Comments on: iPhone Calendar Syncing: 1.x vs. 2.0 vs. MobileMe + Whither the Digital Hub?

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:34:44 +0000

Grrrr. My iphone calenders just synced some events that i deleted off my macbook pro’s ical weeks ago. What am i paying for mobile me for then?

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 10:58:53 +0000

For me, I want to sync all my home calendars, which is working perfectly using MobileMe. For work calendars, ActiveSync is handling them just fine to.

Where it's breaking down, I think, is for those who are more ninja with the needs.

Merlin Mann, for example, might be going to war...

By: Nick WL

Nick WL — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:53:34 +0000

I depend totally on my desktop and phone calendars syncing, both ways, reliably. I was suckered into buying iPhone by Jobs’ keynote speech (and I was having yet another bad day with Outlook and WM6 on my XDA). Mobile Me is a JOKE!!! I’ve tried it every which way but can’t get anything approaching repeatability or reliability from it, finally turned it off last night and went back to iTunes syncing – still less than perfect… Surely it can’t be THAT difficult??

By: Dean

Dean — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:23:26 +0000

Calendars and synching them on Mac/iPhone is a embarrassment, if not a big joke.

You really just have to choose which version of broken you want. I subscribe to calendars I depend on just as much as my personal local calendars. Since the MobileMe version of working with calendars is broken in regards to subscribed calendars, I choose to do it the tethered way by synching via iTunes.

I love Apple hardware and Mac OS, but Apple is the not be-all, end-all of everything. They have a long ways to go before they "get it" with networked computing.