[missing-sync-pocketpc-talk] Random thoughts from a potential purchaser

[James Johnson]

Hi Jim,

	I would have to say the difference between the 2 products (poket mac 
and missing sync) is that pocketmac is more brutally put together, the 
interface is lacking, and the application has odd ways of syncing the 
pocket pc and the macintosh and interfacing with the macintosh os in 
general.  That said, the actual pocketmac program itself gave me very 
few problems when it came to using it with my smartphone.  It was 
however painfully slow, and did on occasion cause my Mac to freeze up.

	The missing sync seems to use the Mac OS X framework a bit better and 
is much more intuitive, it seems to be integrated with the Mac OS a 
better and is a whole lot faster.  Unfortunately at this point it is 
only doing about 45% of what it is supposed to do and I paid 2 times as 
much for it as I did pocket mac. The two companies should just get 
together, charge 50-60$ for there products and create a stable robust 
and error free app together. I would be more than willing to pay good 
money for something that worked out of the box without a bunch of 
support issues.

Jimmy


On Aug 3, 2005, at 8:02 AM, Jim Robertson wrote:

> I've been a Mac user since 1984. As such, I've seen two decades of 
> PC-only
> stuff that I often wished I could have access to. Only a few times 
> have I
> jumped, and that's been to purchase Virtual PC, and later to give up 
> on Palm
> (because they never acknowledged that most of us have more than one 
> address
> - we live and work in different places). Accordingly, I bought an HP 
> iPaq.
>
> I made the mistake of buying an early iteration of PocketMac, which 
> required
> me to use the terminal to enable communications with the device and 
> even
> then caused all manner of problems. I read public traffic from/to the
> company, but I don't see much from happy customers.
>
> Now it seems there's hope. I'm quite impressed by the participation of
> Mark/Space staff on this list. They're announcing when they've verified
> bugs. They're making suggestions in public.
>
> It strikes me that anyone purchasing a Windows Mobile device EXPECTING
> seamless integration with a Mac faces high probability of some
> disappointment. After all, the products involved, from both the 
> Windows and
> Mac sides, are engineered with no plans to make such communications
> possible, let alone easy.
>
> That said, I'm encouraged by what I read here, and may leap soon to a
> purchase. Before doing so, I would like to make a few specific 
> suggestions:
>
> 1. The digest email list is hard to read as threads because the 
> subjects
> that extend to more than one line add special characters at the 
> linebreak. I
> can't think of ANY other digest I subscribe to that suffers this 
> glitch.
>
> 2. The suggestion that Mark/Space offer a demo (perhaps time limited, 
> or
> number of syncs limited) is right-on. Posts stating "it didn't work 
> for me"
> might replace some of those entitled "untested crap" were such a demo
> available.
>
> Because I use Entourage on the Mac, I'll follow the email list a bit 
> longer
> before taking the plunge (unless a demo is offered). I'm particularly
> interested in synchronization of notes fields in Entourage contact 
> records
> and success/failure stories in synchronization of multi-day and 
> recurring
> appointments.
>
>
> Jim Robertson
> -- 
>
>
>
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