That seamless future is still, alas, in the future. You should be able to access, manage, and change it from wherever you want, whenever you want. And as is so often the case with data that was traditionally stored on a single PC somewhere, your PIM data wants to be free. Critics have called it MobileMess, which it is, but Apple's clearly onto something. The result is my multi-part Managing Your Life in the Clouds series, which came about after a disappointing but promising experience with Apple's MobileMe (see my review). Much more recently, I've been experimenting with various email and PIM cloud platforms, all of which offer some level of data synchronization across the Web, local PC applications, and mobile devices. In fact, it never really got easy or seamless, despite various attempts by companies like Apple, Palm, and others to make it so. (I know, I know, look at the geek.) When I began my experiments with Mac OS X in 2001 (you know, several years before today's trendier tech pundits), cross-platform data synchronization became an even bigger issue. There were the dozen or so PDAs I've used, including the first ever Windows CE-based device, a NEC Handheld PC (HPC), various Palm OS-based devices, numerous Windows Mobile variants, a cool credit card sized device called the REX, and a Timex data watch. I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out personal information management (PIM) synchronization over the years.
0 kommentar(er)
