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 Originally Posted by Stroven Taulrok
The sidekick didn't use the actual cloud, it used a single set of servers tied to those devices alone, the cloud is a redundancy server system built for almost any MID, so when one server fails, there are several others to pick up the slack.
Yes that. The Sidekick system is in no way "the cloud", it is a single provider system with a single point of failure.
My contacts are currently stored with Google primarily. I have it set up to sync to Yahoo!, and stored on my phone. My primary calendar is Google, set to sync several times a day with my local Outlook, and from there my company's Exchange server, and on my phone. My primary email is a Gmail account, which is archived locally once a week. I have multiple points of backup, which is what the cloud is designed to do. If Google were to disappear tomorrow, I still have all my data.
I would be curious to know why a server crash and data loss would "sync" back to the phone and delete the info there, since those records were not marked as deleted, which is the only way it should remove anything from the sync partners. It sounds like some programmers were just lazy.
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