[Lt Major Burns]

it's been known for ages that apple creates many, if not 90% of the drivers that 'just work'. printers, scanner, cameras, phones, various other usb devices, all of these 'just work', and it's down to apple supporting them, backwards engineering a good driver set so that their OS remains appealing. in the last year, i reckon apples support list for iSync has quadrupled, to the point that the last 4 phones i've had, this time last year, all but one were not supported at all, and now they all are.


another factor is that perhaps, Windows Mobile is heavily protected by MS. we know that microsoft protects it's key technologies, NTFS writing is still not possible, because MS doesn't want you to. the Word .doc format has not been opened since 1997, 10 years ago. Winndows mobile may just be another example of this. if i was MS, i wouldn't be fussed. it's another reason to shell out $200 on a copy of XP SP2 to run in Parallels to get the smooth syncing that windows offers.

sad, but possibly true.