Wake-up call for Apple as iPhone fails to sound alarm

BLEARY-EYED New Year’s revellers were treated to an awakening of the wrong kind when iPhone alarms the world over failed to wake them on the first day of 2011.

And bloggers, Facebook users and Twitter users across Europe and Asia were up in arms about missing flights and arriving late to work, as the alarm built into Apple’s iPhone failed to go off yesterday for a third straight day for some users.

“My iPhone alarm didn’t work again. Time to dig out [the] old school alarm clock,” user sueannlove from Singapore tweeted.