Alarmgate!

[JimmiG]

http://www.9to5mac.com/45310/new-years-2011-breaks-non-recurring-iphone-alarm-clocks

According to multiple users expressing their frustration through Twitter, come New Years 2011 (where ever you are) your iPhone alarm clock won’t function correctly. You may recall a similar bug in iOS when daylight savings time switched on but this is exactly the opposite. This New Year’s 2011 iPhone alarm clock bug shows its face to users without recurring alarms.

Almost makes me want to switch to an iPhone so I can oversleep and blame the phone

Surprised that these little errors keep creeping through beta testing. Can't be that hard to program a proper alarm..

 

[sivart]

That's funny...so you set a 1 time alarm and it does nothing...awesome!

 

[basslover1]

That would suck for someone like me, who has to wake up for work at a different time each day.

 

[2Xtreme21]

Fantastic. Hope it works Tuesday!

 

[Spicedaddy]

Supposed to work on January 3rd... At least January 1st and 2nd were weekend days.

But this is a joke, they should rewrite their clock from scratch before another bug shows up.

 

[kaerflog]

This actually happenned to me and I was late for work.
Set my alarm for 7am and overslept till 8:30.
I thought I slept through it.
I looked at the IP4 later and it still showed the alarm on.
I thought that was kinda weird until I read about this bug.

 

[JimmiG]

That would suck for someone like me, who has to wake up for work at a different time each day.

I always use a simple digital alarm clock in addition to the phone's alarm. That way I'll wake up even if one of them glitches out.

 

[DivideBYZero]

This is nothing compared to the epic SMS bug in all Android devices.

 

[Bateluer]

This is nothing compared to the epic SMS bug in all Android devices.

Which doesn't exist for everyone, and is easily resolved by using Handcent, Chomp, or another messenging program. And you should be doing that anyway, stock is fine, no frills, but Handcent is much better.

Apple's bug effects every iPhone with that version of iOS. And it won't get fixed either, because its a user perception problem. Apple has determined that you don't need to get up on that particular date.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

I had to get up January 1st to fly home. My gf has a 3rd gen iTouch that she set for 5:30AM. I got up at 5:00 AM anyways and was looking at her iTouch at 5:30 but the alarm never went off. We thought it was odd. Didn't know it was something that was widespread till yesterday.

 

[basslover1]

This is nothing compared to the epic SMS bug in all Android devices.

It's only for stock android, and doesn't include the 3rd party apps available from the market, or the app that OEMs use instead. My Incredible hasn't had a single issue, but it's an HTC application, not Google.

 

[Anubis]

am i the only one that thinks calling something *gate is fucking retarded

 

[Bateluer]

am i the only one that thinks calling something *gate is fucking retarded

Only if you don't own one of the affected devices.

Thank Nixon, the DNC, the Watergate hotel, Woodward, and Deep Throat.

 

[hanoverphist]

am i the only one that thinks calling something *gate is fucking retarded

*gate was one of my fave arcade games. i played many quarters on that sucker...

 

[s44]

So no self-repair happened yesterday... This is hilarious.

 

[zsdersw]

Perhaps the people who write mobile operating systems should take a little time to ensure basic functions like clocks/alarms and SMS work perfectly and are bug-free before adding new features or tweaking peripheral ones.

 

[gsaldivar]

The fake Steve Jobs Twitter account is comedy gold...

http://twitter.com/ceostevejobs