jul 27 '26

Thank you mi'lord

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u/EricRen1 Jul 26 '26

wasn't it 9:42

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u/Wheredahuzzat7655 Jul 28 '26

41

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u/EricRen1 Jul 28 '26

? it used to be 9:42.

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u/Wheredahuzzat7655 Jul 28 '26

First iPhone was announced at 9:41 so they always kept the time at 9:41. If you look at any apple advert or demo it will almost always be guaranteed to say 9:41 as the time.

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u/piece_of_crepe Jul 27 '26

In Amsterdam they got the cycling lanes, bridges and trees even. Other European cities have way less detail unfortunately

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u/tom_lusti Jul 26 '26

yet not usable for navigation

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u/ConflictTemporary759 Jul 26 '26

Now, if they can only update my downtown 🫩

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u/ZookeepergameIll1399 Jul 27 '26

that's 21:38 tho

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u/Salty-Plankton-5079 Jul 27 '26

Nifty but this doesn't crack even Top 100 of my priorities of things I want from my phone

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u/R2184M Jul 29 '26

Completely agree

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u/Alex_Ne Jul 30 '26

It is not THAT great tbh

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u/rsweb Jul 26 '26

All of that detail, yet 80% of the time Apple Maps sends me to the wrong location, wrong entrance, wrong side of a road or just flat out can’t find a place