On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 12:17 AM, David K Watson <[email protected]>wrote:
> I am not going to argue any general claims, but in this case go > back and read Tom's posts when MobileMe was having all its > service problems the first times Apple tried to put in Exchange > support. Tom was at least as unhappy with Apple over that as > he was over MS's recent problems with Sidekick phone data. > > Consider also that Google has had several notable service > failures a couple of times since then, particularly with email > and search, but I don't recall Tom being nearly so critical > about that. So it is possible to argue that in this case, Tom > is harder on Apple than he is on Google. > > Some of that is the duration of the outages. The Sidekick mess was a few a week or two, Mobileme was prolonged. Google was out for what a few hours? Every one is going to have server problems but the time it takes to remedy the situation should be part of the outrage level. -- John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
