It's an old law: winners provoke jealousy and therefore criticism:
When the iPhone clock gave troubles when turning the clocks from normal time to summer time (daylight saving time (DST)) and back, the critics of malfunction could be calmed down quite easily.
Now, entering the New Year, the same bug occured and could not be solved by Apple until January 3.
Certainly this causes criticism and others are just mocking around a bit – some in quite a funny way:
Mashable, e.g., gave some hints how to install a reliable clock ;-) and Padmini Harchandrai (CNN) summarizes as the following:
"Really Apple? Y2K was so ten years ago!"