Why is Apple's $300 billion market value uncertain about a small alarm?

On the morning of January 1, 2011, a hotel in Xiamen, Zhang Mo could not hear the sound of the iPhone alarm. The night before, he set the alarm at 9 o'clock, but he stayed up until 10 o'clock to wake up. That day, he couldn't catch the hotel's breakfast time.

Afterwards, he discovered from the Internet that it wasn’t that he didn’t hear the alarm, but that the iPhone’s alarm didn’t ring for two days. The user named “Carytsang” complained on Weibo: “Before the first day of school, I was almost late. I thought I was tweaking the voice of the iPhone. Today, Bill told me to know that the original iPhone was from January 1, 2011. No. The alarm will not ring when the number starts."

A micro-blog user whose user name is “I am a Mage Bacteria” said: “It was too tragic and the 'fruit powder' was late for a group...”

In response, Apple Inc. said in an interview with the "First Financial Daily" yesterday that the iPhone alarm clock problem has been resolved since January 3. However, this company did not give more comments.

An Apple spokesman acknowledged that the iPhone had an alarm malfunction. Foreign media quoted the spokesman as saying: "Users can solve this problem by setting a repetitive alarm. All alarms can be normal from January 3. jobs."

Kyle Wiens, head of Apple's product repair website iFixit, said in an interview with a foreign media company: “The iPhone's alarm problem may be due to a vulnerability in the date code of the IOS system software. We found that the date code is not too strong. Stable.” IOS is short for iPhone OS or OS X iPhone and is an operating system developed by Apple for the iPhone.

However, the "fruit powder" is not overwhelmed. Weibo users "ZhuZi" complained on the Internet: "Apple's problem has become a global problem. A product that has reached this point is already very good, but it uses its customers. It is very sad and even dangerous..."

The iPhone was announced by Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs at Macworld, which was held on January 9, 2007. It was launched in the United States on June 29, 2007 and soon became popular around the world. In the three months from July to September of last year, Apple sold a total of 14.1 million iPhones, an increase of 91% year-on-year.

This product is avant-garde and expensive, but it is difficult to imagine that a company with a market value of up to 300 billion U.S. dollars could not imagine a small alarm clock. After Apple announced that the alarm clock had been resolved on January 3, some users’ mobile phone alarms were still in a state of failure on that day.

This is not the first time the iPhone has an alarm. Just a few months ago, users in Europe, the United States, and Australia accidentally slept for an hour because their cell phone did not confirm the end of summer time. The mobile phone that had a problem at that time set a repetitive alarm, and those phones that had a one-time alarm were not affected.

Communication field expert Xiang Ligang, president of Feixiang.com, told the newspaper that different mobile phone users may encounter different problems. Some people have no alarm clock on mobile phones, and mobile phones with alarm clocks may not be more. A small problem with software, such as writing a program, lost a few letters, and then did not test it when testing. "Compared with Apple's previous antenna problem, the alarm problem is much smaller."