Anyone Else Get F***ed Over by the iPhone Alrm Glitch...?

Anyone Else Get F***ed OVER by the iPhone Alarm Glitch?

Why yes i did how strange you asked. I was showing my new iPhone to a hot looking female friend and the alarm accidently went off, she must have hit a button or something. Well the alarm must have triggered a hypnotic implant in her or something because she got this look in her eyes and before I know it we were both naked and she was f***ing me over good.

Like I said though, weird you would asked.

rhythm runner wrote:

You generation Y'ers really frighten me with your naive dependence on the things we X'ers invented. You guys are bitching and moaning about your iPhone alarms not working. I suggest a common sense solution, and you call me a retard? Either you're trolling or you need to look in the mirror. I'm not the retard oversleeping appointments. Because I'm not naive enough to trust Apple with my waking. You're runners supposedly - so set your f***:ng watches to beep or figure out a better solution. Buy a rooster. Or program the iPhone yourself, if you're so smart.

I understand your defensiveness as he should not have called you "a retard". I don't understand the points you're making in this post, however. Are you saying we are any less dependent on Nike to ensure our Nike watch-alarm works than we are on Apple to ensure their phone-alarm works? ... or on the rooster to ensure it will crow, for that matter? Is it just because the iPhone is a more sophisticated piece of technology that it is inherently less trustworthy?

I feel like Billy Bob Thornton in Bad Santa. "Are you messing with me, kid?!?" Please take a millisecond to read my previous posts. I've been recommending the utilization of multiple devices and/or technologies to increase the liklihood of being awoken. The more alarms you set, the less dependent you are on any one of them to wake you. Do you have to set 3 alarms every night? Not necessarily. It's your choice, and it depends on how important it is that you wake up on time.

set 0 alarms, and rely on your biorhythms to wake you: 0%-50% chance of waking up on time

set 1 alarm, a phone that is plugged in: 99% chance of being awoken on time

set 2 alarms, a phone that is plugged in plus a dinosaur-age alarm clock with a backup battery: 99.990% chance of being awoken time

set 3 alarms, a phone that is plugged in plus a dinosaur-age alarm clock with a backup battery, plus an Ironman Triathlon watch: 99.9999% chance of being awoken on time

etc.

etc.

It's your choice

It's a simple reliability problem. Let's assume you have the iPhone4. The probability your iPhone has an alarm glitch is 30% from quoted figures for the new iPhone, so it can be trusted to wake you up 70% of the time. I don't like those odds. So you add in your watch alarm which has a 90% probability of waking you up on time (quiet alarm, gets damaged, etc.) Because these devices are in parallel your percent chance of waking up becomes 1 - ((1-.7)*(1-.9)) or 97%. I like the odds but I enjoy running with my buddies and 3 out of every 100 times I won't be woken up to. You know what, I turn on a traditional plug in alarm. It also has a 90% chance of waking you up on time (power failure, malfunction, etc.) This brings your chance of being woken up on time to 1 - ((1-.7)(1-.9)(1-.9)) or 99.7%. So 3 times out of a thousand you won't meet your buddies. I like those odds, I'll take it. Throw in your chance of getting lucky and waking up naturally, I'll say 5%, and your chance of waking up on time goes up to 99.715%.

I'm a scientist motherf***ers.

What? Where are you getting this 30% figure?

Your post presumes that the iphone alarm works only 7 out of 10 times, that is preposterous.

I am a scientist too.

The concept that multiple devices allow for a greater likelihood of success is obvious, and I agree on that point. Your quote of "You generation Y'ers really frighten me with your naive dependence on the things we X'ers invented" is what confused me. It is naive to depend on something with a 99% success rate for something like meeting friends for a run? Also, by that logic, how would relying on a watch be any different, since it was invented by "we X'ers" as well? (I didn't know all of generation X had meetings to invent these things, must have been a hell of a venue.)

You also went on to suggest that generation Y'ers "program" the iPhone themselves, implying that unless you "invent it" yourself, you are naive for depending on it. Does that mean that 99.999% of people are naive when it comes to their alarms? Or does all generation X get a pass since they, collectively, invented the alarms?

PWN3D!!!!!

Moron with a PhD!!! wrote:

What? Where are you getting this 30% figure?

Your post presumes that the iphone alarm works only 7 out of 10 times, that is preposterous.

I am a scientist too.

Sir, did I meet you at the ISSAT International Conference Reliability and Quality in Design Conference last year? You remind me of a moron I met from Vanderbilt. But I digress.

The figure is from the latest quoted Apple figures where they list 1,462,876 possible alarm events with 1,026,939 events actually occuring for a success rate of 70.2%

Scientist, PHD wrote:

Sir, did I meet you at the ISSAT International Conference Reliability and Quality in Design Conference last year? You remind me of a moron I met from Vanderbilt. But I digress.

