IPhone users were left sleeping this weekend as the device that helped make Apple Inc the world’s second-most valuable publicly traded company had its third alarm clock failure, the latest in a series of glitches.
A fault may be preventing one-off alarms from working on Saturday and yesterday, the -California-based company said in a statement yesterday.
Customers are able to set recurring alarms that will work on those dates, and all alarms will work properly from today, Apple said.
Calls outside business hours by Bloomberg News to Apple’s offices in Tokyo and Hong Kong went unanswered.
A glitch caused some iPhone alarm settings in Europe to go off an hour late on Nov. 1, failing to automatically adjust to the change as most countries in Europe switched to standard time from daylight savings, according to a report on the AppleInsider.com Web site.
Similar problems affected iPhone users in Australia and New Zealand in September, causing their alarms to go off an hour early, -according to the report.
Concern the iPhone 4’s antenna design might be flawed may cost the company up to 20 percent of potential sales in the US, Piper Jaffray Co analyst Gene Muster wrote in a September report.
Apple chief executive officer Steve Jobs on July 16 offered users of the smartphone free rubber cases to alleviate reception problems and dropped calls that had caused Consumer Reports magazine to withhold its recommendation on the phone.
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