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iPhone Clock Bug Prevents Alarm Triggers after New Year's

rlmccormick said:
It's difficult to understand how a company as large as Apple, with all their test resources, can release software with such a non-subtle defect. It's even more difficult to understand why they have not patched this by now.
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Hey, cut Apple some slack. No one has ever wrote a digital alarm routine before... this is new programming territory. What with the end of the world less then a couple years away, time has become harder to pin down and make accurate to less then an hour or so.

:rolleyes:
 
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slapppy said:
Oh and the media finally has something to generate hits for them. Funny how they are not even covering this "Major Bug from Android" which is even more embarrassing and can result in serious problems than missing your alarm.

"SMS are intermittently sent to wrong and seemingly random contact."
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Perhaps because that texting bug is so rare that most users have never seen it happen, and even if it did, I'd certainly rank missing an airplane well above.

On the other hand, the iOS alarm bug hit EVERYONE ON THE PLANET who had that type of alarm set.

The difference in _actual_ impact between the two bugs is enormous.
 
Now if this had only affected me. All of my alarms are continually scheduled alarms, and my alarm went off at 6am, and me a bit hung over. All of my alarms went off without a hitch.

TEG
 
Is everyone on MR an ambulance driver or ER doc required to work new year's day? Or are there just a lot of drama queens that like to make mountains out of molehills? Seriously folks. Who gives a s***?
 
doctor-don said:
And if it's that important that you have to get up to go to work, you should have a back-up alarm.
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I haven't been complaining about the iDevice alarm issue, but I'm nearly 68 years old and haven't needed a "back-up alarm" since I was a kid and relied on my mother had to drag me out of bed for school.

It's funny to look back on all the different kinds of alarms that have come and gone in that period of time. My Android cell phone wakes me currently. Before that it was battery-powered clocks, a digital watch, analog watch, clock radios, and even wind-up alarm clocks ticking loudly near my bed.

If you can't trust your alarm device, you need a different device that you can trust. Whoever wrote and approved the testing for the alarm program did a terrible sloppy job. I can't envision any excuse that would make sense.
 
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Weird how iPhone OS (oopps.......iOS.....still getting used to that name) is based on Darwin, the core of Mac OS X, but Darwin or OS X never has these issues?

I wonder if it is the hardware, like the iPhone Internal Clock or something........
 
Hey, I'd hate to rain on everyone's "let's knock Apple today" parade, but I was traveling this week, and when I do that, I use the iPhone clock app as my alarm. This morning, Jan 1, I needed to get up on time to catch a flight. The alarm went off as it always did when I use it. I always use a one-time alarm.

Oh well, as a programmer myself, the bug probably isn't as simple as you all make it to be.
 
MrSmith said:
Is everyone on MR an ambulance driver or ER doc required to work new year's day? Or are there just a lot of drama queens that like to make mountains out of molehills? Seriously folks.
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Well said.

Kariya said:
Sheesh, so much noise over an alarm bug...that will correct itself in 24-48 hrs depending on where you are. I envy your lives if, of all the things in the world, this 'major' issue is enough to send your blood boiling.
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This is a, as you said, not a major issue.

macsrcool1234 said:
Everybody who uses an IOS based alarm?
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I have used my iPod Touch 1G for about 3 years and I have never used the alarm function in Clock.app. If you need an alarm, get a device that is meant for it, like an ALARM CLOCK. Anyone remember those???? :rolleyes:
 
HLdan said:
Show me a tech CEO that stays in tune with his customers and replies to personal emails sent to him? Jobs seems to be the only one doing this and he shouldn't be. Don't tell me Steve Emballmer returns emails? :rolleyes:
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Last I checked, there is zero proof Jobs is actually the individual responding to these random emails. However, you are proof that it's indeed great marketing.

Ah, I love when the Apple Apologists come out in full force.
 
Corbin052198 said:
I have used my iPod Touch 1G for about 3 years and I have never used the alarm function in Clock.app. If you need an alarm, get a device that is meant for it, like an ALARM CLOCK. Anyone remember those???? :rolleyes:
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Believe it or not, the world doesn't revolve around you. Just because you don't doesn't mean many others don't.

Try again.
 
Corbin052198 said:
I have used my iPod Touch 1G for about 3 years and I have never used the alarm function in Clock.app. If you need an alarm, get a device that is meant for it, like an ALARM CLOCK. Anyone remember those???? :rolleyes:
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Are you dumb or something? Surely you can't be serious? It's like saying:

"I have used my iPhone for 3 years and I have never used any app other than the Phone.app. If you need to check email, web-browse, play games, see movies, etc., buy a device that is meant for it, like a COMPUTER. Anyone remember those???"

