[missing-sync-pocketpc-talk] Re: Missing Sync vs Pocketmac

[Joaquin Menchaca]

Hi.

I hope it is ok to talk about competitive product.  I
can give you some limited feedback, but I am saving
much later for a more comprehensive review of both
products.  I will let everyone know when/where the
review is published.

I have to maintain unbias, so I can't say which is
better, only in that they are different.

If you would like, I would be curious to help you
diagnose your problem, and see if we can find the
nature of the problem.  

About PocketMac.  The software launches a visible
background program to handle sychronization, in
addition to the PocketMac iSync plug-in.  This
background application, then launches several other
visible background applications, one per different
type of synchronization.  The software does not seem 
stable, as I can find several ways to crash the
various components.  Once you know where the land
mines our, you can avoid them and get decent
functionality, even more so than MissingSync, i.e.
Entourage support, notes support, etc.

Given the visibility of the crashes and other
"features", the software does have a beta quality
feel.    Even the documentation on the gold master,
states that it is beta.  I don't know if they'll offer
free upgrades to future stable versions or not, and so
far they haven't been responsive on the several bugs
that I reported and sent in their direction.  In
constrast MissingSync folks, even fixed some of the
bugs in a surprising rapid turnaround.
 
-- joaquin

> work, iCal at home and an iPaq to go, ranging from
> incorrect times for 
> meetings created in a different time zone, all my
> iCal / Address Book 
> categories being messed up, a lot of duplication and
> loss of events, 
> same events getting duplicated across the different
> machines, 
> practically all my iCal events not showing up on
> Outlook, all my 
> contact information getting jumbled up so my
> contacts end up with other 
> people's phone numbers etc. Not to mention things
> like  like 2-3 
> bluetoothToTTY processes showing up on my ps list,
> copy to the webdav 
> mount taking an age to close files etc - I'd hardly
> call it post-beta. 
> All this stuff happens like russian rulette, so
> writing proper bug 
> reports are damn hard as well. The most
> disappointing fact is that I 
> couldn't find out these 'limitations' by using a
> demo, and spending the 
> money to register Missing Sync was rather a gamble,
> on which I think I 
> have lost out.
> Before I shell out another $30 or so for more grief,
> I'd like to know 
> if there are any 'switchers' to PocketMac 3.0 for a
> better experience. 
> I do know that PocketMac also seemed pretty pathetic
> in the 2.0 stage; 
> if PocketMac 3.3 is similarly beta-quality, I might
> as well not bother. 
> I cannot however simply take the word of naive happy
> customers on 
> VersionTracker...
> Yours,
> Andy Park



	
		
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