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Originally Posted by TadW
The breakdown is kinda ironic, if you consider that Amazon is also trying to make some bucks through selling its "highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure" to third parties.
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Ah, irony... complication... thy name is Computer.
Another site I frequent has unfortunately fallen into a similar hole: Radioio.com made the effort to update their internet radio systems, apparently sure enough about their new system to essentially cannibalize the old system to accomplish it. Guess what? When they hit the switch, it didn't work. And now they're still scrambling to fix unexpected problems and get their system online.
Too often there are simply too many variables, between hardware, software, web, rules, legalities, etc, to take absolutely everything into account. It's happened to me, too. I'm sure Mobi is working as fast as they can, between bouts of kicking themselves.