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:Unpossible (Score:5, Informative)
Yeah, I know because Apple never [cups.org] gives [zeroconf.org] anything [webkit.org] back to the open source community at all!
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Yeah, I know because Apple never [cups.org] gives [zeroconf.org] anything [webkit.org] back to the open source community at all!
To be fair, "developed by Apple" in "CUPS is the standards-based, open source printing system developed by Apple Inc. for Mac OS® X and other UNIX®-like operating systems." in the CUPS home page means "Apple hired the guy who created CUPS, and it's now an Apple project", not "Apple were the original developers of CUPS".
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Re:Unpossible (Score:5, Insightful)
Pointing out that Slashdot is full of anti-Apple fanboys means your "braiin was washed in Apple juice"?
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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.
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Try pointing out any negative trait on Apple products. Then do the same for Microsoft products. Then for Linux. Then watch how you get moderated. The results are... interesting.
Speaking of mods, the person to whom you are replying was modded down as flambait, despite clearly being anything but. It kind of refutes your assertion about unfair moderation, no?
Anyway, I regularly point out negative traits about Apple products and Microsoft product and Linux. Linux is the least fairly modded (as would be expected) with negative comments routinely modded down for no reason other than that people don't like hearing about the areas where Linux still needs work. Similar comments about flaws
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No, since he made no such assertion. His only assertion was that the results were... interesting.
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For values of "interesting" == "predictable".
I am an unapologetic apple fanboy at the moment. I've "been there" and "done that" with regards to using Linux, FreeBSD and Windows.
I still DO use all of the above.
I use/admin Windows because I have to. I use FreeBSD and Apple products because I want to.
Re:Unpossible (Score:5, Insightful)
I've done that, and I have to say that I think people misjudge the bias on Slashdot. I've posted positive/negative comments about Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Linux, and I'll tell you that the response can be fairly random. You can get modded up for posting positive things about Windows and you can get modded down for posting positive things about Linux.
Beyond that, the trends aren't what most people assume. In my experience, interesting and insightful comments about any of these companies/products can get you modded up, but annoying snide cliched complaints will probably get you modded down.
If there is a bias, I think it's most heavily anti-Apple, but in a specific way: irrational and ignorant complaints against Apple are more likely to get modded up than irrational and ignorant complaints against anything else (at least within the sphere of computing. Irrational complaints about religion are probably most likely to get modded up (no, I'm not religious)). I think the reason (if I had to guess) is that there are still a fair amount of Windows/Linux/Android users who are so anti-Apple that they won't give the products a fair shake and never really use them or learn what the situation is. On the other hand, most Apple users have used other operating systems.
As a result, complaints against the one-button mouse get modded insightful and complaints against WGA/WAT get modded overrated (I guess because people think you're just piling on).
That's my interpretation, but I guess you could accuse me of being biased.
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He named one apologist. You named zero bashers. I don't see how that proves that he's wrong and you're right.
apologist? (Score:1, Offtopic)
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Why bother naming names, when I can just open any story whatsoever about Apple, and get a face full of angry bashing?
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You mean every Apple story is full of lots of Apple Worshiping. Slashdot is filled with Apple lovers who do nothing but fill up the forums, going on and on and on about how great Apple products are.
Re:Unpossible (Score:5, Insightful)
A year ago I would have agreed with you, as things tended to be pretty balanced, and pretty fair, with initial flambait, troll mods balanced out after a few hours. One of the most recent posts about Apple tells a different story with any positive posts about Apple all being modded down as troll or flamebait regardless of content.
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/07/06/1839240/More-Trouble-In-Apples-App-Store [slashdot.org]
Look at the above link, at what's being modded 'Insightful', 'Informative', and on the opposite side, trolling and flamebait.
Claiming that things are pretty even handed looks a little ridiculous. The above link is about a story where someone hacked an iTunes account and bought his own app. It immediately turned into a slew of Apple is Evil, the Walled Garden doesn't work, the app store is a failure, all modded insightful and informative, when it had nothing to do with apps other than the guy hacking the accounts bought his own app.
Slashdot has become a haven for anti-Apple trolls. Look through that link and tell me that the posts deserved Insightful, and that the trolls deserved the bashing. It's pointless anymore to even enter an Apple thread as it is immediately filled with FUD, "Apple Sucks +Insightful", and "Evil + Informative".
I particularly like the one stating "WTF, did you suck Steve's dick or something" being modded Insightful and Informative.
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Oops, sorry. Forgot my /sarcasm tag.
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If that's true, I wonder why we need daily stories (or more) on the Iphone and Ipad, along with every possible rumour about Apple.
