Re: Google Calendar Caldav support dropped?

On 3/15/2013 5:19 AM, Peter Lairo wrote:
> On Do. 14.03.2013 11:41, Virgo Pärna wrote:
>>     For a some time it's been recommended to use CalDAV for Google
>> Calendar. But in the light of
>> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cleaning.html
>> it seems, that Google is closing CalDAV access.
>
> One thing that needs mentioning is that if the Lightning developers had
> made it easier to set up lightning with a Google CalDAV calendar, then
> Google would have many more users and would thus have been much less
> likely to abandon CalDAV. so I put part of the blame on the Lightning
> developers.

This is a totally ridiculous statement. Google doesn't WANT people to 
use third party applications, they want everything to stay in their 
ecosystem so they can get ad revenue: that's what's to blame.

Now, I don't necessarily think it's a bad idea, but it would be nice to 
identify some of the common calendar services people use and provide 
easy ways to make accounts; actually it'd be nice if, when creating a 
Gmail account in Thunderbird it would just prompt me "Do you always want 
to sync your contacts and calendar?". That's certainly not a simple 
thing to do, however.

>>     Does that mean, that now Provider for Google Calendar should be used
>> instead?
>
> I've always dreaded the idea of needing an add-on for an add-on. Plus,
> the add-on for the add-on only uses iCal, which is like using POP3 when
> you could be using IMAP.

I don't think that's a good analogy, POP3 is technically very deficient 
to IMAP. I do not believe the same is try for using the Provider for 
Google Calendar vs. CalDAV (i.e. they support the same feature set, just 
different transfer mechanisms).

--Patrick