The server failure that has left thousands of Sidekicks dead in the water is still in our minds. It is such a massive failure of T-Mobile and Microsoft/ Danger that it is easy to understand why everyone is obsessed with the whole situation. The obsession with trying to understand how it happened is only going to continue, and I foresee new terms in the tech world emerging as a result.
Mark my words, it won’t be long before we start hearing statements like these in tech settings:
“My system pulled a sidekick — all my data’s gone!”
“We just got sidekicked off the server!”
“Make sure your backup data is good — you don’t want to be sidekicked in the face.”
“Yesterday my system worked fine — today it’s just a sidekick!”
Don’t be fast to judge, I feel so bad for those poor Sidekick owners who are now without all of their personal data. It is an unthinkable situation and it demonstrates the importance of keeping data backed up. Those of us who have lost a system, only to discover our backup (that had been duly maintained) was no good, know exactly how demoralizing the Sidekick issue can be. Sometimes things make so little sense you just have to joke about them to keep sane.
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