It's confession time. I'm an Apple Fanboy. I've got an iPhone. I've got an iPod Nano. I've got my own personal MacBook. And i've also inherited a MacBook Pro for work. I am an Apple Fanboy through and through. If I could justify the expense of an iPad, then I would.
So, given my love for their products, it takes a quite serious violation for me to be annoyed by any of my Apple products. It's usually my fault things go wrong, not theirs. But this morning, my iPhone did not awaken me at 7am with We Are Scientists' After Hours. This is the first time, ever, that my iPhone has not awoken me when expected. Slightly unusual as I have a repeated alarm set, for 7am every day Monday to Friday. So what went wrong?
Well, it starts with the fact that yesterday I took a trip to Newcastle on the train, with walking to the station and a huge delay I listened to music for almost 5 hours yesterday. I was quite bored on the train too, so I was played Bejeweled too. Fun fun fun. Anyways, I was quite heavy on my battery use yesterday. By the time I went to bed, I only had 3% of juice left. My late-night facebooking drained the last of the juice in my battery to nothing. The iPhone turned off. So, I plugged it into charge, turned over and went to sleep expecting that my repeating alarm would wake me up the next morning.
I already know that the phone has to be turned on for the alarm to work, but I expected that plugging my juice-empty phone into a power supply would power it back up and the alarm would go off as expected. My mental model of the situation was that plugging the phone in would turn it back on. I don't think that's unreasonable. But evidently it was wrong. My mental model was not supported, and my alarm didn't go off.
Now, actually, it was quite nice to have a lie in. So, in the words of a loyal twitter follower, my iPhone was actually sufficiently intuitive to know that I needed a lie in and gave me that option. Ah sweet iPhone, how could I ever doubt you?
Disclaimer: I wrote this post a long time ago, but for reasons that currently elude me I didn't post it.
