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

[Jim Karpen]

This was exactly my experience--and exactly the point I made in my review
for Pocket PC magazine.

I really like the stability of Missing Sync compared to PocketMac. And I
especially like its ability to mount on the desktop.

But, as noted, PocketMac has more features. Also, syncing is faster.

Jim 

> Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 17:01:22 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Joaquin Menchaca <darknerd2k at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [missing-sync-pocketpc-talk] Re: Missing Sync vs Pocketmac
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> 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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