Re: Datebk6 and iPhone issue

Please take a look at "Pocket Informant" for the  iPhone and iPod. It comes as close as I have ever seen to being as good as Datebook.
Your friend, Jim Brown


From: Marcia Sue Clever, MD 
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 5:17 PM
To: [email protected] ; [email protected] 
Subject: Re: [pdbk] Datebk6 and iPhone issue


  
Thanks Larry....and my bet is many of those Jail Broken iPhones would LOVE a usable calendar. I have a gently used iPhone 3G that I would definitely jailbreak to get the datebk6 calendar function. I would be able to, at the minimum, use it as my primary scheduling calendar and back it up via wifi to my mac. If I wanted I could use the phone or not...depending on my wealth! I really think there is a market out there that pimlico is missing.

LeStressMD

Marcia Sue Clever, MD
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From: Larry Finch <[email protected]>
To: pimlicodatebk <[email protected]>
Sent: Wed, Aug 18, 2010 1:52 pm
Subject: Re: [pdbk] Datebk6 and iPhone issue

Bert,

I saw an estimate that 25% of iPhones are jailbroken. that's over 20
million. More devices than Palm ever sold.

best,
Larry

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Bert Latamore <bertlatamore-/[email protected]> wrote:
> Another issue is that only a small percentage of the owners of iPhones (or any
> device) would be willing to "jailbreak" their device. It is not just the initial
> process -- after that Apple will not support it, you will not be able to update
> it (or more properly, updating will become very complicated), etc. For most
> people it is at the least not worth the effort. So the market for such a version
> of Pimlical would only be a fraction of the total iPhone market.
>
>
> For instance, I would not be interested in buying an iPhone or iPod Touch to
> jailbreak it to run Pimlical. Which means I wouldn't buy an iPhone at all.
>
> Bert Latamore
> Mobile Computing Blogger at http://theinfoboom.com/profile/siliconanglewikibon
> Associate Editor "The Seybold Report"
> Freelance Writer, Editor and Book Doctor
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> ________________________________
> From: Larry Finch <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Wed, August 18, 2010 3:15:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [pdbk] Datebk6 and iPhone issue
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Marcia Sue Clever, MD
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Larry,
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the explanation. You wrote:
>>
>>
>> So Pimlico is focusing on mobile platforms that support Java, which
>> include Android, Blackberry, Symbian, and possibly the Palm Pre
>> (although DateBk6 runs on the Pre already under Motion Apps Classic).
>> Interestingly, Java IS supported on jailbroken iPhones. I don't know
>> if CESD is considering that or not. If he is I would jailbreak my
>> phone.
>>
>>
>>
>> My question is....if I did a Jail Break of my old iPhone 3G or an old iPhone
>>3GS, how would I install datebk6 on it for use? Also, I use all Macs...without
>>PimliCal for Mac, would I be backing up to the old Palm Desktop software? Or
>>would I end up with nowhere to back up to? Are you a programmer?
>
> I'm a programmer. And a JB phone is not sufficient in itself. While
> 90% of the Pimlical (not DateBk6) is platform independent, the user
> interface must be customized for each platform, as well as the
> database (Pimlical uses MS Access database on Windows; it would need a
> different database on each platform). So the only way you could get
> Pimlical for a jailbroken iPhone would be for CESD to write a version
> for the Java runtime available for JB iPhones. If he did that he could
> sell it through the Cydia store (http://cydia.saurik.com/) or other
> venues. Or direct.
>
> best,
> Larry
>
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> Larry Finch
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