Hi Boris, Thanks for the thoughtful post. We studied the question of OTA syncing intensely over a period of a few months and came to the conclusion that it's not feasible for mere mortals (i.e. not Apple and not Google) to do iOS OTA syncing commercially. The reasons are both technical and fiscal.
Technical because: a) Until iOS 4 Apple doesn't allow apps to run in the background. b) Even with iOS 4 there are limits to what apps can do in the background. c) Apps can't change calendar data (this might have changed with iOS 4; I'm not sure). That leaves only one technical avenue for non-Apple devs to sync the iOS, and that's ActiveSync which brings us to the big fiscal issue: Commercial ActiveSync licenses are expensive. Microsoft doesn't publish licensing details, but we eventually concluded that the cost was beyond our means. I think for this to become a possibility Apple will have to open the Apple Sync Services API in iOS to developers. Maybe that's in the works, who knows... Thanks -- Larry Hendricks [email protected] http://spanningsync.com On Jun 6, 9:47 am, Boris <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have happily been using Spanning Sync for a while but I am not > frustrated with the fact that because has to run on my computer its > field of action is limited. It is able to give me almost real time > synchronisation between my Mac and the Google services, but my iPhone > and iPad are lacking behind: if I had a contact in gmail it will only > go to my iPhone when Spanning Sync has synchronized it from my Mac and > then uploaded it to MobileMe. None only this has a lot of machines in > the middle, but also it is not working if my computer is turned off. > > What I would very much like to see is an online app on the Google Apps > marketplace which would automatically synchronize my Google and > MobileMe contacts and calendars without the need to run any software > on my computer (ie this would also work when my computer is turned > off). Basically that you be a spanning sync running on Google's > servers which would wake up regularly and keep my Google and MobileMe > data in sync without any intervention form me. > > That way my Mac/iPhone/iPad can just subscribe to MobileMe and they > will automatically get all the data from Google (and I don't have > anything to install on either device). > > Is it an idea Spanning Sync would consider as a future product > evolution? (I think it would be a good differentiator compared to the > many synchronizign options available today) > Do you know if there is some kind of API for Mobile me data which > would make this feasible? > > Thanks a lot, > Boris -- 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.
