The release of Blackberry OS 2, claimed by the company to be their biggest update ever, lead to its servers in India crashing yesterday.
According to reports, five users tried to download the update for the Blackberry Playbook the same evening overloading its computers for several hours, and Blackberry services slowing to a crawl.
‘We didn’t think anyone would notice this update was out’, Sunil Dutt, Head of BB India said. ‘However, I took the precaution of hosting the 500MB file in my home PC, just in case. But with so much demand, my 256 Kbps connection couldn’t handle the load, and the link dropped frequently. I should have listened to my friends and taken an Airtel broadband connection instead of BSNL.' He added, 'The way Blackberry demand is going, we were planning to run the Blackberry email service globally from my computer, but I will now ensure I upgrade my internet plan before we do that’.
Praising the India chief, Thorstein Heins, Blackberry ‘s new CEO said ‘ Sunil showed great resourcefulness in overruling the advice of his marketing team. In fact, the sales guys were trying to convince our development team not to bother with all this work and just put out the original OS and claim it was a major update.’ "No one will notice", they claimed.'
A marketing executive who did not wish to be named said ‘ The Playbook was released last year, but most customers and BB employees still have no idea what it is supposed to do.’ When asked why these buyers didn’t complain, he said ‘Most of our sales were from an enterprising Mumbai reseller who stuck the Apple logo on the front and back of the device. Of course no one complains about an Apple product, however crappy it is – it just isn’t done’.
Mr. Heins responded ‘Last evening’s outstanding success, which saw almost 10% of our Playbook buyers attempt to download this update on the first day of its release shows that we still have active users of our device. While it may be true that the occasional buyer may have mistaken this for the Playstation Portable or a chopping board, we congratulate the people who actually managed to use it’.
Ex-CEOs Mike Lazardis and Jim Balsillie deferred comments, claiming the Downtown Ontario McDonald’s was unusually busy today. ‘These burgers aren’t gonna flip themselves’, Lazardis muttered, as Balsillie was spotted trying to fix a broken potato fryer. 
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