Lisa Dusseault wrote: > What do people think about using a client/server protocol to get > calendar data to the Palm/mobile device? > - It's the only usable approach for email -- I know people who love > their IMAP or POP clients for treo or Palm, and I don't think PC synch > is even an option here
I don't care about email on my mobile device. > - Contacts are feasible as a PC synch approach because contacts data is > relatively static Yeah, would be nice, but not a killer for me. > - Calendaring is somewhere between the volatility of email and > stability of contacts, but... in a world where more people are moving > their calendar data to a server, isn't PC synch going to feel awfully > clumsy? Calendaring is really what is the deal breaker for me. My PDA alerts me to meetings I need to attend, when I need to leave work to catch train etc. This is the most important feature of a PIM to me at the moment. Having that data on my computer is not helping me since I don't have the computer on and with me all the time. > I know I'm showing my biases here, but even trying to discount those, I > still think this is the future for mobile calendaring. I agree that most if not all mobile devices a couple of years from now will be networked, and therefore client/server would be fine in the future. However, I think the current market and 0.7-0.8 timeframe at least would still catch a bigger set of devices and users by going the traditional route. And I think a lot of the work that would be needed for the "dongle sync" mode could be reused for the network case. -- Heikki Toivonen
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