But you must be reading a different Slashdot to me. Any criticism of Apple almost always get modded down. The days when this was a site geared towards open source are long gone.
The reality I suspect is there's no bias against Apple, rather most people just don't care (again, it's the Apple spin that not liking Apple implies there must be some "bias" against them). But there's a v
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You're an idiot. Nearly every Apple story gets flooded with Apple haters invented melodrama where there is none, because it's such a horrible thing for a company to approve what runs on its device (even though every console manufacturer does exactly the same thing).
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Yes, because Microsoft and Sony never get bashed on /.
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Nearly every Apple story gets flooded with Apple haters
Classic tactic - if someone doesn't like or use Apple, it must be out of irrational "hatred".
for a company to approve what runs on its device (even though every console manufacturer does exactly the same thing).
If Apple wants to do that, it's fine. But it's also fair game for people to criticise that, just as other people criticise Windows for things. And if you're only response is to say it's like locked down toys and games machines, well that says it
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You should look up the definition of the word strawman, moron. Congrats on your "insightful" apologetics.
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In all fairness, no platform is perfect, let's face it. You seem to be commenting on OS X (hard drives, 3d performance, etc.), so let's see:
If you want non-working cut and paste (the general case is it only works for text), no 3d performance at all, barely any wireless support, no commercial software support including de facto standards like MS Office and Photoshop, no games, amateurish and inconsistent guis, etc. ad infinitum, then run desktop Linux.
If you don't mind a pretty substandard operating system in return for all the software you could ever want and you don't need Unix, run Windows.
If you want a usable, well thought-out desktop Unix with lots of commercial software (though much less than Windows), good open source and open standards support, and you don't care about games, run OS X.
As cliche as it sounds, it's all about what works best for you.
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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...
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It's the same old arguments every time. Apple devices refine existing technologies and make them actually usable for the mass market. That's the "revolutionary" aspect. Before the iPhone came along, web browsers on mobile devices sucked. Now the bar has been raised. The same will happen with things like Face Time/video chat. The iPad wasn't the first tablet either, but it's the first tablet which actually makes sense for the mass market.
As for iPhones sucking for making phone calls, that's bullshit (to use
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Sometimes the term is deserved. Look at the interface of the HTC/Android, and the newer touch RIM devices.
Why? Just look at pre-iPhone smartphones. Only a complete moron couldn't admit Apple is a mover and shaker.
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While I can't speak for Windows... (Score:3, Informative)
I do use Linux consistently (Ubuntu and Suse). The above statement tells me you've probably got a grudge of some sort against Linux (or really just don't know), as everything, with the excepti
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.
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As a long time Linux user with an ATI card, I can tell you with absolute certainty that you don't know what you're talking about, and neither did the Mac fanboys who modded you "insightful". I can come with numerous examples of drag and drop that works (sound files from amarok into konqueror or chrome; image links dragging the entire linked document from chrome or konq into OO.o Writer with images and all, or into kate -- a pure text editor -- with image links instead of the images themselves; images from t
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I haven't used Linux seriously for a while so I have no idea about the current state of drag and drop in its various GUIs, but phrases like
I can come with numerous examples of drag and drop that works
don't exactly convince me that you have got a good argument. Drag and drop is supposed to work consistently across all applications, not for mere "numerous examples".
This is the problem with Linux, or rather the GUIs associated with it. The developers are starting with lots of disparate applications and they are slowly pulling them together until they are in the state
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What do you mean "this" is a problem with Linux, when you readily admit that you don't at all know what you're talking about, and can't come up with a single example? Fact is, drag & drop and cut & paste, simply work in virtually all apps any new user would come across. Some ancient apps, perhaps not. The same apps wouldn't magically get functional if running on that other popular unix, Mac OS X.
The problem with "Linux", or rather Slashdot, is that a bunch of idiots repeat what other idiots on Slash
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If I found *one* replacement for each of his examples (and in each case I found a commercial solution, with the exception of Photoshop), then yes, what he said is false. And because I only mentioned *one* commercial solution, that doesn't mean that there aren't other commer
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This speaks volumes for Linux.
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Insightful? wow.
I think the last time you tried linux was probably in 1852. It has improved a bit since. You should try it.
And you should believe in your own cliche - linux works for most of the people who are not as blind as some of the folks here on slashdot.
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Yes, it is definitely about what works best for you. I've been using *nix for about 20 years (SunOS, Ultrix, OSF/1, FreeBSD, Linux). I "switched" to MacOSX in 2006. In my experience, using MacOSX as a desktop OS was horribly painful, and I gave the Mac to my inlaws, switched back to Linux on a whitebox about a year later.
