on 7/17/02 4:25 PM, jud spencer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm on vacation, so consider me not a Microsoft employee for the next two > paragraphs. iSync makes sense to me if it is an open architecture. If it > truly is only for Apple applications, that's truly a shame, that tells me > that Apple is much more interested in their application business than they > are in the platform business. FWIW: with the new Palm Conduit we shipped a > generic Entourage Sync engine. You will see other products using it in the > near future. Probably before Apple ships iSync. It lets anything transfer > data into and out of Entourage's Contacts, Calendar, Tasks, and Notes > modules.
Oh I agree it's dodgy, and low down thing to do since MS has been such a fervent supporter recently, but I think they are just trying to fill a non-MS need for those who don't want MS products. And there are still alot out there. Heck I know a lot of PC users who refuse to use outlook and IE due to constant security/snooping issues. 3 years ago I refused to even use IE, now I have the newest version always and have office vX and use it daily and freely admit my unabshed love for it,at the same time I have friends who reel at the very thought. Those people aren't going to MS no matter what, not even if it was free, and IE is. We'll all chose free when we can, which is only gonna shoot apple in the foot later when MS is tired of developing apps for sale that apple later makes for free. The this whole "you need to support us too" cat fight will start all over. But if you don�t have IE and don�t much like the palm desktop, and like the sleek user at ease apple seems to build in, there's no doubt those people are gonna use the new applications. I can't imagine not using iphoto, imovie and itunes now, but I already have a solution for my mail and scheduling needs - entourage. Hell I treid to erase mail off my system and couldn't, apple even told me to I couldn't. I don�t much like the idea I can't delete the damned thing, at least it's small. I also don�t want 6 apps if one will do it, and one does, entourage. Now, if Mail syncs my visor, well.... I might just toy with the idea. I did my first sync and it seemed to work despite not really supposed to, but who knows what will change. And things do change. jen =========== Jen Funk Segrest very big Design http://www.verybigdesign.com -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
