BlackBerry Global Outages Due To European Backup Failure

Jan Schuster · Video Coordinator at PUSH.CA
*Breaking news* RIM has officially changed to RIP.

Krzysztof Pasich · Top Commenter · Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Katowicach
it's too early to announce death of RIM. You will need more outages to cause massive exodus of those loyal consumers that still use RIM products.

Sunil Madhu · Top Commenter · New York, New York
Krzysztof Pasich Android, iOS and Win7 has made RIM all but obsolete

Krzysztof Pasich · Top Commenter · Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Katowicach
Sunil Madhu This is why I said LOYAL customers :)

Joel Rose · UCLA
As a 4 year blackberry owner who can't receive his work emails and is seeing BBM's go through..VERY slowly- You have failed me RIM- I am going to miss your keyboard- but Iphone 4S Here I Come.

Sarah Herman · Los Angeles, California
I actually couldn't agree more!!

Sohan Tanna · Fullhurst Community College
pfft, dramatic

Mary Runway · Atlantis High School
As an iPhone developer and Mac-dork, I still wouldn't count RIM out of the game so easily. The encryption on BIS platforms beats anything through carriers (iPhone runs all its services through carriers or 3rd parties) for security. Its so good shady countries make RIM install authentication servers behind their respective People's Proxies (China!) because they can't snoop RIM comm events so easily as iSwiss Cheese and Hack-a-Droids. Seriously.

And RIM has something going for it with the current Bold form-factor. A real hardkey pad with a touch-screen is good idea that works for a lot of people. This is of course assuming Siri doesn't crush everything text-related. Blackberry would have stayed in much better shape if they would have stayed focused on what they are and what they're good at, instead of trying to imitate Apple's cap-touch interface with those crappy Storms and Torches and Playbooks. Now that they've given up on that I think, they can get good at being Blackberry again.

Sunil Madhu · Top Commenter · New York, New York
The data shows that RIM is slowly diminishing. GenYers like the iPhone and Android consumer devices. Enterprises are increasingly supporting these devices. Cisco for example has its VPN software built right into the iPhone. RIM has already been strongarmed into sharing its data with foreign governments in Asia and the Middle East. The ultimate test is the application space which add a factor of value to the smartphone. Developers are producing apps on Android and iOS on a magnitude that RIM will be likely to create a significant dent into anytime soon. With the advent of Windows 7, Office apps in the cloud and secure PUSH Exchange e-mail, RIM is on its last legs. I'd expect tech savvy users to frequent TechCrunch so their encryption might give you a chubby, but the average consumer doesn't give a fuck about that level of detail. Enterprises care and their employees attitudes towards collaboration will force their hand. RIM will be RIP or be acquired like Nokia. Its only a matter of time.

Mary Runway · Atlantis High School
Sunil Madhu
I don't think RIM is 'officially' done. They've got about I'd say twelve months of breathing room and here's why:

The only interesting thing about iPhone 4S is Siri, everything else is just 'more' of the same and available on lesser cousins via iOS 5. They say Apple has a roadmap but who's driving the car? Not Jobs anymore and no matter the considerable talent there he was the Sun all those planets orbited, so Apple's instantly a different critter than it was just two months ago.

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Maro Onokpise
As a long time BB user and owner this is really getting ridiculous. Email is THE ONE thing that RIM has going for itself, and it can't get that right. It's no wonder that Apple and Android are eating their lunch, dinner, breakfast and any other snacks RIM has left. Lead, follow or get the hell out of the way!

Peter Fabian
I wonder how nobody cares about the fact that it must be really hard (for the people working at RIM) to resolve this very complex technical issue... via SMS... :D

Da Instrumentalz · Top Commenter · Artist at Rare Find Recordings
Blackberry, the new Sony.

Achin Sharma · Top Commenter · Founder at Achshar
so Sony is dead? Ericsson, maybe a stretch but Sony? i really don't think so.
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Richard Madison · Owner at Lightspeed Technologies
Dear Research In Motion, I think it's nice that you are honouring Steve Job's with 3 days of Blackberry silence.

Kevin Fitzgerald
Ouch.

Suvishal Reddy · SE at Motorola
It looks like RIM ( blackberry ) is trying hard to push all its customers to Apple! Please take freeway 280N as 10! N is under construction!

Brittney Michelle
yes I want an iPhone! I have the new blackberry bold touch and it sucks. I am glad I got it for free cause I would be pissed!!!!

Mindy M. Hull · Founder & Managing Director at Mercury Global Partners
Failure of EPIC proportions...

Mahir Ko. · Université de Picardie Jules Verne
iMessage!

Jasmin Redzepagic · Editor-in-Chief at PCchip
Interesting that this becomes news only today, after 3 days of european blackout. Probably only because USA customers got involved. And I am not buying this story about a switch failover fail, my guess is a failed upgrade that was meant to impress developers at Devcon (coming up in a couple of days)..

Kevin Van Wieren
This is an example of modern day Pan Am syndrome. They've got a closed network competing in an open world, several notable product launch failures and an arrogant executive management team. These guys are on life support and I give them 18-24 months, tops, before they're bought for pennies on the dollar.

Joshua-Derek Jason Bossman · Boston, Massachusetts
This is not funny at all. I can understand that technical failures can happen at any time but this is only going to hurt them at a time when they can ill afford it.

Ayodele Aiyeleye · Lagos, Nigeria
RIM, u guyz have been good...i'm sure u will get over this in due time & ensure it doesn't happen again. U r still my favourite, through thick & thin.....
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Mihai Negrea
and I still cannot use my expensieve data plan... but i`m paying for it... i`m so happy :|.

Bradley Ward · Cashier at Walmart Canada
Sigh. I miss blackberry being up...but we now know how much is tied to the BB servers.

Eric Okoh · Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria
please when will this problem be over?

Jason Cornish · 24 years old
Well....Im not surprised.

Matt Labour · Top Commenter · Dordrecht
Don't own a BB, and most certainly won't own one now. S user here :)

Decklan Jones · Croydon College
BBM will be coming bck on in 34 hours wooop wooop :)

William Kwil · Top Commenter · Petersham TAFE
I don't know why people would still continue to use or buy an outdated obsolete Blackberry phone?

Simon George
...text?

Andre Perinchief
Yeah black berry suck.

Rachit Kakkar · Kurukshetra University
WTF?

Vincent Kinon · Lycée Turgot
RISM > RIM.
RISM : Research In Slow Motion.