Alec Flett wrote: > So for those of you (the more power users) actively using devices: How > do you currently "sync" - a cable or bluetooth to a PC? Do "most" > devices out there have WiFi? Do they go through cell providers and just > talk to a server over IP?
Cable. But my device is a 4 year old Samsung Palm+phone combo. (I have been in the market for a new device for over a year but I haven't found one that meets my requirements yet. Anyway, my next device most likely will be able to sync over the network.) > My take is that we shouldn't do any device-specific work - i.e. writing > any software that is actually running on devices themselves, because > that's a huge undertaking... but perhaps there are some windows, mac and > linux-specific ways to just implement a "conduit" (if that's what > they're still called) to make devices talk to chandler and/or cosmo? > Then we could at least go after the biggest market (Windows) for now and > see how people like it? But this is all just based on me making > assumptions about how devices are talking to things these days. Agreed, I certainly don't think we should write software to run on any device (except Chandler itself in the year 2015;). That's why I think looking into for example SyncML would make sense. If we can export/import using that, then there should be some third party tool that actually can get the data into and out of your device. In similar vein the platform specific "master conduit" or whatever they should be called makes sense. -- Heikki Toivonen
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