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Comment by cageyjames | Hacker News Reader

or, "How I failed to see the thousands of blog posts and tweets telling me this was going to happen".

In his defense; While I don't have an iPhone, I'm an avid reader of all things technology and check HN multiple times daily. I also failed to see these so called "thousands of blog posts and tweets". Again, not familiar with the iPhone, but can't Apple send out notifications of some sort?

A good way to find the notification bug in iOS4! ;)

Yeah, it is obviously the owners fault for not checking blog posts and tweets about the faulty product.

If I used and iPhone to wake up, I'd check every night before I went to bed to be sure the alarm worked. It isn't like this is the first time this has happened.

I keep jumper cables in my car because the electrical system drains the battery (and I'm too cheap to get a new car). I do so because I know it will need it eventually. How many times will the alarm clock "bug" have to bite before people start taking precautions.

I don't buy for a second that you have a daily recurring alarm which you test every day.

Besides, a more accurate analogy would be if every night, you jumpstarted your car to make sure the cables work.

excellent point! I was thinking of what you mentioned this morning.

How I was not able to see this issue before in the social networks?

I think part of it was my fault for not checking twitter during the Holidays and unless you search for "Is my IPhone going to fail in 2011" I don't think you were able to know about this issue. Also most blog posts/twitter content has been reported today but not a week or so ago.

But following your point, do you think now we have to become dependent on Twitter and Blog posts to know if our software/hardware is going to function properly the next day? Wouldn't that be counter productive?

I wouldn't be dependent on an iPhone to wake up in the morning.

To be fair, I only saw articles about this issue last night at 1am or so because I happened to compulsively read Hacker News and Reddit before bed. Seems perfectly understandable to miss the article for someone who has better things to do than browse the internet between a New Years party, family and the early business meeting.

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