{"id":16,"date":"2007-04-20T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T10:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhirsch.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/20\/blackberry-platform-failures\/"},"modified":"2007-04-20T10:38:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T10:38:00","slug":"blackberry-platform-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/20\/blackberry-platform-failures\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackberry Platform Failures…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>So, now we had it: no Blackberry connections for “millions” of users. Thousands of appointments unconfirmed because of the inability to get this last-minute change of plan out via e-mail, millions of leading executives severely disturbed and seriously troubled as they could not actually do anything on their way to work (a wonderful little account is here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

So what was it? RIM said it related to a disobedient “new, non-critical system routine” that had to be installed (cf. NY Times<\/a>). Now, non-critical might sound soothing to an engineer. It will give every the overwhelming majority of Blackberry users, all the politicians, lawyers, marketing executives, bankers, etc the jitters: how bad will it actually be if it is critical???<\/p>\n

The outage showed the weakness of the otherwise pretty compelling hard\/software combination: it seems to contain so much hard-coded “stuff” that it entangles hardware, network and device so closely that one OEM-side error triggers outage across all<\/span> networks and all <\/span>devices, and that is not good! But then: according to Nasdaq, this “not good” is “only” worth $1.88 per share – that’s how much the shares lost on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, now we had it: no Blackberry connections for “millions” of users. Thousands of appointments unconfirmed because of the inability to get this last-minute change of plan out via e-mail, millions of leading executives severely disturbed and seriously troubled as they could not actually do anything on their way to work (a wonderful little account […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSwZv-g","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}