T-Mobile and Microsoft: Sidekick User Data is Gone
Cloud fail
This kind of thing really could happen with any "cloud computing" service...not isolated to microsoft/tmobile. Storing data exclusively on the tubes without the user retaining any local copy is a recipe for disaster. You are at the mercy or whatever backup/disaster recovery policy (or lack there of) the service provider implements.
Sometimes, you have no real method of exporting and backing up the data for yourself.
Just imagine what a sad disaster data loss at MobileMe, GMail, hotmail, or itunes would be? How long do you expect that data to persist, and at what to expense would it be extracted if lost?
Sometimes, you have no real method of exporting and backing up the data for yourself.
Just imagine what a sad disaster data loss at MobileMe, GMail, hotmail, or itunes would be? How long do you expect that data to persist, and at what to expense would it be extracted if lost?
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But the thing I love about MobileMe is that not only is the information stored on my phone, but also my computer. I am not 100 percent sure, but if for some reason the MobileMe cloud went down, the syncing would stop, but all my stuff on my computer and phone would still exist.
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I have MobileMe on two iPhones and a computer. Instant contact sharing is great (adding/changing/deleting contacts appears almost instantly on the other handset). However, since it can delete entries, it makes you wonder what would happen if it synced blank contacts?
Completely unrelated to cloud computing, last year, iTunes decided to sync a blank iphone to my phone. Its very easy to lose all your data...and even more annoying that there is no way to easily keep backup copies of this data.
Completely unrelated to cloud computing, last year, iTunes decided to sync a blank iphone to my phone. Its very easy to lose all your data...and even more annoying that there is no way to easily keep backup copies of this data.
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