[missing-sync-hiptop-talk] suggestions or requests!

[Eric Ullman]

Hi Conrad,

My responses are inline, below.

On 4/20/05 2:24 PM, "Conrad Heiney" <conrad at fringehead.org> wrote:

> 1. Thanks so much for releasing this. I had given up hope.

We almost had, too! ;-)

> 2. It's odd that this is only licensed for one computer. Surely the
> requirement that it go to one sidekick account is enough to keep it
> from being abused. Without the ability to update my iSync data globally
> from more than one computer, isync becomes much less useful. If I'm on
> the road and put data in my laptop, and then later on I'm at home and I
> go to update data on the desktop, I'm SOL. This is crippling to the
> functionality of .Mac and iSync. What problem might result from letting
> customers install it on multiple boxes?

The license allows you to use the software on two Macs, with one hiptop for
each Mac OS X user.

> 2. The eight times per day limit on syncing is painful. One of the best
> features of iSync is automatic updating, but since this can only be
> done hourly, if a computer is left on all the time the automatic
> syncing has to be disabled, or it will only work 1/3 of the time. Is
> there any hope that this will change?

This is a danger/carrier-based limitation designed to allay a carrier's
concerns of heavy bandwidth usage. It is unlikely that this will change.

I hope these answers help.

Best regards,
Eric

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Eric Ullman
Director of Sales and Marketing
Mark/Space, Inc.
eullman at markspace.com