iPhone Glitch

"Daddy, do you remember where you were during the great iPhone alarm calamity of 2010?" "No son, I was asleep."

This is a quotation from a twitter user that was featured in this article. Although it is supposed to funny, and that it probably will be me a 'calamity' that will go down in history, this iphone glitch is a big deal. The article discloses how the new iphone has a daylight savings glitch in the alarm program. The phone may recognize that it is an hour earlier, but the alarm does not, therefore making those who use their iphone as an alarm may be an hour late on Monday. This was discovered in europe and in the southern hemisphere where their daylight savings came before ours. The fact that this made CNN technology front page shows just how many people have the iphone and how many people would be interested in this news. Apple is known to have glitches in their first generation products, and have been criticized for it. Being an hour late on monday may not seem like that big of a deal, but the fact that our culture rely's so heavily on apple and on technology, it has been made into a deal. I personally use my phone as my alarm, which can be seen as a minor form of convergence. What happened to the bed side table with the digital clock in which you personally set back. We expect things to be done for us, so in some ways, this is a wake up call, no pun intended, to make sure we take some things back into our own hands.