Hi Larry, Thanks for your response. In my basic testing, I was able to get two way syncing of multiple calendars with the out of the box Snow Leopard solution.
These are the advantages you wrote about: > * Fully editable calendars on the iPhone/iPod Touch If I have my iPod Touch set to sync with google, then the calendar is fully editable (even with the out of the box Snow Leopard solution between Mac and Google) > * Calendars sync with Mobile Me -- this is crucial if you use Mobile Me to > sync the iPhone over-the-air Don't have Mobile Me, so I can't talk about this one. > * Supports read-only Google calendars I thought this could be done with CalDav? > * Integration with existing calendars in iCal I think the out of the box solution with Snow Leopard supports this, but I'd have to double check > * Smarter alarm syncing -- e.g. you'll get two emails from an email alarm > with Apple's system; only one with ours I don't use e-mail alarms, so I can't comment. > * One-way syncing Isn't this the same as your point above, "Supports read-only Google calendars" > * Free tech support Always a good thing! I wish Apple did release some documentation on this feature; it puts you and the rest of us in a position where we have to guess, instead of them just laying out how it works. Larry, you didn't make any comments regarding the built in contact sync with Snow Leopard. Have you had the chance to test it, and how is Spanning Sync's contact sync better than the Snow Leopard solution? I'm a happy user of Spanning Sync, and I can appreciate what a terrible position Apple is putting some of its developers in. The uncertainty of when features will be added (plus arbitrary iPhone app rejections) must give Apple developers a great deal of anxiety. I'm sorry you have to go through this. Thanks, Ara On Sep 2, 12:13 am, Larry Hendricks <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > We were hoping that Apple would publish some documentation on this new > feature that we could point to, but it doesn't look like they're going > to. From what we can tell, the iCal/Google Calendar syncing support in > Snow Leopard is nearly identical to what it was in Leopard. The main > difference seems to be that they've added a "Google" account type to > the preferences window rather than making the user select "CalDAV" and > then entering the impossible-to-guess server address (as documented > athttp://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=993...). > > It's still CalDAV-based, the CalDAV calendars are still read-only on > the iPhone, they don't sync at all with MobileMe, and each calendar > still occupies its own group in iCal which many people find > cluttering. > > (To be clear, I'm talking about the "Google" item in iCal's accounts > window and not Exchange support. Exchange support, which is completely > new in Snow Leopard, requires an Exchange server.) > > So I'd say the advantages of Spanning Sync continue to be: > > * Fully editable calendars on the iPhone/iPod Touch > * Calendars sync with Mobile Me -- this is crucial if you use Mobile > Me to sync the iPhone over-the-air > * Supports read-only Google calendars > * Integration with existing calendars in iCal > * Smarter alarm syncing -- e.g. you'll get two emails from an email > alarm with Apple's system; only one with ours > * One-way syncing > * Free tech support > > You can read more about the advantages of Spanning Sync over Apple's > CalDAV syncing in these two blog posts: > > http://blog.spanningsync.com/2008/12/how-does-google-caldav-compare-t...http://blog.spanningsync.com/2008/12/users-favor-spanning-sync-over-g... > > Thanks > -- > Larry Hendricks > [email protected]http://spanningsync.com > > On Sep 1, 7:34 pm, Elie <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Maybe they are looking into seeing the pros and cons of Snow Leopard > > sync. > > > On Sep 1, 10:18 pm, DYP <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > the fact that noone from SpanningSync is responding to these questions > > > is making me think that there's a good chance that Snow Leopard has > > > indeed made Spanningsync obsolete. > > > > On Sep 1, 11:51 am, mapin0518 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I'm wondering the same... does Spanning Sync offer any advantage over > > > > the built-in Snow Leopard sync? > > > > > I hope so because I have a lifetime license to Spanning Sync :) > > > > > But one less clutter on my menu bar using up resources is always > > > > welcome... > > > > > On Aug 28, 7:08 pm, Ara <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > I found that in Snow Leopard's Address Book, there is an option to > > > > > synchronize with google under Preferences -> Accounts. With iCal, you > > > > > can add an account under Preferences -> Accounts -> + -> Account Type > > > > > "Google". Both of these seem to have good, 2 way synchronization. > > > > > I'm not trying to drop a bomb on Spanning Sync, but can you tell me > > > > > specifically why Spanning Sync is better than the built in Snow > > > > > Leopard options? Or has the need for Spanning Sync come to an end > > > > > with Snow Leopard? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Spanning Sync" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spanningsync?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
