http://mobilitysite.disqus.com/enSun, 11 Oct 2009 21:52:01 -0000http://www.mobilitysite.com/2009/10/sidekick-debacle-casts-a-black-cloud/#comment-19871954<p>From what I've read, something happened with the database, so when a Sidekick synced, it looked like all of the data was gone and that caused the data to be removed from the Sidekick, too. So if they can't recover the data on the servers, users are hosed. That will be a huge black eye for Microsoft (who bought Danger).</p><p>I can't believe the system wouldn't have a failsafe in place, indicating that the data sources were down and syncing was temporarily disabled. As long as the data is kept on both the device and the servers (implying a bi-directional sync), things would have been OK.</p><p>A purely Internet-based storage system would be hosed regardless, of course.</p><p>Steve</p>Pony99CASun, 11 Oct 2009 21:52:01 -0000