IPhone Users Left Sleeping by Apple's Latest Alarm Clock Function Failure

[bananas]

Source: Bloomberg

IPhone users were left sleeping this weekend as the device that helped make Apple Inc. the world’s second-most valuable publicly traded company had its third alarm clock failure, the latest in a series of glitches.

A fault may be preventing one-off alarms from working on Jan. 1 and 2, the Cupertino, California-based company said in a statement yesterday. Customers can set recurring alarms that will work on those dates, and all alarms will work properly from Jan. 3, Apple said.

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A glitch caused some iPhone alarm settings in Europe to go off an hour late on Nov. 1, failing to automatically adjust to the change as most countries in Europe switched to standard time from daylight savings, according to a report on the AppleInsider.com website.

Similar problems affected iPhone users in Australia and New Zealand in September, causing their alarms to go off an hour early in the southern hemisphere, according to the report.

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Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-02/iphone-users-left-sleeping-by-latest-alarm-clock-failure.html

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The "Y2K11" bug.

[Tesha]

1. Do you post similar threads when Nokia Symbian smartphones have similar failures?

Or are you the computer equivalent of the "I only post bad stories
about Toyotas" guy?

Tesha

(And yes, Nokia Symbian Smartphones have had their share of
"the alarm didn't go off" failures.)

[Thor_MN]

2. Were you as defensive of the Symbian failures?

Or are you a "defend Apple against all comers" fanatic?

[Tesha]

3. I felt no need to post Nokia-bashing, but a lot of people seem to like...

...to post Apple bashing (or Toyota bashing, or CFL bashing,
or whatever their pet-peeve is).

Tesha

[Thor_MN]

6. Hmmm, I intended to ask if you defend Apple, not if you bash other products.

Personally, I use whatever tool is appropriate for the purpose and don't feel the need to promote or defend anything other than my own work. I was just curious as to if your protest was rooted against product bashing or specifically Apple bashing. Basically, because as you touched on, complaining about a negative post about Apple by posting negatively about another product would be hypocritical.

[Renew Deal]

9. How is this post bashing?

I thought it was informative. Lots of people have these phones and may be affected.

[Name removed]

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[bananas]

12. Perhaps you have me confused with someone else.

I don't think I've ever posted anything bad about Toyotas.

[piratefish08]

4. alarm doesn't go off. makes news headline.

what a toy-obsessed country we are.

[Renew Deal]

10. There's a lot of these "toys" out there.

In fact, over 41 million of them. That's a lot of affected people.

[GeorgeGist]

5. Maybe expensive alarm clocks ...

are smarter than their buyers.

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. Some of us check our alarm settings every night

thereby avoiding this glitch.

[Dappleganger]

11. +1

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. You mean it marks itself the day before as "this alarm will not go off"?

That makes it a really bizarre software bug. You'd think they'd have fixed it rather than having it tell the users it's broken.

Anyway, the problems continue for some people, despite Apple's claims it would be fixed by Jan 3rd:

Apple woes continue as some sleep in Asia, Europe

* Some Apple users say alarm fails for third day

* Apple aimed to fix it for Jan 3, some users say it's fixed

HONG KONG/HELSINKI, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Some iPhone users in Asia and Europe complained of malfunctioning alarms on the first working day of 2011, even after Apple (AAPL.O) reassured users that its phones' built-in clocks will work from Monday.

Bloggers, Facebook and Twitter users complained they missed flights or were late to arrive at work, as the alarm built into Apple's iPhone failed to go off for a third straight day for some users.

"My iPhone alarm didn't work again," user sueannlove from Singapore tweeted on the social networking site. "Time to dig out (the) old school alarm clock."

Similar messages were sent by iPhone users in Britain, Netherlands and other European countries.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE7020AZ20110103