And said another way, if you get the Android phone you don't have to sacrifice your system to the bloated pig called "Itunes".
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iPhone Clock Bug Prevents Alarm Triggers after New Year's
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And said another way, if you get the Android phone you don't have to sacrifice your system to the bloated pig called "Itunes".
it's a bug -- it inconvienced some people -- software isn't perfect and while Apple's products are generally head/shoulders above everyone else's, they're not perfect people either.
If this really troubles you, get an Android phone and shut up already.
If this really troubles you, get an Android phone and shut up already.
Android is screwed already.
1. Google provides the OS
2. The phone manufacturer modifies it for their hardware
3. The provider puts their junk on it (Sprint TV, etc).
What happens when there's an OS update? You either throw your Android phone away because either #2 or #3 is not interested in updating it (or hope the previous packages work with the new Android OS releases) or you wait an eternity for all three of these groups to get around to building a package for you to load onto your device.
Really...how many phones are purchased brand new with 2.1 when 2.3.x is available?
^^this totaly agree never used a iPhone/iPod alarm if i do I always have my iHome as another option just to be double safe.
I like how everyone immediately starts jumping all over Apple blaming them for bad quality assurance and to test the devices more.....yet this is a ONE time issue that affects a very brief period (two whole days). Oh, HOW WILL WE LIVE WITHOUT OUR ALARMS FOR TWO WHOLE DAYS!
Get a life people. Find something else to troll the forums and complain about.
Get a life people. Find something else to troll the forums and complain about.
Again, everyone has to remember that we don't always have the option of usng back up alarms. I travelled to my old college town for new years and stayed up pretty late with some of my army buddies and I had to drive back an hour in the morning to see my grandparents and an uncle from Texas who was visiting. I had to rely on my iPhone alarm as I was staying at a friends house and it failed me. Thankfully, the booze in my bladder woke me up to go piss about an 10 minutes before it was supposed to go off.
So it was a big inconvenience to many people this morning I'm sure, and maybe for some tomorrow who don't yet know about the problem.
So it was a big inconvenience to many people this morning I'm sure, and maybe for some tomorrow who don't yet know about the problem.
Keep walking. The original smart phone, the iphone, will be be a big hit when it arrives on other carries in 2012 or 2013. The android is a stop gap measure for people who do not want to switch to ATT.
It may be a "one time" issue, but there have been more "one time issue" alarm bugs in the past.
i was late for work because of this today!
i got written up!
i'm gonna show this to my boss, maybe she will unwrite me up?
i got written up!
i'm gonna show this to my boss, maybe she will unwrite me up?
How about your lame post. If you are going to post, at least make it something post-worthy.
This was Apple's miss. I haven't read through all the posts, but why is it complaining to call out Apple for their product not performing as advertised? It's a clock with an alarm and the alarm did not work.
Wow people are making up all kinds of lies now. Well it's not like the earlier posts were any more truthful than the latest ones. Also I find it hilarious that people are blaming Apple because they got drunk the night before and couldn't wake up on time on their own the next morning. 
Wow people are making up all kinds of lies now. Well it's not like the earlier posts were any more truthful than the latest ones. Also I find it hilarious that people are blaming Apple because they got drunk the night before and couldn't wake up on time on their own the next morning.
you're calling longtime MR community members liars and drunks?
shame, thats pretty low.
Gotta love these made up stories. I'm willing to bet that more than 50% of the posts that said they were late for whatever reason due to this one bug are nothing but blatant lies just so they something to bitch about, even on the new year. If their time was so important to them they would have a backup plan and not rely on a portable device with limited battery life to keep them on track. I call it BS.
Believe it or not but I just arrived 10minutes before the Gate closed at my plane. I was lucky I woke up by myself wondering why i didn't hear the 2 alarms I set.
@Apple: Could you kindly check if the end of Daylight Saving Time works ? Thanks. Also 20.11.2011 seems dangerous
Really HLDan
Why are you so convinced people are "making up lies"??
Just because you are not affected/ dont rely on your iphone alarm, try to understand that the millions of other iPhone owners in the world might do.
Millions of other people with different patterns and lives to yours, meaning millions of possible combinations of things that could have happened, related to an alarm clock.
For example, and I promise I am not lying!: I was on a business trip in Portugal earlier this year, and there was no alarm clock provided in this otherwise great hotel.
We had conferences that started at varying times of the morning over the few days that we were out there. Oversleeping would obviously be terrible.
