Poor BlackBerry

So, I listened to the BlackBerry press conference this morning. Since we support dozens of BES servers it had an impact on our business and customers were calling in thinking their devices were all broken and servers were locked up. I feel bad for BlackBerry, they got totally shitcanned with this outage. I bet millions of people were affected since it spanned dozens of countries across multiple continents. I have to say I don’t understand the panic it caused though. People are all up in arms at RIM for the service being down. Mind you, these people could make a call, that wasn’t the problem. They couldn’t get email or send texts. I really don’t think that was worth the outcry and backlash they received. It’s called email, instant messaging, or picking up the phone and calling someone. Don’t sit there and bitch because you can’t get email when you have at least three other ways of getting in touch […]