September 28, 2002
iSync I can finally see something.
Cutting it as close to their pre-announced deadline as per usual, Apple has finally made iSync available in public beta form.
There’s nothing specifically technical regarding the way iSync operates amidst the current batch of support documents, but I’m hoping that it will be open enough to support third-party plug-ins like iTunes does. The fact that iSync requires a .Mac account is gratuitously self-serving (no pun intended) on Apple’s part, but not completely unexpected. They need to hang on to as many paying customers as possible. Though, the sooner some young buck can find a way to work around it, the better.
And you know me … I’d like Newton synchronization as well. We might be able to accomplish this in a hackneyed manner by exporting data in the standard vCard and vCalendar formats and then script the combination of Palm Desktop and iSync to synchronize with everything else. Yes, it looks messy on the surface (and probably underneath as well), but it could be a very satisfying experiment.
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