Mobile phones & tablets thread

[GridGirl]

That would never happen on a BlackBerry???? You dont have to be ashamed to say that Henners.

[ioan]

Seems that the BlackBerry network crashed today although I didnt notice any problems myself.

BBC News - Blackberry services down in Europe, Middle East and Africa

Didn't have any problems on mine, emails kept arriving all day long.

[ioan]

R.I.P.

I've never owned and will never own Apple devices but I realize he was fundamental in making gadgets easy to use for normal people.

^ This!

[GridGirl]

Didn't have any problems on mine, emails kept arriving all day long.

My emails kept arriving all day too although I could have done with some not getting through. The article said that not many business users were affected as they use a different server.

[Mark]

Let us know how it goes! I'm planning to upgrade at the weekend.

[Andrewmcm]

It's always worth waiting a few days before updating iOS software to check user reaction. I mistakenly put iOS4 on my former iPhone 3G immediately upon release, and the new operating system slowed the phone to a crawl.

[ArrowsFA1]

And before you update to iOS5:
iTunes 10.5 Lands Ahead of iOS 5

[Knock-on]

Well, I think this heralds the beginning of the end for RIM and if the information I have heard is correct, then they need shooting

As a business continuity expert, I was horrified to learn that this issue was caused by excess data buffering due to a system failure. This is totally unacceptable for a business critical communication platform. You would imagine that a company whose whole reputation and business hinges on the resilience of it's service would ensure that not only has it sufficient capacity in place in it's primary and secondary data centers to automatically fail-over live service but that these are replicated on at least a 3rd party, network and geographically independent site.

This is not rocket engineering but basic good practice. I don't know what the specific situation is but suspect that this failure was caused by the outage of what they consider a non-primary system and therefore not in their top tier critical recovery strategy. Whatever the cause, it exposes a flawed and unproven Business Continuity Plan which will petrify it's corporate clients. How many other holes are there and why did their BCP stress testing not identify such a fundamental failing.

Could it possibly be that RIM try to do everything in-house?

If this was a Financial organisation, RIM would have had strict regulatory policies that demand a proven BCP is in place to cover it's exposure and most major financial organistions go way beyond this requirement because the threat to their reputation of any outage is too much of a risk. We are not talking about the revenue loss of any downtime although this could run into many millions but the PR disaster can easily crush a company that investors lose faith in. RIM may well be caught in a crippling PR trap of their own making.

Basically, RIM may be in the crap.

[Mark]

Agree with all of that! RIM was in trouble anyway as Blackberry is old news now. This is the last thing they needed.

[race aficionado]

Agree with all of that! RIM was in trouble anyway as Blackberry is old news now. This is the last thing they needed.

It's also intresting that the Blackberry phone has such a loyal fan base.

I used to own one and I was confortable with it and it had a cool simple brick game included in it that I loved but the option for the iPhone just took over.

Nonetheless, I know of many friends that still have their Blackberry and have not gone to the other side (iPhones, Androids, etc.)
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