[missing-sync-hiptop-talk] May 9th, What's The Status?

[Gregory Seidman]

On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 10:58:34AM -0700, Steven Frank wrote:
} >Does anyone know why missing sync has to use t-mobile at all?  I mean 
} >we all have a USB cable for this device, is it totally impossible to 
} >just send the data straight to the sidekick and then the sidekick will 
} >back it up online automatcially like it always does.  If anyone can 
} >answer this it would be greatly appreciated
} 
} Unfortunately, it's not possible.  The USB interface is not exposed to 
} third-party developers and the only support for it built into the OS 
} proper is to restore the flash ROM in case it gets corrupted somehow.

While M/S can't do anything about that problem, it is pretty clear that
Danger can. I don't know what kind of contract M/S and Danger have, if
any, but I would hope that they have some sort of leverage to push
Danger into providing synchronization support on their end one way or
another.

On the other hand, there are political realities. While T-Mobile isn't
the biggest provider out there, it's pretty big and it's the only one on
the East coast that supports the Hiptop. Danger has to be careful not to
piss them off. Doing an end-run around T-Mobile's billing plan is
entirely too likely to piss them off. I'm sure the folks at Danger want
to give us synchronization capabilities months ago, and are happy to
have a third-party developer taking care of it.

} Steven
--Greg