engadget.com— T-Mobile's now reporting that personal data stored on Sidekicks has "almost certainly has been lost as a result of a server failure at Microsoft/Danger."
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I didn't mean as a result of the lost data. I meant a lawsuit due to the fact that T-mobile failed to warn their customers about them having no back-up whatsoever.
In Australia you can get an iPhone on one of several different networks. I assume you're from America (baseless assumtion, but I know Americans can only get an iPhone from AT&T), America isn't the world...yet.
Actually, my sister purchased a sidekick lx off of ebay a few months back to replace her old razr and she never had a data plan or anything. She just uses voice and text. T-Mobile never forced her to switch to a sidekick plan or anything. She has all of her contacts stored locally so she wasnt affected by this issue.
@ MyKillK, RE: " .. Just look at their website. Microsoft's name is all over it, even on Danger's logo. This is what the home page says first and foremost<a class="user" href="http://www.danger.com/index.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.danger.com/index.php</a>&quot;Danger is now a part of Microsoft's new Premium Mobile Experiences (PMX) team, a group within the Mobile Communications Business (MCB) of the Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft. Danger will continue to build great, intuitive client software for mobile handsets connected to powerful hosted back-end services that fosters rich consumer experiences in communication, media sharing, entertainment and personalization. Having the combined forces of Danger & Microsoft will strengthen our ability to provide innovative mobile experiences to more consumers."Good point.
Nope, you've got it wrong. It's syncing to a server with no data, erasing all the locally saved data. Unfortunately, the sync is automatic. They didn't adequately design for this (obviously) and the result is mass data-loss. It's like the classic example, RAID won't save you from accidentally deleting your thesis. In this case, it doesn't matter that the handsets had everyone's data. The server happily started remote-wiping them.
seems like the point was missed, its not about failure, its about CONTROL. You can control a local computer, you can open and modify it, change the software dop what you want basically.However if your computer is a dummy terminal, thin client, cloud computer or whatever you chose to call them you cant do anything, most if not all of its software is stored, managed and controlled by the provider.Imagine a world where MS control both the software and hardware? that would suck ass!!Also Mateo, i would rather be in control of my own data and storage that some indian guy thousands of miles away!!!
idontevenOct 12, 2009
I didn't mean as a result of the lost data. I meant a lawsuit due to the fact that T-mobile failed to warn their customers about them having no back-up whatsoever.
Closed AccountOct 12, 2009
In Australia you can get an iPhone on one of several different networks. I assume you're from America (baseless assumtion, but I know Americans can only get an iPhone from AT&T), America isn't the world...yet.
jessi3k3Oct 12, 2009
Actually, my sister purchased a sidekick lx off of ebay a few months back to replace her old razr and she never had a data plan or anything. She just uses voice and text. T-Mobile never forced her to switch to a sidekick plan or anything. She has all of her contacts stored locally so she wasnt affected by this issue.
mrbitchOct 12, 2009
@ MyKillK, RE: " .. Just look at their website. Microsoft's name is all over it, even on Danger's logo. This is what the home page says first and foremost<a class="user" href="http://www.danger.com/index.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.danger.com/index.php</a>&quot;Danger is now a part of Microsoft's new Premium Mobile Experiences (PMX) team, a group within the Mobile Communications Business (MCB) of the Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft. Danger will continue to build great, intuitive client software for mobile handsets connected to powerful hosted back-end services that fosters rich consumer experiences in communication, media sharing, entertainment and personalization. Having the combined forces of Danger & Microsoft will strengthen our ability to provide innovative mobile experiences to more consumers."Good point.
jarailOct 13, 2009
Nope, you've got it wrong. It's syncing to a server with no data, erasing all the locally saved data. Unfortunately, the sync is automatic. They didn't adequately design for this (obviously) and the result is mass data-loss. It's like the classic example, RAID won't save you from accidentally deleting your thesis. In this case, it doesn't matter that the handsets had everyone's data. The server happily started remote-wiping them.
t4m5t3rOct 15, 2009
seems like the point was missed, its not about failure, its about CONTROL. You can control a local computer, you can open and modify it, change the software dop what you want basically.However if your computer is a dummy terminal, thin client, cloud computer or whatever you chose to call them you cant do anything, most if not all of its software is stored, managed and controlled by the provider.Imagine a world where MS control both the software and hardware? that would suck ass!!Also Mateo, i would rather be in control of my own data and storage that some indian guy thousands of miles away!!!