Linked List: January 2, 2011

Sunday, 2 January 2011

Best Take on Alarmgate 

Farad Halime, reporting for The National on Apple’s New Year’s iOS alarm bug:

“If these small problems here and there continue happening, there will be a story and people will think it’s not worth it with the hassle and move to BlackBerry,” said Farouk Miah, an analyst who covers telecoms at NCB Capital in Saudi Arabia.

I guess they take alarm clock bugs pretty seriously in the Middle East.

Detroit in Ruins 

Powerful photographs of Detroit’s ruined former grandness, by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre. (Via Dave Winer.)

iOS Bug Prevents Alarms From Going Off for Two Days 

Methinks the alarm system in iOS is in need of a good code auditing.