The worldwide Blackberry outage yesterday made me appreciate my Treo 700wx a lot more. Yesterday's outage is not the first time that RIM has had an outage and it probably won't be the last. Every time it happens I thank my lucky stars that my Treo is able to handle multiple email accounts so that if one goes down, I always have another.
It seems to me that RIM will need to do a major overhaul of the way it delivers emails to its customers. It is just not acceptable that they can have a worldwide outage no matter what. It would be understandable if certain areas experienced outages, but to have the entire system go down shows a weakness in development and planning.
Will the outage slow RIM down? Probably not. They definitely have the "buzz" factor going. I love the Blackberry for its ease of use, but for the bulk of my email reading, I'm sticking to my Treo.
It seems to me that RIM will need to do a major overhaul of the way it delivers emails to its customers. It is just not acceptable that they can have a worldwide outage no matter what. It would be understandable if certain areas experienced outages, but to have the entire system go down shows a weakness in development and planning.
Will the outage slow RIM down? Probably not. They definitely have the "buzz" factor going. I love the Blackberry for its ease of use, but for the bulk of my email reading, I'm sticking to my Treo.
