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iPhone Alarm Bug Leads To Mass European Sleep-in

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the yeah-it-was-my-phone dept.

nk497 writes "A flaw in the alarm clock in iPhone 4s gave Europeans a bit of a lie-in this morning. While the Apple handsets automatically adjusted to daylight savings time, a bug in the alarm system meant many were woken up an hour later than they should have been, after clocks rolled back over the weekend. Annoyingly, Australia was hit by a similar problem last month, but Apple failed to fix the problem or even warn users. American Apple fans, consider yourselves warned. The iOS4 bug can apparently be avoided by using one-off alarms, rather than pre-set regular wake-up calls."

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  1. Why the '!opensource' tag? by Sasayaki · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Was this story submitted by RMS? What's with the '!opensource' tag?

    Whoever wrote that has obviously never used any open source products, because if that person is under the flat-out delusion that all open source products such as Android and Ubuntu are mysteriously free of strange rarely-occurring or one-time bugs... wow. I want some of whatever she's smoking.

    It's snippy, egotistical little things that really piss me off about the open source movement. The benefits of open source isn't a bug free program- it's a program that anyone can change and distribute as they see fit, within the bounds of the licence. (technically, closed source fits the exact same description, except the bounds of the licence are usually extremely tight or completely restrictive).

    That kind of attitude only harms the open source movement by making us look (even more) like elitist snobs.

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  2. Re:iPhones aren't THAT popular over here ... by Americano · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In fact, I didn't see anyone oversleep

    Don't say that, you'll ruin the buzz these people are getting from an early morning apple bash. Now why would you want to go and do that? :(

  3. Re:Cue anti-iphone trolls & "open" android sta by blahbooboo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The nexus one is as unlocked as it gets - I got the latest 2 OS updates OTA not depending on my carrier, direct from google!

    Unfortunately, it failed to sell well and was essentially pulled from the market.

  4. Re:Is this story for real? by ElectricTurtle · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well I knew your mom, at least in the Biblical sense.

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