The main problem I had was that there was no way to configure the native window manager to my liking. I've spent 20 years with *TWM and KDE variants configured so that:
1) focus follows
iCal (Score:5, Insightful)
Apple was one of the three companies that wrote the CalDAV RFC and they implemented it immediately in iCal in 2007. (iCal is the built in calendaring app in OS X.) Previous to that that iCal already used WebDAV. They offer an OSS CalDAV server in OS X server. Why would anyone find it surprising that the rewritten WebApp version of iCal is using CalDAV?Apple has already been pushing it as hard as possible as an open standard alternative to Exchange.
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NO WAY! Someone really said that? In public?!? ^_-
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This is such a good troll that it deserves a +1, just to show other trolls how it's really done.
Re:iCal (Score:5, Informative)
In order to use the name UNIX, an operating system is required to pass a strict set of conformance tests. Therefore, Mac OS X is UNIX in far more than just a trademark sense.
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> since there is so little attention to the Unix environment
Which is the interesting point here, IMHO. Given the "its so easy to fix" implications you've used with these problems, then the fact that they're not fixed says a whole lot about how important these are to the target market. Basically, not at all.
And why would they? Can you imagine the average computer user getting upset about "fsync() semantics are broken"? Geez.
Maury
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The "people" he is referencing includes, most notably CmdrTaco.
Of course, you could just read the Wikipedia entry for yourself, it would inform you AND quench your clear lust for the Wikipedo way.
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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.
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Yeesh. SyncML? Have you ever looked at that standard? Ghastly.
Besides, converting CalDAV to SyncML on the server side shouldn't be hard, since CalDAV is iCalendar files in a set of directories on a WebDAV server, and SyncML is iCalendar files wrapped in XML and sent to a SyncML server across whatever protocol the vendor chooses. In fact, a quick Googling suggests that there are already numerous SyncML to CalDAV gateways, including open source ones.
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Yeesh. SyncML? Have you ever looked at that standard? Ghastly.
Yes it's horrible and obsolete, technically speaking. It's still used in lots of collaborative calendar software. Having syncml clients for OSX and iPhone would help me and lots of other people too to get rid of horrible nokias etc.
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Yes, it does [google.com].
Where might they take it next? (Score:1)
Does it matter? (Score:2)
As long as you have to pay for mobileme, it doesn't really matter. One of apple's biggest blunders is not considering mobileme a loss leader.
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In fact, as mac.com, MobileMe was free for a few years. I tried the paid service for a while but didn't find enough value in it to make re-upping worth it. Besides, "MobileMe" has got to be one of the worst names for a product to ever come out of Apple
PassMe, WiFiMe, FlashMe, sounds like DS (Score:2)
Besides, "MobileMe" has got to be one of the worst names for a product to ever come out of Apple
But it does sound like a good name for a DS flash card product [pineight.com].
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It sounds like some weird cybernetic sexual come-on: "Hey, baby--mobile me!"
iCaramba...
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"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.
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No I don't... I have a MobileMe account and I've stuck with the "mac.com" domain, which still works. "me.com" is too weird for words.
Re:Does it matter? (Score:4, Insightful)
Back when it was known as iTools [wikipedia.org], it was a loss leader. They gave that up after 2 years so there was a probably a good reason. Perhaps because people are willing to pay?
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What does MobileMe offer that the free options out there don't? What's the feature that would make me want to pay?
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Shiny integration and a Christmas card that supposedly comes from Steve Jobs.
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If you want features, you won't pay for it and you'll be disappointed when you see it.
Its strength is actually, imo, its lack of features.
It does have a pretty interface that works reasonable well for standard email client, web host/photo album, but its not particularly impressive. Its simple and elegant.
The MobileMe photo browser that gets created or whatever when you upload an album from iPhoto to MobileMe is surprisingly pretty for something so plain.
I only have an account for the Find My iPhone feature
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You'd pay for Finding your Phone? Most other mobile platforms that have GPS can read an incoming SMS and report back the GPS coordinates, or remotely trigger the ringer, etc, etc. It's just a simple program on the phone that sits there idly. Most of the time, there's at least one that's free.
Oh wait, that's right. The Fruit only recently added background services, and even then, would probably ban all the apps that competed with their own service. /don't have any Fruits.
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I am a subscriber; could I replace it with equivalent "free" alternatives? Probably... but - having one service to handle the calendar syncing (and syncing to my iphone), the contact syncing, bookmark syncing, as well as the easy web mail interface, plus the easy online storage & gallery functionality - I prefer that to having to find ways to integrate flickr/picasa, delicious (or another bookmark sync service), gmail, google calendar, together.