Now I realize that this is an extreme example, but the point remains. This is a smartphone, and smartphones can do a lot of things that normal phones can't do. One of which is keeping time and alarms. Oh wait normal 10 year old Nokia phones can do that perfectly, but the iphone can't.

Please, crawl back into your little apple world where you build shrines about Steve Jobs and masturbate to apple commercials all day. Thank you.
 
*LTD* said:
What?

Apple owns the mobile space with iOS devices. They provide the way forward for the entire industry.

The reason Apple provides a superior User Experience is due to control, and control of the App Store ensures that garbage stays out.

Perhaps the also-rans might want to take yet another page from the Apple playbook and exercise a little more control as well. That way, copycats like Google can improve their buggy, in-perpetual-beta software that seems to constantly put users at risk. Never mind the never-ending fragmentation that makes developing quality apps a frustrating process.
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Apple OWNED the mobile space. Android is now in the process of helping Apple pack its bag as it vacates its top position. I expect that by 2012 or 2013, that iOS will have the same boutique status it has on the desktop (e.g. 10% - 15% market share).

Sorry, iOS is a sinking ship. Just like a sinking ship, the people on the decks above don't see the water filling the spaces below. Pretty soon the water will come in and people will head for the lifeboats of Android, with its less Draconian model and alarms that actually work.
 
Apple products go best with a sense of humor. And the ability to overlook their pricing, they can't help themselves.
 
Full of Win said:
Apple OWNED the mobile space. Android is now in the process of helping Apple pack its bag as it vacates its top position. I expect that by 2012 or 2013, that iOS will have the same boutique status it has on the desktop (e.g. 10% - 15% market share).

Sorry, iOS is a sinking ship. Just like a sinking ship, the people on the decks above don't see the water filling the spaces below. Pretty soon the water will come in and people will head for the lifeboats of Android, with its less Draconian model and alarms that actually work.
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Problem with your reasoning is while you see a lot of people coming from traditional phones to Android, you don't see a lot of customers switching from iphones.
 
Corbin052198 said:
I have used my iPod Touch 1G for about 3 years and I have never used the alarm function in Clock.app. If you need an alarm, get a device that is meant for it, like an ALARM CLOCK. Anyone remember those???? :rolleyes:
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Not really that good of an argument honestly. I have used multiple phones as my primary alarm clock over the years and not once have had an issue with it.

Now I normally have multiple alarm clocks I use but the phone generally has been primary.
Now for the past year or so my only alarm clock I use has been my blackberry.
Either way over all that time with multiple phones I have never had a single issue alarm clock messing up. Yet now Apple has pulled it off 2 times in a row for people cell phones. Not an excuse. It is cheap and sloppy coding.
 
Corbin052198 said:
Well said.



This is a, as you said, not a major issue.



I have used my iPod Touch 1G for about 3 years and I have never used the alarm function in Clock.app. If you need an alarm, get a device that is meant for it, like an ALARM CLOCK. Anyone remember those???? :rolleyes:
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My 8 year old daughter is my alarm clock :) She wakes up and wakes me up. Good girl.
 
Full of Win said:
Apple OWNED the mobile space. Android is now in the process of helping Apple pack its bag as it vacates its top position. I expect that by 2012 or 2013, that iOS will have the same boutique status it has on the desktop (e.g. 10% - 15% market share).

Sorry, iOS is a sinking ship. Just like a sinking ship, the people on the decks above don't see the water filling the spaces below. Pretty soon the water will come in and people will head for the lifeboats of Android, with its less Draconian model and alarms that actually work.
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Android is a fragmented nightmare of an os. It's already sunk, I have never used such a steaming pile of heap until I tried android. WP7 will be the final nail in androids coffin. :p
 
BenRoethig said:
Problem with your reasoning is while you see a lot of people coming from traditional phones to Android, you don't see a lot of customers switching from iphones.
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That is part of my point about it becoming a brewing issue. The iPhone has been out for 3.5 years, and many who purchased on did so in the last 2 years - which means that their contracts will be expiring soon and they will be looking to upgrade. I know of two people that have an iPhone 3G and are looking at Android phones at this moment. I will cede that this a limited sample, of course, but don't you think many who purchased an iPhone may look elsewhere when its time to upgrade?


Said another way, its like the time before a Tsunami - calm on the beach but a wave is coming at a hypervelocity, soon to overwhelm the beach. Well, there is a wave of users getting closer to the beach, and I feel many will look outside of iOS when their time is up.
 
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