(I suppose you can hum to Radar … but not really.)Īs I sit on my phone trying to decide if it’s easier hum to Summit or Slow Rise, though, I can’t help but think about how seemingly mundane design decisions from companies like Apple ripple out in to real consequences for user health and well-being. Or, put more simply in the words of Slate writer Dan Kois: “I still use Radar, because I am stupid.”Īn easy way to assess whether an alarm is a good option, said McFarlane, is to ask whether you can hum or whistle to it-that means it’s melodic. But most mornings we still end up waking up to Radar. I have-largely at the request of my husband, a Samsung user whose default alarm is much more soothing-tried to replace the sounds of my existing alarms with something less horrific. … and also because I have basically not deleted any of the alarms set in my 10 years of iPhone ownership. I feel similarly: I have alarms waiting to be switched on at 95 different times a day (literally)-both because I am the type of person who programs alarms at 6:00 a.m., 6:05 a.m., 6:10 a.m., 6:15 a.m. Shannon Palus, a Slate senior editor who mixes Radar with a variety of other alarm sounds, including Radar and the terrifying “ Classic Alarm,” described herself as “angry but also ambivalent!” about the options. Those of us who do keep using Radar do so out of a reckless, stubborn inertia, or the ~shrug emoji~ feeling that the alternatives aren’t much better.
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