After Apple Says Otherwise, iPhone Alarm Still Remains Silent

By NICK BILTON
JANUARY 3, 2011

If you use your iPhone as an alarm clock, it might be time for a 
backup plan.

On Sunday I wrote an article about an iPhone programming bug that 
failed to activate the phone's built-in alarm, leaving a lot of 
customers upset, confused and late. In the article, I noted that 
Apple had acknowledged the problem existing but said it would 
automatically fix itself by Monday, Jan. 3.

Yet on Monday morning the problem did not seem to have gone away. A 
lot of angry iPhone owners wrote in to The New York Times complaining 
that they had missed flights, were late for work or had failed to 
drop their kids off for the first day of the 2011 school year - all 
because the iPhone alarm didn't work again.

Apple did not respond to a request for comment asking if there was an 
update to the programming error.

The problem seems to have affected so many customers that it became a 
trending topic on Twitter by late Monday morning. Most were irate 
that they had been assured that the phone would work properly for 
their first day back to work but instead remained silent all morning 
long.

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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/after-apple-says-otherwise-iphone-alarm-still-remains-silent/

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