Please stop feeding the TROLL.

Point one and three are no more criticisms of the N900 specifically than the criticism of the capacitive screen is a criticism of the iPhone.

Point two is valid, but it effects some N900s, while plenty of users have reported abusing their N900's usb ports, with no loosening. A comparable hardware level decision is the iPhone 4 antenna placement. Except, near as I can tell, those N900s with USB port problems came from shitty batches, and their likelyhood of USB port damage is more dependent on the fact that you got that N900, while the iPhone 4's antenna issue seems to be similar on all phones, but whether or not it effects you depends on the exact conduciveness of your fingers to shorting the gaps... Which any electronics or biology/chemistry specialists may correct me on, but as far as I know depends on things like how oily your fingers are, how many capillaries you have, etc. Which in turn depends on what life has caused to happen to your fingers, what genes control in that regard, etc.

I know the N900 has flaws, and some do affect all devices. For the things that I value in devices, those flaws combined with the N900's strength are almost nothing in comparison to what the iPhones have. BUT that's not what I'm discussing here, because that's a matter of taste and personal preference (though in my opinion it puts the N900 on a much more stone-resistant basis than the iPhone). I just think the criticisms said so far don't apply the same way this alarm thing does (though I don't really think that's a big deal either - **** happens, companies make software with bugs, and at least Apple pushes updates out more often than Nokia), and that the "is that all you got" post is completely irrelevant, because it isn't actually sound.

Nokia hardware glitch leave me, -N900 user- sleep and I late from my workplace 2 times.

This isn't really a big deal, even gorilla glass can be scratched, maybe not easily, but I just know it would would happen to me, so I'd want to use a screen protector anyway. And the screen protectors I have for my N900 are silky smooth and dirt cheap, so it's no big deal if I scratch a screen protector.

I never trust my alarms to anything I can't wind. I'm old school like that... but I wake up on time.

This bickering about a flaw that's shown up before in the past, usually around daylight savings time or if the internal clock life goes wonky, like it did with the Zune and that's all the fodder you guys have?

A faulty clock? Seriously. Most of these damn contraptions have more faulty stuff than this.

My girl needs to be at work first, an hour before I start. So I wake up in the morning about fifteen minutes before her to make coffee. I wake up, that is, if the alarm actually works. As much as I despise Apple´s business policy, my n900 is far from flawless. It just isn´t. This morning I woke up about half an hour after my alarm should´ve gone off. The third time it happened since I bought my device.

I see no point in focussing on Apple´s shortcomings. If the people that continually seem to waste their time doing so would actually educate themselves and started working on improving their device´s software, the n900 might have been pretty close to flawless right now.

I have at least three people near me that I see on a regular basis, who brag about their Apple devices continuously. I just nod my head at their superiority-claims and remain silent. Here I just shake my head at the sillyness of wasting time bashing Apple.

Oh damn! Somebody gets it!

On the other hand, I was just reading an article linked to from a post on Hawaii's (a member here, rather Linux and pen-testing savvy) twitter, where it was mentioned that this isn't the first time Apple has f'ked up their alarm.

Eh, maybe it's 'silly', but pointing out flaws in the way someone/something does things, when it's poignant and sound, isn't exactly silly in my book, ever, barring extremely exceptional circumstances.

I was happy to agree with the above post before, but given that Apple has had the same bug in earlier versions of their iOS, I find that to be just... *Sigh* At least Nokia has the decency to WONTFIX their bugs, instead of fixing a bug that occurred at a temporal moment in the past, only to leave in presumably similar iterations of the same bug coming up in the future.