I pray Apple has developed the ability to synch To Dos from its own applications (Mail, iCal) with the iPhone. This is a glaring hole that needs filling...

I doubt it would be a BB client itself. It is probably something they wrote themselves using their license with ActiveSync (something easy to use with some "gee whiz" features). It also wouldn't surprise me if they have written in some remote wipe and enterprise security features (to disable or delete a lost or stolen phone), along with some Office-compatible document writers, and maybe even some print drivers for networked devices. A brand new BlueTooth stack would also be a welcome addition (for full services), but it could be wishful thinking.

Have full sync of calendars both using iphone/ipod touch Apple Calendar and to do's and Even Google calendar using Busy Sync which was previewed here on MACWORLD after the show in JAN

Works great

http://www.busymac.com/

I know what Push Email is... the point I am making is what is the point of push? Are you going to sit and wait for email? You have to pick up your phone / blackberry / whatever to read it... when you pick the phone up, touch the get mail button.

Push Email is why you need multiple batteries for blackberries... they eat through them like a lawnmower through grass.

To each their own I guess.. I never understood the purpose of push email being such a big deal.

I have push email on my iPhone with a little program I wrote on our mail server. When I get an email, it sends my iPhone a text message with a link to email, I click the link in the txt message and it launches the email viewer.

I guess that's called Push via text, and I don't have to pay dingleberry a stupid monthly fee to sit and send me email.

Not to mention, I don't trust giving my passwords to Dingberry... very dirty, untrustworthy company in my opinion.

mike

I can't wait to get my hands on the SDK.

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nmpike wrote:
I could not agree more. Push mail is a useless nuisance. I can get that topless brazilian girl or the 100th remake of a joke in real time and I am allowed to pay for it? Yeah, way to go. I fail to understand why this is such a big success in the US - you barely see any of these things here, not even in enterprises. It is no safe real-time alert system like a pager (especially with constant outages), so it will never replace it for surgeons, police members etc. and it brings no single benefit except wasting batteries and costing big money. Even in Germany I can get an email flat rate for my mobile for something like 6 USD/mth, set it to pull every minute if I want to (I do not) and be done. No need to submit my passwords to anyone, no need to carry an ugly and bulky example of bad design. Most email servers today can send out SMS alerts and this functionality can even be configured (e.g. only mails from some important senders will trigger alerts, only messages flagged as "urgent" will trigger a SMS etc.) much more flexible than push mail and no monthly fees required.

It's possible to have a Blackberry enabled device and not to be a slave to it. I have a work Nokia E61 with the Blackberry client from work. It is set to silent all the time. I check it for mail when I want not when it beeps (watch Merlin Mann's Macworld talk about this topic). The reason I want a Blackberry client is so I can carry a single device and not the 2 that I have to carry at present.