Apple Implements the CalDAV Standard For MobileMe 152
Vermyndax writes "Apple announced the new MobileMe Calendar beta on July 6th. The mainstream press picked up the story and plugged the gorgeous new iPad-like interface for all devices. It seems, however, that they missed the real story: MobileMe's new Calendar application is an implementation of CalDAV, the proposed calendaring standard. This may be the same implementation that exists in Snow Leopard Server and is open sourced. The hidden gem in all of this is that Apple plans to bring this CalDAV connectivity to Outlook users on MobileMe. Where might they take it next?"
Unpossible (Score:3, Interesting)
As everybody knows, Apple is a closed and evil company, therefore the headline is misleading and the story inaccurate. QED.
Re:iCal (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Unpossible (Score:1, Interesting)
Slashdot is equally full of Apple fanbois and apologists.
That's ridiculous. The Slashdot user base is heavily biased against Apple. The fact that you name a single name of someone who is supposedly an "apologist" is pretty telling.
Re:iCal (Score:3, Interesting)
It's worthwhile to have someone point out that the protocol behind this service is CalDAV, because that lets us Evolution users know how to synchronize with it.
Google and Apple (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Close (Score:5, Interesting)
As cliche as it sounds, it's all about what works best for you.
I totally agree. I've been vocal about the shortcomings about Windows and Linux (no Quickbooks alternative!?) for a depressing amount of time. Though I wouldn't exactly put Windows in the "substandard OS" category if I wasn't throwing OS X and Linux in the same box as well.
The issue I have with Apple is that the pride has turned to arrogance. Now you're buying "magical and revolutionary devices" that "change the world" and people are actually believing the bullshit. I mean, their phones suck at making phone calls, but good news! You can edit movies instead. And if video chat is a revolution, don't tell the Japanese consumers who have been doing it for years. Or anyone who's used Skype.
I guess it taps into the same disappointment I have with people in general when it comes to propaganda. But maybe the only thing worse than someone who thinks a phone or an iPod Touch XL is going to change their life is the guy with so much free time he decides to complain publicly about it...
Re:Does it matter? (Score:3, Interesting)
"MobileMe" has got to be one of the worst names for a product to ever come out of Apple
No argument there - I'd put it one step down from the "iPad" as far as bad product names go. You do have to admit, though, that me.com is a pretty good domain for an email address.
Re:Close (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:While I can't speak for Windows... (Score:4, Interesting)
Copy and paste - not just text - is doable. Ditto for 3d hardware performance (I assume you were referring to hardware acceleration). For commercial MS Office support, you may want to check out Softmaker - it's an excellent office suite. I'm not a gamer, but I know that there are commercial games available for Linux as well. The GUI, well, I suppose that's what you make of it - at least you can tweak it to your heart's content.
Let me guess, you found at least two applications that can copy and paste something non-text, you have an nvdia video card, you "don't need Office", and you found at least one commercial game for Linux, so everything he said is false.
Guy, if the bar was REALLY as low as you make it out to be, Linux would be on everyone's desktop by virtue of being free, and "good enough". Clearly, "good enough" is further out of reach than you would have us believe.
No need to sound bitter when describing something you don't use.
More current Windows and Mac users have Linux experience than you think. Your whole "you don't get it" attitude is so 2000. Any self respecting IT nerd has at least toyed with Linux at this point, and sorry if you feelings get hurt if we think Windows or Macs are worth the price. Linux has been in the mainstream long enough for plenty of people to have extensively been there, done that, and you're not fooling us.
P.S.
If case you still aren't convinced the whole world doesn't love Linux. There are still a lot of resentful UNIX server admins out there that appreciate the free tools and would happily shove all Linux outside the cross-platform GNU userland up your ass for you.
P.P.S.
If you mod me flamebait, you "just don't get it," and you're probably a Linux shill or something.
Re:Google and Apple (Score:4, Interesting)
> Unfortunately for Apple, the iPhone4 hasn't really killed Android
Was anyone outside the US's tech boiler-room really expecting this?
Here in the GWN all of the major carriers, and their fighter brands, carry the iPhone. That's been true since Bell and Telus switched to the GSM stack late last year, just as Android was really coming out.
Since then I have seen exactly three Android devices in use, and one of them lies dormant in a drawer for 99.9% of its life. I don't believe this is a particularly biased sample. RIM and Apple completely own the mobile market here. I have not seen a single one in use in the UK, although that is a slightly more biased sample (two weeks does not make for a strong numbers base).
Does anyone really think that Android would have got the foothold it has if the iPhone was available on CDMA? I don't. It's different now that it's out there in the wild, but I don't believe it's success is anything other than Apple's failure to get onto Verizon.
Maury