[missing-sync-pocketpc-talk] Alpha Software

Wed Aug 3 17:48:04 PDT 2005

Well said!  I'm a LONG time Windows user (anyone remember Windows  
1.0?)  and Pocket PC user (PP2 2000 anyone?), and when I bought my  
Mac mini back in April and decided to immediately jump on the Mac  
wagon, I suspected I'd have problems with my Pocket PCs and the Mac.  
I was resigned to either continuing to synchronise with my Windows  
laptop (that belong to my company) or synchronising with my Linux  
box. At the time I bought my Mac mini, I still owned a Palm device  
and bought MS for Palm and it worked perfectly. Based on that, when I  
saw that MS for WM was coming, I waited, having confidence that Mark/ 
Space would put out a decent product.

I emptied my iCals and backed up my PIMs on the handheld prior to my  
first sync (since all my data was on the handheld anyway). I then  
synchronised my empty iCal to my PDA letting it overwrite the PDA  
database, essentially emptying it as well. I then restored just the  
PIMs on my PDA, did another sync and voila! All data was in sync in  
both places.

Since then, I now routinely synchronise between my Windows laptop and  
my Mac mini with no problems and no data loss.

So the program DOES work for at least some of us. At any rate, the MS  
participants here have shown that they do listen and that they are  
aware of and trying to fix problems. And don't forget all those who  
were complaining about having to wait an extra month.

I don't know how big MS is, but I suspect they only have a handful of  
developers there, and I don't even want to think about the problems  
they must face in dealing with two large and probably not fully  
cooperative entities - MIcrosoft and Apple.

Personally, I expect that they will iron out most of the bugs, and at  
least for me, they've delivered a functioning product.

Don

On Aug 3, 2005, at 7:45 PM, William Hutchinson wrote:

> 12-24 hours is pushing it a little, especially if you realize it's  
> a huge list of problems.  MarkSpace isn't a huge company like Apple  
> that develops everything on the platform.  The Missing Sync team  
> has to work with a limited set of APIs between two platforms that  
> neither of the first party companies are willing to bridge the gap  
> for.  Just remember how much people were pushing them to release  
> the buggy version earlier and how pissed off everyone got when they  
> had to hold back the release date.  Seriously, look at the release  
> date, when I saw the announcement and looked at my calendar I  
> already expected it to have been sort of a 'panic move' because  
> they didn't want to piss off people even more about delaying it yet  
> another month.
>
> I have absolutely NO ISSUES with the software at the moment and I  
> suspect that if everyone started with a hard reset PDA and a clean  
> iCal that they wouldn't have problems either.  I doubt MarkSpace  
> had the time to think of and then simulate the strange data that  
> people have that cause the program to crash.  Really I'm not  
> surprised that the software has issues when Microsoft half-asses  
> cross-platform compatibility and documentation and Apple half-asses  
> their syncing APIs (in my opinion anyway).
>
> If you want PocketPC syncing with minimal issues, why not get every  
> Pocketmac/MissingSync user to complain to Microsoft and see if  
> they'll do anything about it.  I believe they originally promised a  
> version of ActiveSync for Mac.
>
> I can tell you, as someone who has done software development,  
> debugging software can be the most irritating thing in the world  
> and users will ALWAYS find a way to break a complex program.
>
> On Aug 3, 2005, at 7:17 PM, lists at southernohio.net wrote:
>
>
>> You definitely appear to be correct so far.  I've not had quite as  
>> many issues in terms of the computer hanging or panicing, but I am  
>> definitely seeing quite a few other problems and heard from others  
>> experiences that this is still very much beta.  It is too bad that  
>> this has been sold in the state at which it is at although we need  
>> it terribly at the moment.  I seriously wonder if I should have  
>> purchased PocketMac as I heard some reviews that it worked much  
>> better with Tiger currently than the previous release and I'm  
>> wondering if perhaps even this release.
>>
>> I am going to give MarkSpace the benefit of the doubt and bet that  
>> they are running on zero sleep every day right now in order to  
>> give us an update within the next 12-24 hours or so to resolve a  
>> huge laundry list of current issues or I would suspect that many  
>> of us will be getting refunds quite soon.  It feels like either  
>> they were trying to get one up on their competition and have an  
>> earlier release or perhaps just needed to turn some more income  
>> quickly and pushed it out the door.
>>
>> Please help us Missing Sync developers.
>>
>> -George
>>
>>
>> On Aug 3, 2005, at 7:01 PM, Corey Mclaughlin wrote:
>>
>> I am very disappointed in Missing Sync Windows Mobile software. I  
>> can not believe that somebody thought this software was at a  
>> release status. I will be writing a review of this software on my  
>> website www.mobileminds.com. Additionally, I will be asking Mark  
>> Space for a full refund.
>>
>> Since installing this software my MAC has locked up twice and had  
>> to be rebooted and I have submitted two errors reports to Mark  
>> Space via it's built-in error reporting engine.
>>
>> Corey McLaughlin
>> Mobile Minds Media
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