Comment 2 for bug 1483890

What about:

I set my phone phone to silent mode, because I don't want notifications or calls to wake me up during the night.
In the morning, the alarm clock doesn't ring, I don't wake up, I go to work late, I get fired and I blame the <insert alternate OS here> phone for it and trash it

:)

Jokes aside: case 1) is not as trivial decision as it may sound, if you think about it :) and most (if not all) mobile operating systems will indeed play the alarm sound even when the phone is in silent mode, mainly to avoid the situation I described above.

I, for instance, agree with that, and I'm used to phones which always ring my alarm, because the alarm is something you *actively* set up, so it is more likely that you want it to be played no matter what.

I wouldn't use a phone which forces me to make sure I disable silent mode every evening before going to bed ;)