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iPhone New Years alarm bug: just another faux iPhone controversy?

iPhone New Years alarm bug: just another faux iPhone controversy?

Did you fall for the New Years Day iPhone alarm clock hoax? I did, sad to admit. I’m alone in a hotel in the middle of nowhere right now (don’t ask), and I need to hit the road again today. So when I heard last night that a bug had been discovered in the iPhone’s “Clock” app in which any alarms set for New Years Day simply didn’t bother to go off, I was concerned enough to take the time to actually figure out how to set the old twentieth century style clock radio in the hotel room just in case.

But as it turns out, and was the case for millions of other iPhone users, there was no issue. iPhone alarms went off as they were supposed to. Life went on. So where does this continual nonsense about the iPhone come from?

I don’t want to jump the gun here, as it’s entirely possible that some segment of iPhone users, somewhere, somehow, was indeed affected by this supposed alarm bug. But as it stands, I can’t find them. All I can find is a bunch of people who heard about the supposed iPhone alarm bug last night, opted for a different method of waking up today instead, have no idea that their iPhone would have dutifully woken them like usual if they had set it, and therefore falsely believe that this “iPhone New Years alarm bug” is real despite having seen no evidence of it themselves. Remind you of anything? Like, say, the last fifteen imaginary Apple-related controversies?

This one has “iPhone 4 antenna issue” written all over it. It doesn’t exist, never existed, was concocted by geek tech pundits with a vindictive agenda, and yet millions of people, in fact millions of iPhone 4 uses, believe it’s real. They all just think they’ve been lucky enough not to be affected by it. Damage done.

Hoaxes are a very real part of human nature, for whatever reason. But there’s been a massive spike the number of iPhone related hoaxes ever since the day the police busted down the door of a certain geek tech journalist who’d stolen an Apple prototype, and other geek tech journalists apparently felt they had to avenge the matter (and for the record, nearly all tech journalists are geek tech journalists). This latest iPhone hoax, if it is indeed another hoax and not just a random glitch which affected one user who then made the honest mistake of going overboard with assumptions, is a sad sign that the geeks haven’t yet gotten their thirst for iPhone blood out of their systems. Perhaps that can be their New Years resolution.

As evidence of how effective these hoaxes are, there are bound to be at least some folks who reply in the comments section with “But the iPhone 4 antenna issue was real! Consumer Reports proved it was! Apple admitted it was!” despite the fact that none of those things are true. Just as there are iPhone users who now believe the New Years alarm bug was real despite never having seen a shred of evidence.

[Thanks: http://www.beatweek.com]

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