There ’s no such affair as a good time for RIM toleave half its client without messaging or internet . But the problem ’s been get worse , not better — on the day that Apple makes its strong case for full dominance .
https://gizmodo.com/have-you-been-hit-by-the-blackberry-outage-5849040
mass of shot have been aim at RIM late , hereand elsewhere . But I ’m not certain anyone counted this one among them : a famed proprietary system that , when compromised , puts 70 million masses in the dark . Every last spot of information that flows to and from a BlackBerry does so through RIM ’s vast surface area of servers . When those servers go done for ? So do the sound .
https://gizmodo.com/ten-reasons-why-blackberry-is-screwed-5812832
RIM held a call this afternoon to address the damage , but did n’t offer much by way of a solution . They still have n’t determine the root cause of whyits core switch failed , much less why backup systems did n’t carry through the day . And all this meter , e-mail and BBMs keep piling up , clogging the pipe even more . Oh , and when your service is restored ? anticipate your inbox to be jammed up as it processes hours ( days ? ) of unreceived message . You ’ll get them all finally , RIM say . But it ’s go to be a gigantor - sized pain in the neck .
https://gizmodo.com/rim-our-bbm-core-switch-failed-then-our-back-up-faile-5848962
add together up every other matter we ’ve ever written about why BlackBerry is break down . This is worse . It ’s worse because it ’s something that was previously think to be irreproachable . RIM ’s handsets have fallen behind , okay , but there ’s BBM . The PlayBook has n’t lived up to its potential , but at least it ’s lock - solid reliable for enterprise . flange ’s reliability was somewhat much all it had left ; its failure is like chance out that a million Volvos spontaneously combusted in a million driveways .
Those apprehensive about security department , for now you should n’t : RIM say it does n’t think they got hack on . But for those upset about the company ’s future , the fact that this was a systemic failure and not third - party havoc should be positively cool . They do n’t bed what go on . They do n’t live how to gear up it . They just know that it ’s their own faulting .
Meanwhile : Apple . There ’s been enough writtenhere and elsewhere about iOS 5 , which is clean and substance abuser - friendly and functional . The iPhone 4S will be here in two days . And when you ’re abandoned in a data - less desert , there ’s no more beguiling haven than Apple ’s . Your whoreson ’s collapse , iTunes calls out . Ours is shining and new . Yes , iCloud could well unravel into another MobileMe . But that does n’t mean the gage on its side is any less greenish today .
https://gizmodo.com/ios-5-the-top-10-new-features-5849064
In the short - term , certain , iOS has in all likelihood gobbled up some of the headline outer space that would otherwise have been devoted to BlackBerry . But that does n’t matter to the IT manager who ’s had 10,000 worker with break phones all daylight . It does n’t help oneself the bond trader who ca n’t raise the nursing home office . All it does is prompt the people who ’ve spent the solar day with a useless lummox of charge plate in their pockets that it does n’t have to be like this .
In the interim , BlackBerry user whose earpiece have move flabby , take heart that you may at least still text . And , as luck would have it for RIM , S.O.S. comes in way under 160 characters .
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