{"id":568,"date":"2009-10-12T12:08:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T12:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=568"},"modified":"2009-10-12T12:08:32","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T12:08:32","slug":"quick_hitter_re_sidekick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=568","title":{"rendered":"Quick hitter re: Sidekick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe only thing you can blame T-Mobile for is putting all their eggs in the cloud basket and letting Danger\/Microsoft keep all the device data.  They&#8217;re making up for it by allowing users to cancel their contracts without penalty &#8211; a ballsy move &#8211; and also offering discounts for people who feel like moving to a G1 &#8211; a smart move.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMeanwhile, it&#8217;s not enough that Windows Mobile 6.5 is basically Windows Moble 6.1 with extra Shinola applied &#8211; Microsoft just basically killed every Sidekick phone in America.  How is it even possible to not have a backup of that kind of thing?  Anyway, the old rules of DC are still true: don&#8217;t trust anything to a Microsoft product that you couldn&#8217;t live with being destroyed without notice.  Anybody who would rely on a cloud product from Microsoft at this point may have a legitimate mental defect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only thing you can blame T-Mobile for is putting all their eggs in the cloud basket and letting Danger\/Microsoft keep all the device data. They&#8217;re making up for it by allowing users to cancel their contracts without penalty &#8211; a ballsy move &#8211; and also offering discounts for people who feel like moving to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=568\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quick hitter re: Sidekick&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}