It beeps on far too many occasions (and not in in an entertaining D.R.I.-like cadence), and its lack of a numeric keypad makes it kind of a pain to set it to run for odd durations, and makes setting the clock needlessly complex.
Which leads to the other problem, which is that its designers clearly didn't have a full understanding of how the whole AM/PM thing works. At one second after 11:59:59 AM, it will change to 12:00...AM, as can be seen, blurrily, in this picture of a surprisingly bright and sunny midnight. Oh wait, it's not midnight, it's noon, also known as 12:00 PM.
It doesn't make the AM/PM switch until 1:00. For the first couple of days that I had it, seeing this led me to believe that I'd made some mistake in following the rather arcane method for setting the clock and caused me to go through the various rituals involved in setting the clock several times, only to discover that I had set it for the wrong time in relation to the Meridian.
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