Re: Re: Need help understanding desktop/handheld relationship

Actually I can think of a number of reasons that Pre users might want to sync their data to their desktop as well as or instead of to the Cloud. Two in particular:

1. Your company uses Outlook or Notes calendars (between them these two account for something like 90%+ of all businesses above the very small) and you want to integrate your business schedule with your personal one on your smartphone.

2. Some day you might want to move to some other platform (it happens, and a decade from now who knows what you will be using) and you want to be able to export your PIM data in a standard format that is easily imported into that technology (even if you never use Outlook, it is a widely used de facto standard for PIM data). 

Of course Palm has never said that the Pre DOESN"T or CAN'T sync locally, just that it DOES sync to the cloud. Having both options would be ideal, actually.

Bert Latamore
Freelance Editorial Consultant




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From: Jeff Mitchell <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 3:31:44 PM
Subject: Re: [shadow-discuss] Re: Need help understanding desktop/handheld relationship


On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, shovavnik wrote:

# I'm suspending judgement. Maybe I'm just not very good at it, but in the

And more, its not like first blush has to be the last one; with 
the iPhone, Apple had a bogus web-only app model for a few months to 
perhaps buy them time or see how much reaction they got, and then brought 
out the more serious stuff. Let us hope a C/C++ and/or java (hopefully 
and, not or) model comes along. (I mean, seriously, you discount the real 
languages, and peopel suddenly cnanot port old code, or write new 
bluetooth profiles, or make numerical computation apps, or certain classes 
of games, etc and so on.) 

They'll come around I'm sure..

jeff

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