Alarm glitch caused me to miss flight from Paris to US

In engineering, we have this term called "single point of failure". It refers to the prevention of having something critical be dependent on another critical event occuring, without some sort of failsafe mechanism. In common terms, it means ALWAYS have a backup plan. I would think that if $1000 was on the line, you would have had a second unrelated alarm set, which is what I always do.
Lesson learned, friend.

I agree with mark I would set a second alarm and if your in a hotel set a wakeup call ....

I agree with Mark as well. Glitches happen and can't always be foreseen.

Some of your expenses seem kind of high. I've stayed in some really posh hotel rooms without paying $300. And you can't eat for way less than $100 a day?

It's been all over the news since Saturday. I'm sorry that you had to learn an expensive lesson about always have a backup just in case.

mark75090 wrote:
In engineering, we have this term called "single point of failure". It refers to the prevention of having something critical be dependent on another critical event occuring, without some sort of failsafe mechanism. In common terms, it means ALWAYS have a backup plan. I would think that if $1000 was on the line, you would have had a second unrelated alarm set, which is what I always do.
Lesson learned, friend.

+1

There was a long period of time for me when I was in hotels every week as much or more than I was at home. Flying wasn't always involved with my regular travels, but when it was and I had an early flight that I couldn't miss, I always had a least one backup wake-up alarm but usually 3 especially at a hotel. Some of this was before handheld cell phones so I had a portable/small battery operated travel alarm, I set the alarm clock in the hotel room, and I had a wake-up call. I've never missed a flight based on missing a wake-up alarm, but I never depended on one - always a backup having two at least.

what the **** guys....

... this problem happened in Australia and Norway before. Apple knew about this problem and did nothing to fix it. A smartphone for 650€ is not able to ring!? There are severel free alarm clocks in the app store and all of them were running without any problem 🙂 just the apple product f * it up.

seriously... to support apple in this fact is a kind of stockholm-syndrom.

I hope they are able to build an working Clock/Alarm App.

Norway and Australia had January 1st and 2nd occur prior to the rest of the world?

deggie wrote:
Norway and Australia had January 1st and 2nd occur prior to the rest of the world?

Yes; According to the timezones; A country can be on Jan 2nd 2011 whilst Hawaii is still on Dec 31st 2010.

Thank your respective gods people that not everyone lives in the USA.

SO "us" only had one alarm set?

Im sorry but i too had a flight early on Jan 1st, and I survived - it's called a back up alarm. But yes i agree it's utterly lame of apple not to be able to program a simple alarm app properly especially after the time change issues we had a few months back.

Imagine the phone had crashed in the night. It happens. Or it had slipped into silent mode? Or even you had just slept too deeply. you paid the price for relying on one phone - iPhone or other. Apple made a dumb mistake, but so did you.

Sorry you'll have to cut back on your lavish 100 dollar a day eating habits!

I don't see anyone "supporting Apple" here. Apple need to sort this out. But people are just pointing out the obvious - don't rely on one alarm if you have to be up early for something really important.

I realize that, I realize not everyone lives in the US. But are you telling me that the 1st and 2nd occurred at different periods in Norway than they did in Sweden and Denmark?

i thought i read the "norway and australian" thing on a newspage but i can't find it again...

of course it's not the best idea to rely on just 1 alarm if you have to get a flight. but it sounds like you underplay the failure 😉 they never fixed the alarm clock... very bad performce from apple.

Interesting article on the BBC news website today about alarms clocks and how many people now rely on a mobile phone to wake them up.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12122529

If you read through here you will see I have not underplayed anything, but the daylight savings bug is probably unrelated to the one that just occurred and the former was fixed.

what the **** guys....

seriously... to support apple in this fact is a kind of stockholm-syndrom.

What you and many others don't seem to realize is that most here (me included) are not supporting Apple at all(they screwed up), we're just not supporting people blaming their problems on an alarm clock. The 'dog ate my homework' is not a valid excuse, ever. Act like a mature adult and take some responsibility for your actions, or lack of in this case.