Thanks, Don, you did a far better job of articulating my point.
On Sunday 31 May 2009 09:16:25 Don Ferguson wrote: > Craig, > > > > You seem to know the most about this. Is it definitively true that the Pre > is going to back up information over the air to Palm's servers whether the > user wants it or not? And/or that, if the user can stop that in full or in > part, the user will have no alternative way to backup/sync anywhere else? > That might well be a showstopper for me, and I can only imagine the > difficulties in the legal, medical, human resources and educational > communities with a device that backs up to an uncertified, unknown quantity > such as a manufacturer's server. I'm sure Palm runs wonderful servers, but > that's not the point. Imagine if Windows required that it all such > information be backed up to Microsoft servers, or MacOS to Apple's. There > would be a revolt! I myself went through hours of cleanup of my address > book before allowing my Treo, then Centro then Blackberry to sync address > book and calendar information with my hosted Exchange service. > > > > Primary data elements of concern here would be calendar, contacts, tasks > and notes - and perhaps SMS/MMS messages. OH, and pictures, voice > recordings, shopping lists, and maybe more I haven't thought of. The > quasi-public nature of email is already a given, but not those others. > > > > Can you further enlighten us? I will be hesitant to activate the thing > when I buy it in 6 DAYS unless I understand this better! > > > > Cheers, > > Don > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > ladycat_32244 > Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 6:21 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Treo] Palm Pre - Will it have option to mark contacts as > "private" > > I would feel much more comfortable having ability to only back up those > private contacts to my own personal computer and not be on anyone's > servers. There is just so much identity theft out there now. Do you think > there will be any third-party applications that will address this problem? > Frankly, I have more problems with the info being on Google servers than > with Palm, but would rather info not be on either one. Then I have a > problem because if something happens to the Pre device and I am unable to > retrieve that info, I'm screwed. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
