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While I feel that saying that massive systems fail in unusual ways is accurate, I also am concerned that RIM may not have the same technical prowess as a google
by serverascode 15y ago
While I feel that saying that massive systems fail in unusual ways is accurate, I also am concerned that RIM may not have the same technical prowess as a google or even amazon and yet in a way they are competing at that scale.
Further, I guess pulling their users email into their system makes business sense for them, but that has always struck me as an unusual technical choice.
- randomdata 15y agoFurther, I guess pulling their users email into their system makes business sense for them, but that has always struck me as an unusual technical choice. I always thought it was so they could provide mail using a protocol that was optimized for battery life. Constantly polling a mail provider for updates is not exactly a good use of power. They couldn't really expect everyone who runs a mail server to install the necessary infrastructure to support the devices, so the next best thing is to have computers operated by RIM attached to power mains worry about collecting the email and then notify the wireless device only when there are changes. Apple uses the same basic model for their push services.
- wmf 15y agoMany customers already have BES installed. Why doesn't the phone talk to the BES directly? What value is RIM's centralized data center adding?