Comments on: Google Sync… Friend and Foe? [Updated x3] http://frankleng.me/2010/03/03/google-sync-friend-and-foe/ random thoughts and projects Wed, 15 May 2013 03:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: frankleng http://frankleng.me/2010/03/03/google-sync-friend-and-foe/comment-page-1/#comment-31 frankleng Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:11:22 +0000 http://frankleng.me/?p=178#comment-31 Sync appears to be back… but push email is experiencing long delays. At least all my contacts and calendar events are back.

This Sync downtime was very strange. The server m.google.com was still up… people could still login… but all its data were gone. That's why the iPhone synced up by wiping everything out. So I think Google should have just switched off the server altogether. That way the data on the phone could at least be intact during downtime.

@Mitchell there were so many ppl on the Google support forum linking the recently Android lawsuit to this massive downtime yesterday. lol
While it is true that Android and Blackberries don't use the ActiveSync protocol. However, that still doesn't explain why only Exchange users' data were wiped out.

]]> By: Dylan Blanchard http://frankleng.me/2010/03/03/google-sync-friend-and-foe/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Dylan Blanchard Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:28:43 +0000 http://frankleng.me/?p=178#comment-30 I've been noticing that my push email via sync has been really slow as of late (last week or more).. to the point that it won't download new emails for my push account until I'm on wifi… I was pawning it off on my cell phone connection, but hopefully it has something to do with this and it can all be rectified once they get it down. I'm kind of happy I don't sync my contacts with it though… I don't reckon I'd feel too pleasant about losing everything, even if it was only temporary.

]]> By: Mitchell McKenna http://frankleng.me/2010/03/03/google-sync-friend-and-foe/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Mitchell McKenna Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:22:54 +0000 http://frankleng.me/?p=178#comment-29 Probably wouldn't of even known about this huge Google Sync issue happening today if I hadn't seen your tweets. Pretty hard to believe no one thought “hey, we should test out what happens if the Google sync service isn't available” before they released this thing. I also find it interesting that it basically only happened to iPhone users (not Android/BlackBerry) after all the arguing Apple & Google have been having lately (eg. Steve Jobs: “this don't-be-evil crap is bullsh*t!”)

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