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    notsodarling: During the snafu a month ago, I cancelled my T-Mobile plan and switched to an iPhone. I'd originally gotten a Sidekick a couple years ago, but felt no... more »
    Dacker: Oh -- a phone. And here I thought that Phillippe Kahn and Borland Sidekick were back! ;-) #sidekick more »
    Monty: To be fair, didn't they recover the data after a couple of weeks? So, it was more like a temporary amnesia. That is perfectly fine for me because I ... more »
    Brazell: I never got into the sidekick thing, but I hear they're popular with youths. What's the deal, are they just texting devices? Phones? Someone fill m... more »
    chauncy that billups: Sidekicks are so 2002. #sidekick more »
    UnderLoK: I wonder how many people lost their jobs over this? It's an oddity how many IT folks preach about backups, disaster recovery, and the like yet walk b... more »
    Duckspwn: This makes me angry. No, I'm not mad at the companies involved. I'm mad at the massive toddler bitchfit that resulted from this outage. Give me a brea... more »
    Kaiser-Machead: That's provided all of those SK owners out there haven't already gnawed their phones in half. #sidekickdatarecovered more »
    fuchikoma: And the backup tapes? So... assuming that was technically possible, part of the timebomb then looked and functioned like the backup software, but eras... more »
    SigmundTheSeaMonster: Aha! I see the same folks that wrote the Guest Login Erase bug for Snow Leopard, work at a Microsoft Data Center! more »
    axiomatic: I Can't Stand It, I Know You Planned It Ima Set It Straight, This Watergate I Can't Stand Rockin' When I'm In Here 'Cause Your Crystal Ball Ain't So C... more »
    UnderLoK: As others have touched on; more likely the backups were garbage and they had a failure which they couldn’t recover from. This kind of thing happens... more »
    DrunkenOstrich: I call BS. A service with this many users and this much historical data would likely be spread across MANY backup tapes. So the timebomb not only wi... more »
    zaghy2zy: ahuh? erased backup tapes? and how exactly could that happen? as far as i know, backup tapes are to be kept off site once backup is complete. Or at l... more »
    dimes: Hahahahha, don't ascribe to Evil what you can easily be explained by stupidity and negligence....or however the saying goes. It doesn't have to be so... more »
    idkmbffc: What the shit do the Beastie Boys have anything to do with this? more »
    badhatharry: I know somebody on the inside, and he says that the company can't stand it, and that they know they planned it. But not to worry, they're going to se... more »
    civlyun: Erased the backup tapes? Even offsite ones [what, didn't have any?]? Even the ones at the backup site [what, didn't have any?]? That's a neat trick. more »
    Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: Look, Sidekick, I know this is your time in the spotlight, and I'ma gonna let you talk in a minute but the iPhone lets you back up your contacts to yo... more »
    frigg: This is why if someone gives me an important number, I write it down on a piece of paper and swallow it. That way I'll have it forever. Sure, when I d... more »
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