Windows Mobile support

[fryke]

There _are_ open standards for calendar and contact synching. At least Symbian is using them.

[Viro]

Standards are only standards when people standardize on them :P.

[robyn1]

I was looking at iSync and surprised that it sync'd with smart phones but not windows mobile. My suggestion is for a way to sync PDAs with the Mac in a way that is robust and consistent with the rest of Mac software. The low number of PDAs surprises me, because I know lots of people with windows mobile PDAs, especially combination phones.

My suggestion was that the syncing for Windows Mobile is incorporated into iSync. Apple wrote the software, it's clearly expandable and they do a good job.

At present, my Mac doesn't recognise my PDA, either connected via bluetooth or USB. The Missing Sync is great, but MS ActiveSync translates Pocket Word documents so they can be read by MS word. There is another 3rd party product that does this, and this requires yet another sync setup and associated messing around. Much easier to have it all in the one product.

As far as who writes it, I think we can all come up with equally valid reasons why different parties should write it. However, I'm more interested in having it written (yep, 3rd parties are there), integrated into the Mac OS standard and consistent. My best idea is iSync.

[monktus]

Another problem is that Missing Sync still doesn't support WM5 properly. To be fair, Microsoft seem to have completely changed the sync system from the previous version, but in effect you can't use a WM5 device with your Mac yet, and it's been out for a while now.

Ideally support should be included with iSync but it's something that Microsoft would have to cooperate with Apple on, and they seem to be doing that less and less. And as mentioned above, there are a lot of Windows Mobile PDAs and Smartphones out there and incompatibility with OSX is damaging to Apple's Switch campaign (and a nuisance for existing users with these devices).