When Are iCal Alerts Going to be Fixed?

The iCal alert problem! Those of us with busy daily schedules, set events in iPhone iCal to be reminded at certain times. The problem is the pathetic little "chirp" that goes off for an iCal event, will NOT get your attention. You can't hear it, and it only goes off once. Let us assign one of the ringtones as the iCal event alert instead of that pathetic little "chirp". Also, add a repeat every 15 seconds to the alert, so it goes off every 15 seconds until you press "OK or Cancel" (up to 30 minutes would be good). I can't tell you how many meetings I've missed, scheduled calls to make I've missed, when to take medicines I've missed, and so on. I setup the iCal schedule on the desktop iMac (usually for the month), which syncs to the iPhone. I know several busy people that have this same complaint. This has been a complaint since 2009, and reported several times, when is it going to be fixed? I would love to upgrade from the 3GS to the 4, but if this isn't fixed, I will have to use another brand. I really don't want to, but this feature is too important.

This question is posted here to give others the opportunity to answer, with possible workarounds, until Apple fixes it.
This question also serves as another way to point the problem out to Apple, and possibly get one of their employees to offer an answer or workaround. The whole purpose of this forum is "Support" via "Apple Discussions". If we "discuss" the problem, someone may find the answer. The feedback has already been left about this, by more than one person, since 2009. The only way to deal with this problem, is to let people talk about it.

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