The One Feature That Would Make Me Buy an iPhone
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I love my Pearl. Best phone I’ve ever had. But syncing the calendar and contacts to my Mac is a pain - I can’t use Bluetooth to do it (and I’ve never really understood why - is it because RIM cripples it at Rogers’ request?), which means using a cable, of all things. What is this, the middle ages? But more importantly, if I want to allow an admin to work on my calendar or contacts and have that sync to my phone in the field, it’s not possible without spending serious $. This is a no-brainer if you spend the bucks on an enterprise level installation, but that’s not me, and that shouldn’t be the Pearl. I assume this is the way RIM wants things, but this seems to me to be a market ripe for disruption. Apple could solve all of this. Use the generally moribund and overpriced .Mac service to sync calendar and address book data to the Web and then wirelessly to an iPhone - that would be a neat trick. I’d pay for that, and others would too, I bet.
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I really expected the mobile calendar app to sync to online iCal feeds. This is an industry standard that Apple otherwise supports a lot anyway, OS X server, iCal (the application) etc all support it. Google Calendars supports it also, Upcoming etc.
It doesn’t though, who knows why. This is a huge deal to me also. I basically don’t use the calendar app because of this, relying on google mobile calendar instead.
It seems odd, but you are the first person I have seen talking about it, I would think it would be a big obvious deal for lots of people also.
I don’t get why people aren’t pushing this, Judson - it seems like such a no-brainer to me. And what a great way to eat RIM’s lunch.
Looks like google and an open platform won out over Apple…
Yep - pretty nifty.