Comments on: T-Mobile Learns Its Mobile Data Storage Lesson http://storefrontbacktalk.com/securityfraud/t-mobile-learns-its-mobile-data-storage-lesson/ Techniques, Tools and Tirades about Retail Technology and E-Commerce Sun, 20 May 2012 01:49:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: A reader http://storefrontbacktalk.com/securityfraud/t-mobile-learns-its-mobile-data-storage-lesson/comment-page-1/#comment-64065 A reader Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:04:00 +0000 http://www.storefrontbacktalk.com/?p=4067#comment-64065 And how many laptop owners show up at the Geek Squad's door every single day demanding "You get my data back right now!!!" even though they shattered their machine on a concrete floor, destroying the hard drive? How many home computer owners have lost their digital picture collections because they have never backed up a thing? I suspect the numbers of people who have destroyed their own data due to their own ineptitude still far outweigh the number of cloud customers that have lost data at the hands of an incompetent provider. End users are far and away the worst at taking care of their own data. A few widely publicized events probably aren't even statistically significant compared to the damage people do to themselves. That reminds me, I better back up my digital picture folder again. It's probably been a year. ;-) And how many laptop owners show up at the Geek Squad’s door every single day demanding “You get my data back right now!!!” even though they shattered their machine on a concrete floor, destroying the hard drive? How many home computer owners have lost their digital picture collections because they have never backed up a thing? I suspect the numbers of people who have destroyed their own data due to their own ineptitude still far outweigh the number of cloud customers that have lost data at the hands of an incompetent provider.

End users are far and away the worst at taking care of their own data. A few widely publicized events probably aren’t even statistically significant compared to the damage people do to themselves.

That reminds me, I better back up my digital picture folder again. It’s probably been a year. ;-)

]]> By: Lead Mobile http://storefrontbacktalk.com/securityfraud/t-mobile-learns-its-mobile-data-storage-lesson/comment-page-1/#comment-64062 Lead Mobile Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:31:41 +0000 http://www.storefrontbacktalk.com/?p=4067#comment-64062 Apple had a similar fate with their 'mobileme' service last year when they lauched the iPhone where users lost their emails and other information. This was publicly acknowledged by the company's CEO as a 'not ready or prime time' service and mobileme was revamped. Working wth the cloud in a mobile medium takes more than creating a virtual storage capability. One has to take into account the unique demands of a mobile user - how they interact with their device, how a 'moving' device behaves within a connecte medium, the power of devices to sustain stable communications that may start/stp several times and above all, how the data is actually transferred. Sometimes these cloud service providers tend to do stray into too much, i.e. increase storage, provid backup services and ceate a zoo of photo, video, audio, calendar apps all within the same service! If something goes wrong, the consumer will be left high and dry! because they don't have any control. After all, do you really need another calendar, photo, audio app... There are a few noteworthy smaller players innovating on the mobile phone storage and keeping their services focussed, without straying into too much. One service creates an increased capacity on your mobile phone while giving users full control over their data. Apple had a similar fate with their ‘mobileme’ service last year when they lauched the iPhone where users lost their emails and other information. This was publicly acknowledged by the company’s CEO as a ‘not ready or prime time’ service and mobileme was revamped.

Working wth the cloud in a mobile medium takes more than creating a virtual storage capability. One has to take into account the unique demands of a mobile user – how they interact with their device, how a ‘moving’ device behaves within a connecte medium, the power of devices to sustain stable communications that may start/stp several times and above all, how the data is actually transferred. Sometimes these cloud service providers tend to do stray into too much, i.e. increase storage, provid backup services and ceate a zoo of photo, video, audio, calendar apps all within the same service! If something goes wrong, the consumer will be left high and dry! because they don’t have any control. After all, do you really need another calendar, photo, audio app…

There are a few noteworthy smaller players innovating on the mobile phone storage and keeping their services focussed, without straying into too much. One service creates an increased capacity on your mobile phone while giving users full control over their data.

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