Plus, for me one of the killer apps here is the ability t
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A lot of these features I get for free with google/android - if I didn't have them for free I'm certain I'd probably shell out for it these days :(.
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Google supports CalDAV which they give away for free.
Exchange support on Google accounts, Dropbox and Wordpress makes MobileMe worthless, unless you want to find your lost iPhone.
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There is one reason to get MobileMe: contact groups
MobileMe is the only big name to support automatic/bidirectional syncing of contacts in multiple groups. I like keeping my friends, family, co-workers, and business numbers separate. The only big question here is whether multiple groups is worth the price. I think it is, but others won't.
Google's idea of contact sync is to shovel all of your contacts into one big steamy pile (on the iPhone, since we're talking about MobileMe -- I think multiple group
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As with all of these things, when you pay for something it means that the party you're buying from has an actual interest in delivering what they say they will, as opposed to the other model, where they let you sharecrop a corner of their server in order to funnel your eyeballs to the highest bidder.
The nice thing about paying directly for things is it eliminates that fundamental conflict of interest that the service provider has between the end user
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One of apple's biggest blunders is not considering mobileme a loss leader.
Particularly since you can do everything it offers for free.
Google and Apple (Score:4, Interesting)
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Google and Apple compete in mobile advertising (Score:2)
Are they pitted against each other? Other than the Android (which Google only makes the OS for) vs iPhone, what else is there?
Advertising on mobile devices.
http://advertising.apple.com/ [apple.com]
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
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Little too early to say that the iPhone 4 won't take a chunk of Android's market share, when it's only been out what, 3 weeks, wouldn't you say champ?
That's like saying "Unfortunately for Google, Android 2.2 hasn't killed iOS as everyone was predicting." FFS, the technology has just been released, give it 6 months and see how things look.
Re:Google and Apple (Score:5, Insightful)
Apple became the white knights of Opensource by adopting a BSD-based userland (It wasn't Linux but it gave the Linux fans the ability to say "See, Apple is doing it we can too"). Then Apple embraced and extended CUPS. But it's been how many years and they've not extinguished it. CUPS is used by every Linux distro I've tried and Apple has done nothing to stop them. Same with all their other technologies, they embraced the open standards and contributed a lot to different projects, but still held parts to be propitary. They were "open" but not "open enough" for some people. But largely the early appeal of OSX was to the geek crowd. Every LAMP developer I knew at the time left Linux for OSX as their desktop (usually laptop) of choice. I was one of them after spending 2 years trying to get printers and my sound card to work with Linux I got tired and just wanted something that worked. So I bought an iBook and never looked back.
Then things changed when Apple forked KHTML. For some reason, that was seen as suspicious by the /. crowd. I'm not sure why. Eventually Apple created Webkit and offered it back to the community with the KHTML folks eventually adopting it (iirc). But that's when the negativity began and then continued with the iPods.
But then, there was iTunes and the iTMS. Apple was against DRM, but added just enough DRM to get labels to sign up. And the DRM they added never once got in my way. If I wanted to burn to CD to listen in my car, I could. I could copy to a number of computers and iPods and listen to what I had purchased and the biggest factor was I could buy the couple tracks I wanted from a CD and not the entire album for $.99. It didn't mesh with some peoples idea of "freedom", but to the masses it became having cake and eating it too. Apple was the first company that was able to put it all together in a package the average person could use.
And because Apple was for the masses now and no longer aimed for the "geeks", the /. crowd began hating Apple as Apple found more and more success with more people. It was OSX that was becoming the *iux of the masses, not Linux. This continued with the iPhone. Although at first it was more of a shrug, then came the iPhone 2 with the App Store and it was full on rabid hatred. Mainly I think because, again, Apple developed a product that went over extremely well for the masses, but ignored what the "geeks" might want.
And so the Geeks went to Google. What was not to love about google, lots of geeks, lots of geeky tools made by geeks for geeks. And so, Google is now the company that replaced Apple about 2007 as the great "white knight". It will last another 3 - 5 years, and then Google will become the new "Evil company that must die" replaced by someone else. Who knows, maybe by that time the new white knight will be Microsoft. Stranger things have happened.
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Even in a seemingly anti-apple place like this, I don't think there's much negativity towards OS X. It started with the iPod and continued with the iPhone/iPad because they're not open enough.
