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| | End of contract... So i guess this would be a good enough reason to be able to exit yuor long term contract because the carrier FAILED it's ToS of the contract.
1) A Week+ of no service
2) Loss of data
3) "Are you smarter then a 5th grader" level of data backup schedule in place means they were negligent with customers property.
I'm sure a class action suit can get the attorney's very rich on this slam dunk case as well as get people their money back for the time+money they spent on the service since the contract began.
I've never liked T-Mobile, tried them for one year in 2005 and i realized while they were cheaper then AT&T... i was just getting what i paid for (and often times less) | |
|   ptrowskiGot Helix?Premium
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| Re: End of contract... said by Mang :
So i guess this would be a good enough reason to be able to exit yuor long term contract because the carrier FAILED it's ToS of the contract.
1) A Week+ of no service
2) Loss of data
3) "Are you smarter then a 5th grader" level of data backup schedule in place means they were negligent with customers property.
I'm sure a class action suit can get the attorney's very rich on this slam dunk case as well as get people their money back for the time+money they spent on the service since the contract began.
I've never liked T-Mobile, tried them for one year in 2005 and i realized while they were cheaper then AT&T... i was just getting what i paid for (and often times less)
Can you pull up the ToS that shows a failure on your points? I doubt it.
1. Week of no service, they got a month. A cell contract doesn't guarantee uptime.
2. I would have to see if the contract implies that T-Mobile automatically backs up your data. I doubt it does.
3. See number 2.
In reality, although it sucks, backing up your phone at home is an easy thing to do.
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Canada | Re: End of contract... For God's sake, with cheap flash memory, who the hell needs cloud computing with a mobile phone? | |
| | | patcat88
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kudos:1 | Re: End of contract... said by ReformCRTC:For God's sake, with cheap flash memory, who the hell needs cloud computing with a mobile phone? Sidekick is based on older technology, where CPU intensive tasks were offloaded to a "gateway" server since portable devices had poor battery and slow CPUs and low amounts of RAM. The web browser, AIM, and email offload tasks to servers that live at Danger/your cell carrier. Not sure how the store/DRM works exactly on the phone, but because its a complete non-open "platform" calls to cellular carrier servers or danger's servers can only cause GUI lag. | |
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| xirianPremium
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Beacon, NY
kudos:1 | said by ptrowski:2. I would have to see if the contract implies that T-Mobile automatically backs up your data. I doubt it does. The sidekick deletes all your data as soon as you reboot the phone and redownloads it. without the server its nothing. So I would think that selling a phone that was designed so stupidly, tmobile should share in the responsibility of backing up your data, since you can't. | |
| | | | said by ptrowski:said by Mang :
So i guess this would be a good enough reason to be able to exit yuor long term contract because the carrier FAILED it's ToS of the contract.
1) A Week+ of no service
2) Loss of data
3) "Are you smarter then a 5th grader" level of data backup schedule in place means they were negligent with customers property.
I'm sure a class action suit can get the attorney's very rich on this slam dunk case as well as get people their money back for the time+money they spent on the service since the contract began.
I've never liked T-Mobile, tried them for one year in 2005 and i realized while they were cheaper then AT&T... i was just getting what i paid for (and often times less)
Can you pull up the ToS that shows a failure on your points? I doubt it. 1. Week of no service, they got a month. A cell contract doesn't guarantee uptime. 2. I would have to see if the contract implies that T-Mobile automatically backs up your data. I doubt it does. 3. See number 2. In reality, although it sucks, backing up your phone at home is an easy thing to do. TOS means nothing, and Apple has proven that. Let's say to humor you that it isn't stated in the TOS, it is implied that the carrier will have some sort of responsibility over the user's data since the user's data is primarily store on a server. If the primary storage was on the device in non-volatile memory, we wouldn't even have this discussion (which is how it should have been).
Let's take a look from another perspective - you probably have webhosting from someone right? And lets say tomorrow morning you wake up and everything is gone - files, DB information...everything. And the webhoster said that the main HD crashed and he had no backups and oh well do your data. I would think that since the webhoster has your data that he be required to take some sort of steps to ensure your data is safe. Even though many hosters say they many not back up your data, would you at least assume that he would have some sort of backup plan in case something happens?
I am a webhost myself, and I take other people's data EXTREMELY SERIOUSLY, to the point where I backup nightly to another disk AND I NEVER delete ANY backups. In fact I have had to purchase other drives to store the backups on, and I have no problem pulling a backup from a given day to give to a user.
Or another example would be the geek squad. What if, and it has happened, you hand over your computer to them and they f up the HD in the process of whatever they were doing. I feel that they would be liable for whatever it costs to get your data back - even if you signed a wavier. Unless of course, they can prove that they took steps to ensure that the worst wouldn't happen. | |
| | | ptrowskiGot Helix?Premium
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kudos:4 | Re: End of contract... Well the good thing is that it looks like they are letting people cancel without a penalty so it is a painful win for Sidekick users. | |
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