On Feb 17, 2006, at 5:10 AM, Jay Wooten wrote:
Me and everyone in my office, and I would say a majority of
customers who purchase new Macs from us (about 150 so far this
year) use it all the time.
We have approx 5000 customers in our database from the last 5 years
running OS X an I would say probably 80% use address book. The
others use Entourage.
I am curious, do you have all 5000 customers in your AddressBook
database?
Well this has been an interesting poll.
I personally only use AddressBook for iChat, and that was only
because iChat forces you to do so. Because of my limited use, I
decided to get opinions with this poll.
Why?
Well I want to develop a cross-platform application which uses
address book style contacts, but I was concerned about two things:
security and the Microsoft Windows version. Because of the security
issue, I wanted to find out how "users" would react to using the
AddressBook as the back-end database for the contacts.
And I have to admit, the responses surprised me -- there appears to
be quite a love-hate reaction to the AddressBook.
Going into this poll, I was expecting to write a private back-end and
allow import/export through AddressBook on the Macintosh. Now, I
think that I am going to change my plan a bit and offer full
AddressBook integration, but also offer a separate SQLite in-app
solution (which I need to develop anyways for the Windows version).
That way Macintosh users decide which format would fit their needs/
style best.
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