T-Mobile and Microsoft: Sidekick User Data is Gone
It's Microsoft
It is like they keep innovating for new ways to screw something up. Their entire mobile strategy is rubbish, and it is unfortunate they have done to Danger what Daimler did to Chrysler.
This is why no business should ever consider anything Microsoft makes as something professional grade. They make shoddy, shoddy products.
This is why no business should ever consider anything Microsoft makes as something professional grade. They make shoddy, shoddy products.
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bluecoyote said:
It is like they keep innovating for new ways to screw something up. Their entire mobile strategy is rubbish, and it is unfortunate they have done to Danger what Daimler did to Chrysler.
This is why no business should ever consider anything Microsoft makes as something professional grade. They make shoddy, shoddy products.
Well, YOU've said it, so it must be true. 🙄
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The fact is that Danger hasn't been absorbed into MS on a service or network level yet. The Danger service is unaltered from it's pre-Microsoft acquisition form.
I think that puts all your comments on the ass-clownery pile.
I think that puts all your comments on the ass-clownery pile.
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What I don't understand about what the article said is it made mention of information both on the Sidekick and on servers. How is it that information stored directly on the device be lost if it's the servers that fkd up?
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they should be saved to the SIM, but maybe its their data back up of their devices and it went down? makes no sense..the server going down should not effect the phones at all.
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The sidekick's are weird. All of the user's information is stored on the sidekick server-that's why T-Mobile requires you purchase an internet package with the sidekick. If you don't, and you turn your phone off, all your information is gone-hence the loss of all user-end info.
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personal information stored on your device - such as contacts, calendar entries, to-do lists or photos - that is no longer on your Sidekick almost certainly has been lost as a result of a server failure at Microsoft/Danger.
Wrong. All Sidekick info is automatically "backed up" on the server. mms, contacts whatev. I upgraded from a sidekick ID to an 08 and didn't even need to copy my contacts to the sim to get them on the new phone.
I personally haven't lost anything in the outage... just been very irritated over the past 2 weeks....
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Yeah listen, before you reply to my comment with some stupid incorrect crap, MS is currently managing the Danger unit for the "Pink" project and had reportedly shelled the operating unit leaving insufficient resources to cope with this.
See also:
http://www.hiptop3.com/archives/what-caused-the-side ... »
See also:
http://www.hiptop3.com/archives/what-caused-the-side ... »
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bluecoyote said:...it is unfortunate they have done to Danger what Daimler did to Chrysler...
that's funny i always thought that chrysler messed up daimler...
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Actually Chrysler messed up Daimler so bad that they dumped them like a hot potato a few years back. Seeing as what has now happened to Chrysler, I'm sure that Daimler is glad that they did so.
Anyway, this Sidekick thing is a epic cloud computing fail. Just should not have happened.
Anyway, this Sidekick thing is a epic cloud computing fail. Just should not have happened.
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No, Chrysler had $10,000,000.00 that Daimler fed off of and invested none of it back into Chrysler, which caused Chrysler to fail.
Danger had engineering talent and innovation MS lacked, MS sucked 'em dry and now this.
Danger had engineering talent and innovation MS lacked, MS sucked 'em dry and now this.
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I disagree, as a long time Tmobile employee this is the fourth time this has happened since I worked there. Danger always had a crappy model, they don't like or care for their customer, and this can be verified by going to their site and seeing their lack of "contact us" option. If they don't have to hear the customer's whine or complain, it makes them very insensitive to the customer's needs. Why should you lose your information on the sk if it's power dies, you're out of range of Tmo's network, or power cycle the phone? A poorly designed and implemented device.
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