Skip to main content  Why Android and iPhone won't go down like
BlackBerry  John D. Sutter, CNN BlackBerrys around the world
could not get messages this week; that wouldn't happen to iPhone
or Android, experts say.   • Experts: iPhones and Android
devices will not see a global messaging crash   • BlackBerry
filters messages through its own servers; Apple and Google don't
• BlackBerry's middle-man approach to messaging is what crashed
this week   • Millions of BlackBerry users were without e-mail
service for more than three days  (CNN) -- Here's a little
secret BlackBerry doesn't want you to know:  It would be
technically impossible for all Android phones or iPhones to
experience a global four-day outage like the one BlackBerry saw
this week, according to mobile communications experts.  Why? The
answer is in the technical details of how Research in Motion --
the company that makes BlackBerry smartphones, with their click-
clacking keyboards and tie-wearing owners -- handles e-mails and
text messages.  Here's