Oh, how we bet a few employees at T-Mobile and Danger are sure wishing they had alternative jobs right now. Especially if they were the ones involved with the server meltdown that resulted in thousands of Sidekick owners losing massive amounts of data.
For those of you who don't know, the Sidekick mobile device from T-Mobile "phones home" each time it starts up and syncs its data with a server. Well, Microsoft and their subsidiary, Danger, recently outsourced the oversight of said servers. And they outsourced it to a company that is apparently opposed to backups of vital data. You know, customer data. Who needs that anyways?
So the servers went kaput, and unknowing users rebooted their Sidekicks to sync with a blank server. This got them a fancy new blank Sidekick! No contacts or any other data slowing them down now.
To keep the angry mobs at bay, T-Mobo has offered up a free month of service for Sidekickers as well as a $100 gift card. Can we get a gift card too? Just for being a T-Mobile customer? We didn't think so...
Top 4 Reasons to Drop Your Sidekick
1. It's 2009 (almost 2010)
2. Drop it or potentially drop your data
3. It involves Microsoft and outsourced servers (probably not a good idea to begin with)
4. Seriously, one of the companies that you are trusting your data with is named Danger. Isn't that a bad sign in some cultures?
Update:
It looks like Microsoft is now saying that the lost data will be recovered for Sidekick owners: MS Says All Sidekick Data Recovered, But Damage Done
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