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That is both true and kind of my point. People take a LOT of less controversial stuff to Twitter in a heartbeat :D
I would agree if it was any smaller company than Apple.
They knew eventually someone would find out, and for a company that let their people sign their motherboard (inside of the computer) this is a blow to their reputation, at the very least among engineers.
Meanwhile fixing
I don't think either of these are true, for the same technical reason.
This is not a blow to engineering reputation; it's a pretty solid signal that an engineer found an (almost!) intractable solution to a likely much more complicated problem. I applaud finding these solutions
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I hope people know their solution is gonna be to make the list even longer to make it impractical to find out again
Steve Jobs isn’t rolling in his grave, he is actually descending down a really long hole
does it really matter? the average person isnt fucking scrolling this far. such a retarded thing for people to complain about.
Sometimes the best engineering is invisible. If it works and nobody notices, that's a win in my book.
Why would anyone think of, “Does the time picker ever end?.. Let’s find out!”? I mean, if it is working, why would anyone try that? And why would Apple put an easter egg there? 
My favorite part about this is they got to 4 pm and said “screw it” and stopped
UI patterns that work are invisible. The moment users notice the mechanism, you've failed. This is why most "innovative" interfaces die quickly.
Not to mention the Level tab in the Measure app no longer works because of the non-flat backside of the phone.
Circular buffers are not some over engineered data structure for a time picker. In fact it’s the canonical use case.
that was sorta my takeaaay too - has it always been this way? and if so… fine? couple billion devices and no one cared
Why is this being shopped around as some profound engineering masterstroke? Is it that it might have saved someone a day of work?
Would’ve been awesome if they sneaked in an Easter egg at the end of that scroll
The real question I have now is, do all of the time-picker dial plugins also use long lists instead of loops?
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sure but, was the limitation against doing it so great they couldnt have just done it
Wouldn't pragmatic engineering involve telling the design team to politely fuck off and make it a list from 1 to 12 instead?
Truly insightful. Sometimes the simplest solutions are the most elusive, proving the value of persistent observation.
Even more pragmatic would be to make it stop at the ends. I hate how hard its to use it and miss. When a simple list lets you shoot to 0 or 59 and then adjust.
Also AM/PM format should disappear. After 11AM you have 12PM, and after 12PM you have 1PM?!! It’s nuts
Is this just a limitation of the gui widgets? Why on earth would you do this?
How much you wanna bet it’s some super legacy implementation that just kept getting style reworks and since it has never caused issues they just left it and forgot
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This is solved in one line with math. It ain't that hard even.
The workaround is the solution of a person who cannot think outside the box. Awful
And yet you have to move the hour and minute so an alarm could be 8.00am or 8.59am with a small slip. That’s always felt like poor engineering to me
I realized it when I started learning Objective-C/Swift, that was more than 8 years ago. Surprised that people (in tech) didn’t know this already. 
What if that’s the reason the alarm doesn’t go off or stays silent sometimes. It has to do with which hour in the list of hours you pick?
Multiple people definitely found out
There just isn’t multiple people with hit tweets about it lol
What is really surprising is that Siri can't still program alarms that are in longer than 24 hours
naah, I would agree if this was a harder problem to solve. But a circular picker? This sounds like laziness or just lack of experience.
Is this pragmatic? An array stored in memory (albeit a very small one) isn't better than a constant-time algorithm that'll loop numbers.
yes but it’s THE PRINCIPLE.
this is android behavior. a total miscarriage of JUSTICE
I bet you a toddler had a phone and was just scrolling and then the parent saw it and was like wtf and posted it 
I’d have been mildly tempted to put one number out of order to see if anyone noticed
Starting to think that seamless infinite marquee might be more of a bitch to program than i thought lmfao
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Sometimes the best solutions are the ones nobody notices for years. That's real engineering magic.
Btw: not only in alarm clock, just every picker in the system apparently. And it's fine
I swear I vaguely remember scrolling all the way down this on my moms phone like 7 years ago lol
I found this accidentally 5+ years ago, but I just thought "huh" and went on with my day
I think it's mostly that no one would have thought someone would be stupid enough to implement it this way so they never checked
