Comments on: RIM Blackberry Service Goes Out Again

By: Are you available tonight? » Blog Archive » How BlackBerry’s outage could have been prevented

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:53:33 +0000

[...] less than a year. Customers immediately jumped into online discussions and on blogs like here and here to find the root of the problem. The outage is believed to have been caused by the failure of one [...]

By: Judi Sohn

Judi Sohn — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:37:33 +0000

You could look at it that way. But the reality is that I’d rather fire off a quick reply or forward an email from my Blackberry and have it done with, than have to come back to my desktop and have twice as much email to process.

Yes, there are times that I’m on my Blackberry because I’m killing time that I could be doing something non-connected. But the majority of time my Blackberry is what *allows* me to have a life because I can take dead time (like when I’m sitting in my car waiting to pick my child up from school) and turn it into opportunity to clear my plate of items that would otherwise be wasting my time later.

Personally, I’d rather it be MY choice when I get that fresh air. ;-) Otherwise, I’m more buried, which is what I don’t want.

By: Richard Rinyai

Richard Rinyai — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:24:05 +0000

I understand that this was a major inconvenience (to put it lightly) to many users of the “Crackberry”. You do have to look at it this way. At least they can take a breath of fresh air for a short period of time.

Thanks,

Richard Rinyai
http://www.theprofessionalassistant.net