The figure is from the latest quoted Apple figures where they list 1,462,876 possible alarm events with 1,026,939 events actually occuring for a success rate of 70.2%

No, no, no... you are misinterpreting the data.

For the iPhones that were programmed with the glitch, 70.2% worked despite the glitch. That is becasue they used repeating alarms, which bypassed the New Year glitch.

We are talking about the two days prior to releasing the fix.

That is like taking THE alarm clock and saying, over the course of forever, alarm clocks have a 50% chance of working (based on one hotel where the hotel cleaning staff switched the AM/PM on all the alarms and only 50% of the people realized it).

I get that look from hot women all the time, with the same experience following. But my iPhone has nothing to do with it.How funny that you just unwittingly admitted the only way you got this woman in bed was for your iPhone alarm to hypnotize her...Brilliant...

Salty Dogs Run Fast wrote:

Why yes i did how strange you asked. I was showing my new iPhone to a hot looking female friend and the alarm accidently went off, she must have hit a button or something. Well the alarm must have triggered a hypnotic implant in her or something because she got this look in her eyes and before I know it we were both naked and she was f***ing me over good.

Like I said though, weird you would asked.

No, because we generation Xers invented the iPhone and its software, plus a load of other things like it, we know better than to trust it to wake us. We know that everything is fallible. The generation Yers don't yet have the experience to know better. But there's hope for you yet.

rhythm runner wrote:

No, because we generation Xers invented the iPhone and its software, plus a load of other things like it, we know better than to trust it to wake us. We know that everything is fallible. The generation Yers don't yet have the experience to know better. But there's hope for you yet.

I hope you don't drive a car, since the Greatest Generation invented that. You, undoubtedly, wouldn't know better than to trust that it wouldn't break down or possibly lose control at high speeds due to mechanical issues and not driver error. Even though it has a greater than 99% reliability of not losing control at high speeds due to mechanical issues, it clearly is not safe. The Greatest Generation knows better than to trust it to safely drive them places. They know that everything is fallible. I also hope that you don't fly in planes, use electricity, use pens, or anything else that was invented by generations before yours. Clearly it is impossible to use to knowledgeably use anything that wasn't invented by your own generation.

rhythm runner wrote:

No, because we generation Xers invented the iPhone and its software, plus a load of other things like it, we know better than to trust it to wake us. We know that everything is fallible. The generation Yers don't yet have the experience to know better. But there's hope for you yet.

You, sir, are a total moron. Even more so than I.

Set my alarm for 6am, since we planned to ski Northstar in Tahoe, where the parking lot fills at 9am. Woke up at 7:30am, so we had to go to Sierra-at-Tahoe instead.

Had a great time anyways, but will use a backup alarm next time.

HotCocoa wrote:

(snip) but will use a backup alarm next time.

See. This guy gets it.

To the poster writing about the greatest generation inventing cars: first of all, I actually don't own a car. It's true. I run to work, and I run home from work. My legs are actually more reliable than a car. But I digress. None of your points refute my point which is that the generation Y kids on this thread are naive to put 100% of their faith in an iPhone when they could easily set a backup alarm.

This is like arguing against someone who parachuted without a backup parachute, their primary chute failed, they got paralyzed, and now they're complaining about the primary chute failing. All I'm saying is, you should use a backup chute. You're naive otherwise. Suckers.

rhythm runner wrote:

To the poster writing about the greatest generation inventing cars: first of all, I actually don't own a car. It's true. I run to work, and I run home from work. My legs are actually more reliable than a car. But I digress. None of your points refute my point which is that the generation Y kids on this thread are naive to put 100% of their faith in an iPhone when they could easily set a backup alarm.

This is like arguing against someone who parachuted without a backup parachute, their primary chute failed, they got paralyzed, and now they're complaining about the primary chute failing. All I'm saying is, you should use a backup chute. You're naive otherwise. Suckers.

Do you use two alarms nightly? If yes, you are one of the most paranoid people I've heard of. If not, do you think the alarm you use is more reliable than a cell phone? You're from generation Y and you have this big of a fear of technology? I'm done feeding the troll (at least I hope you're trolling).

I set two alarms nightly, not because I don't trust my primary alarm (my phone), but because a freight train going through my bedroom would probably not wake me. I can sleep through anything. So I need to set several alarms with the hope that maybe one of them will wake me.

I'm the same way.

As far as alarm clock versus cell phone, i would also trust the alarm clock more. Especially an Iphone alarm. I'm not a tech geek but don't those things have all kinds of issues with reception, etc? They just seem unreliable in general.

Also it seems natural that an alarm involving some kind of "software" would be more prone to error than a simple device like an alarm clock.

Normally I would be defending the iPhone but since 4pm yesterday, all I am getting is the "Connection to the server failed" message when i try to access my email, so I am pissed at the iPhone right now.

No one in IT can figure it out.

F***ing Apple, they piss me off and break all time but their products are so great.

I hate blackberries, I don't see how people use them.