well, the entire premise of this clock was based on useless blotaed pointless gimmick exercize

If you mean the 'native nokia clock alarms' I think would be great and just let people fight with it (let the OS managing all the troubles and receive all the complain) but Im not sure how hard/possible the integration can be.
Anyway I have more than 1 complain about the reliable of maemo os, the led notify, powersetting, alarmd seem working pretty randomly on my tablet (keyboards always on/always off, screen that should stay on stay off and viceversa, led stop blinking at all, random dead of alarmd, battery check that trigger weird service and notifies, os not always aware of charging status... ). an HUGE mess if you ask my wortless newbie opinion and I really love having to deal as less as I can.
Said this the integration still have huge advantages (and have more sense looking at the future in next OS version) and one of the reason I started the app was because I feel terribly sad and the actual maemo alarm input dialog (pretty impossible to use without the stylus).
Like I already said in a previous post (really exist people that didn't read all the previous 400 posts?) the alarmd betrayed too many time and Ill keep my own version that will directly trig the alarm only when the application is on but Im pretty convinced that the alarmd version is the one should go in the Extra repository.

By now the application is made in Italy, UK and somewhere in US (not sure were Jolouis is), look as cheap as a chinese clock (check the old wood 'theme' to see when the made in china showed up the 1st time) and it is been made in Finland for a while but I removed that after I 'get pissed' after a brief discussion about using the nokia logo. [brains?]

I dont understand if 'out of control' in a positive or negative way
in any case Im never been able to keep things under control: let the chaos reign