[missing-sync-pocketpc-talk] Missing Sync vs Pocketmac, objective opinions?

Andy Park andy_park at nospammail.net
Thu May 13 01:25:40 PDT 2004


Hi,
Could anyone who has tried recent versions of both software please post 
some opinions on what is better? My experience with Missing Sync has 
been fairly grim, with all sorts or problems trying to sync Outlook at 
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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