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BlackBerry Outage Spreads To North America
iONiUM writes "With increasing pressure on RIM to catch up to the new phones, and the upcoming release of the iPhone 4S, could this three day outage of BlackBerry's service be a nail in the coffin? From the article 'The service disruptions are the worst since an outage swept north America two years ago, and come as Apple prepares to put on sale its already sold-out iPhone 4S on Friday.'"
This is the same outage as was reported Monday. RIM has released a few details on what's happened: a failed software upgrade brought the system down, and, after repairing the first issue, the backlog of traffic overwhelmed their network infrastructure taking things down a second time.
And nothing of value was lost.
Also, BB owners shoulda thought of that before buying a phone with a centralized web proxy and messaging!
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You'd think they would have highly paid people to foresee these kind of problems and have a contingency plan for to prevent a massive outage? Nah, they cost too much.
Yes, it's a good thing to mention that the iPhone 4S is sold out and coming out this week. Because as we all know, iOS 5 doesn't move almost every single existing feature that iOS has onto the iCloud, where similar outages can now affect Apple users.
Nope. Definitely worth mentioning the iPhone 4S, because it totally competes with the Blackberry when it comes to enterprise services and security.
Oh, wait, everything I've said so far is wrong. Oops.
Seriously, what does the iPhone have to do with a Blackberry outage? No one using a Blackberry is going to switch to the iPhone, because the iPhone doesn't fill the same niche in any way. If you want a phone that can play Angry Birds, get an iPhone.
If you want a phone that can integrate with your existing IT infrastructure, you get a Blackberry or an Android.
The RIM outage might push more people over to Android, but it's not going to push anyone to iPhone. The iPhone is a shiny consumer toy, it's not a serious smart phone. The fact that the great new features for the iPhone 4S are a camera and a greeting card service is proof enough of that.
Its acceptable and funny to make fun of Canadians, because it makes no sense. You've got a pretty decent economy, health care system, education system, great beer, doughnuts, ect. Its an ironic insult, that is really an insult at one's own nationality. Plus, everyone knows that the best comedians are Canadian, and they've given us a lot of material to work with.
So you'll just have to live with being praised with humour, or you'll have to move to the states.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
IMHO blackberries are still superior devices when looked at through the myopic view of being a for-work device. However.. as a "personal" device that occasionally gets used for work I'd prefer an iPhone/Android over a blackberry.
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