We were also involved in drinking at the end of these days working making the chances of oversleeping or some such even greater.
Without my smartphone I would have been screwed. Different time zone (+1hr), having to get up at different times, in a new country, in a new bed, and only for 4 days. So not much time to build up any sort of pattern.
With it being new years/holidays I can DEFINITELY envisage many people travelling (and having to get up in foreign hotels/houses to catch flights etc to return back for work mon-tues), having no backups and relying on their phones which USUALLY work.
Anyways many people DO work on New Years Day, and may be more needing an alarm than ever due to having celebrated last night!!
Wow people are making up all kinds of lies now. Well it's not like the earlier posts were any more truthful than the latest ones. Also I find it hilarious that people are blaming Apple because they got drunk the night before and couldn't wake up on time on their own the next morning.
Why are you so convinced people are "making up lies"??
Just because you are not affected/ dont rely on your iphone alarm, try to understand that the millions of other iPhone owners in the world might do.
Millions of other people with different patterns and lives to yours, meaning millions of possible combinations of things that could have happened, related to an alarm clock.
For example, and I promise I am not lying!: I was on a business trip in Portugal earlier this year, and there was no alarm clock provided in this otherwise great hotel.
We had conferences that started at varying times of the morning over the few days that we were out there. Oversleeping would obviously be terrible.
We were also involved in drinking at the end of these days working making the chances of oversleeping or some such even greater.
Without my smartphone I would have been screwed. Different time zone (+1hr), having to get up at different times, in a new country, in a new bed, and only for 4 days. So not much time to build up any sort of pattern.
With it being new years/holidays I can DEFINITELY envisage many people travelling (and having to get up in foreign hotels/houses to catch flights etc to return back for work mon-tues), having no backups and relying on their phones which USUALLY work.
Anyways many people DO work on New Years Day, and may be more needing an alarm than ever due to having celebrated last night!!
I think that is the point where we disagree. Two years ago, there was a paucity of hardware choices when it came to Android. IIRC, the G1 was about the only game in town. Now, in 2011, the hardware choices are as good or even better than the iPhone 4. As time goes on, there will be greater and greater incentives (cost, freedom from Apple Control, greater choice of carriers, diverse form factors, more advanced protocols like 4G, ect...) for users to switch platforms.
This trend will continue into 2011 and 2012, and thin out the number of Apple iPhone users that are ready to upgrade.
Stupid Apple...
If my girlfriend would not have woken up early in the morning by herself I would have missed my train in Paris... hard to understand that it's so difficult for Apple's development team to create a working alarm function!!
Just imagine how many people had problems now these days and what the effects could have been... missed planes, trains, too late at the office, fired at work, .......
If my girlfriend would not have woken up early in the morning by herself I would have missed my train in Paris... hard to understand that it's so difficult for Apple's development team to create a working alarm function!!
Just imagine how many people had problems now these days and what the effects could have been... missed planes, trains, too late at the office, fired at work, .......
Wow, this is just embarrassing.
First Aperture had all kinds of trouble with time zones and daylight savings time (still does, particularly when geotagging photos). Then not-US had problems with daylight savings. Now iPhone can't deal with the new year.
I hope they can pull it back together, but this is the sign of a company straining under growth.
First Aperture had all kinds of trouble with time zones and daylight savings time (still does, particularly when geotagging photos). Then not-US had problems with daylight savings. Now iPhone can't deal with the new year.
I hope they can pull it back together, but this is the sign of a company straining under growth.
Do your research. Its the second time this has happened. The DST issue was almost identical. If you are here to tell people they are stupid for complaining when their $900 phone has a huge flaw with what should be the most basic application, you're the one who needs to get a life.
In addition, how are people who are commending on their displeasure with Apple over a cock-up trolls verses you, who seems to be here specifically to tell people to get a life?
Idiot.
Can't speak to the rarity, because I haven't been following, it, but sending SMSs to the wrong contact is pretty huge. A misdirected text read out of context could cost you your job, or marriage.
I'd say the actual impact depends on the situation.
Missed my flight home
This bug caused me to miss my flight home. Rebooking has cost me 500 euros!
Does anyone know an email i can complain to, their website is spectacularly unhelpful... I have a dutch iphone 3gs.
What do you recon the chances of any compensation are.
This bug caused me to miss my flight home. Rebooking has cost me 500 euros!
Does anyone know an email i can complain to, their website is spectacularly unhelpful... I have a dutch iphone 3gs.
What do you recon the chances of any compensation are.