GETTING the rubber band powered Iphone 4 alarm clock to work is still proving to be a challenge too far for the software geniuses at Apple.
Yesterday we reported that Iphone 4 users were treated to the formerly hidden feature that their alarm clock did not go off after 1 January.
At the time, Jobs' Mob promised users that the alarm would start working again on January 3 and that it did not need an software upgrade. Unfortunately it turns out that the software 1/11/11 bug has not gone away at the request of the Apple press office, nor by faith of Apple fanbois alone.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Apple has been unable to get the most simple bit of technology in its Iphone 4 to work.
A similar problem hit the Iphone alarm when the clocks went back in November, again causing many users to be late for work or transport arrangements.
The Herald quotes Kyle Wiens, who runs the popular Apple repair site Ifixit, as saying that the alarm glitch is likely due to a bug in the date code of the IOS software that runs the Iphone. The date code is not very stable, he said.
Apple's last official statement was that it was aware of an issue related to non-repeating alarms set for January 1 or 2, but it should be okay by January 3. It did not release a software update.
Even a cheap Chinese alarm clock can manage to cope with a yearly date change without breaking, but apparently Apple is unable to tackle the crisis.
What amazes us is not only the fact that the Iphone 4 programming is so bad that it can't tell the time, but when Steve Jobs has four days to fix the problem his teams of geniuses remain bewildered. Either that or he fails to lose any sleep over the possibility that his fanbois could be fired for turning up to work late on the first day of the year.
An alarm clock is the sort of software exercise they give high school students to write. Jobs' Mob should have fixed it in about five minutes, not three days (and counting).
Meanwhile Apple fanbois have been telling us that it is only an alarm clock so we should get over it. Just like they told us it was only a few dropped calls during antennaegate.
"Apple's share price just went through the roof, you should be writing about that and not minor glitches, like this. Apple is popular and while it is popular and doing well no one can complain," one "Flame the writer" email said.
Maybe Steve Jobs is right after all. Apple doesn't have to be competent, it just has to be cool.
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