Originally Posted By: matthew_k

Because Google has proven then can provide the service at scale reliably, has an extremely optimized web interface, and provides activesync for email, calendar and contacts.

Read the story about how Google recovered emails from tape when an upgrade went awry. Then look at what happened when the sidekick servers crashed.


According to Microsoft all the sidekick data was recovered.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8309218.stm
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