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The author can also buy one of the many alarm clock apps in the store in which will avoid this issue. It's a reoccurring issue as it happened when the time cha

The author can also buy one of the many alarm clock apps in the store in which will avoid this issue. It's a reoccurring issue as it happened when the time changed in the fall. Pardon shameless plug but we have an alarm app that wakes you up & speaks the status of your airline flight(delayed, canceled or on-time). We use flightcaster.com as our data resource. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sleep-fm/id388631053?mt=8# http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sleep-fm/id388631053?mt=8#

jamesaguilar 16y ago
Thanks for the plug. They can be useful. But: 1. Why use "promotional pics" rather than screenshots of the actual program? 2. Ugh, why use non-native controls? 3. The Facebook and Twitter icons look low-res, which would make for an ugly appearance on my iPhone 4. There is no chance I would buy this app without an accurate screenshot representation of it, and there's further no chance I would buy it if it really does look the way it does in the screenshots.
- paul9290 16y ago
  Thanks for the feedback. The ups & downs of doing a start-up(one that began in Jan. 2007)..... We intended to push out a better designed app by Nov., but things occurred prompting us to put our focus back into our start-up's(http://Sleep.FM http://Sleep.FM) original concept, The Social Alarm Clock(let friends choose your alarm sound). A concept we put on the back-burner as it got a lot of flak & thus we focused on creating an app that wakes you to weather reports, flight status & more. During app's long development process(8 months) we saw reaction to a competing Social Alarm Clock on Rocketboom's Tumblr (http://bit.ly/bSgGdl http://bit.ly/bSgGdl), as well a large company attempting to use our registered trademark(they probably never heard of us so we notified them & they ceased use immediately). Also, our server got hacked & a month later another Social Alarm Clock app was released, except this one's execution was a mirror of the mock up we had in our server. Thus the iphone redesign was pushed back and we finished & released site's original concept in December, though to deaf ears & losing many users. Overall Im at a crossroads with my start-up; not sure if i want to invest any further of my monies into it. Im skilled at front end coding & pay others to do design, back-end & mobile development. It seems now with this article and the iPhone's alarm clock short comings we should have focused on updating our app. It's all a crapshoot & Im somewhat exhausted...

jamesaguilar 16y ago

Thanks for the plug. They can be useful. But: 1. Why use "promotional pics" rather than screenshots of the actual program? 2. Ugh, why use non-native controls? 3. The Facebook and Twitter icons look low-res, which would make for an ugly appearance on my iPhone 4. There is no chance I would buy this app without an accurate screenshot representation of it, and there's further no chance I would buy it if it really does look the way it does in the screenshots.

paul9290 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback. The ups & downs of doing a start-up(one that began in Jan. 2007)..... We intended to push out a better designed app by Nov., but things occurred prompting us to put our focus back into our start-up's(http://Sleep.FM http://Sleep.FM) original concept, The Social Alarm Clock(let friends choose your alarm sound). A concept we put on the back-burner as it got a lot of flak & thus we focused on creating an app that wakes you to weather reports, flight status & more. During app's long development process(8 months) we saw reaction to a competing Social Alarm Clock on Rocketboom's Tumblr (http://bit.ly/bSgGdl http://bit.ly/bSgGdl), as well a large company attempting to use our registered trademark(they probably never heard of us so we notified them & they ceased use immediately). Also, our server got hacked & a month later another Social Alarm Clock app was released, except this one's execution was a mirror of the mock up we had in our server. Thus the iphone redesign was pushed back and we finished & released site's original concept in December, though to deaf ears & losing many users. Overall Im at a crossroads with my start-up; not sure if i want to invest any further of my monies into it. Im skilled at front end coding & pay others to do design, back-end & mobile development. It seems now with this article and the iPhone's alarm clock short comings we should have focused on updating our app. It's all a crapshoot & Im somewhat exhausted...