Originally Posted by
mahasamatman
Which would immediately result in a long thread on how the hotel didn't provide tha most advanced iPhone-compatible clock in the room.
So a hotel has 2 choices.
Simple clock, and get grief from the hyper tech savvy.
Techie clock (a la iHome), and get grief from travelers who just want to (a) know the time, (b) enable/disable the alarm quickly and easily.
Anybody who is truly tech savvy knows not to plug personal devices into arbitrary ports, anyhow.