I dislike the iPortables because without modding I can't open a terminal and browse the filesystem, install arbitrary software, and look at the source. I suspect a lot of geeks want something that 'Just Works' AND is open. The anger comes from the thought that IF only Apple opened the iDevices then geeks could finally
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Wow, you're completely and utterly brainwashed. You actually sincerely believe that people buy Apple products merely because they're cool and shiny, and not because they work well and are easy to use?
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> else why isn't *EVERY* Joe Sickpack with an Internet connection these days using a Mac
Ummm, because..
> I find a PC works well and is easy to use - and much cheaper
It's the "much cheaper" part, which YOU used as a point.
Really, your sophistry needs some work.
Maury
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I would, but mine is covered already by this: http://www.gelaskins.com/store/skins/laptops/15.4_inch_MacBook_Pro/Keep_Calm [gelaskins.com]
I rather like the decal because it helps protect the surface of the laptop from scuffs and scratches, and I rather like the design because it tickles my interests in world war 2
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Your argument confuses "simplicity" with "lack of depth".
For general use, OS X is extremely simple to use, aesthetically pleasing, consistent, and quite stable. I have experience with Windows (3.1 through 7), Linux (Fedora, Red Hat, and Ubuntu), and Solaris (their x86 workstation) "desktop" environments - none of them have matched OSX in the desktop space, in my experience. Th
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The love/hate relationship Slashdot has for Apple that's been going on since early 2000's is really fascinating. I think there is a bit of resentment from the rabid F/OSS crowd, to which I once belonged. These days I just can't bring myself to care that much about twisting my daily habits 5 different ways just for "The Cause." Above all I want shit that works. The option to spaz out in the command line is always couple of keystrokes away so I don't feel like I'm in the wilderness such as Windows where you h
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Wow, that was a great post. I think you're spot on.
The rough edges are already showing on Google.
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Of which, both iPhone and Android both use CalDAV for Google services. They are not "pitted against each other" in any way when it comes to calendar services.
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They're both aiming at Microsoft, the company that makes all the money in this space. You don't see the same level of love and happiness in their core businesses.
Where might they take it next? (Score:2)
where ever they want you to go.
"Where might they take it next?" (Score:2)
Where might they take it next?
It'd be nice if they ported their fancy web interface over to OSX server. The webmail and other web interfaces are kind of weak points in Apple's server offerings.
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Better webDAV support would be nice. Mac OS 10.6.4 finally works for me with 3rd party cardDAV servers. webDAV is the only thing left standing between me and full open-standards syncing of my user data.
default calendar with CalDAV? (Score:2)
running an xserve, OD user configured, with their email address in the open directory 'info' pane. user receives .ics calendar invites - double-click - and these always get added to her default local calendar - any geeks out there know any way to get invites to default to a CalDAV calendar? i think its not a feature, but if you can ctrl-click to select which calendar to belong to - but is there no way to make the CalDAV calendar the default instead of a local calendar? any leads much appreciated.
j
sorry for
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This has always been this way, and I have logged a bug with Apple over the issue. With 10.6.4 it seems that some of us have suddenly found the invites go in to the CalDAV calendar by default now, instead of the local calendar. This is great, but we aren't sure why, and we've seen it only occur on some machines. There does not seem to be an option to say which calendar should be the default, so it is all a little bizarre.
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Just a guess, but try opening iCal, and clicking on the calendar that you want the events to go into. Now go back to Mail, and click on the invite.
Well gee (Score:2)
Well that's just great. Do you think this time it might be able to remind me of my appointments more than one time before it doesn't remind me anymore
My Microsoft phone did a much better of scheduling my tasks and appointments that my iPhone
Dictated on my iPhone using drag
Anyone want to talk about the article? (Score:1, Insightful)
So, lots of weird meta comments about the nature of Apple fanboy-ism and rabid Apple hatred, the intricacies of pro/anti Apple moderation, gayness, etc.
Haven't seen a comment about the actual STORY though. Or the CalDAV standard. Or anything pertaining to the article at hand.
I submit that you are all horribly short on critical thinking and long on free time.
The Actual Article(tm) (Score:2)
For me this is great. My usage: to have a family calendar which my wife and I can update and have appear on each other's devices in a reasonable amount of time. My wife is fairly heavily involved in local community things, and often has meetings in the evenings I need to know about (so I can be home to look after the kids). Meanwhile, I often have late occuring work things that mea
Read MobileMe cal into Google Calendar or vv (Score:2)
CalDAV, or a Microsoft protocol, for Outlook? (Score:2)
To get this working in Microsoft Outlook, you have to install the MobileMe Control Panel for Windows. The hidden gem in all of this is that Apple plans to bring this CalDAV connectivity to Outlook users on MobileMe.
Did they explain how the first sentence necessarily implies the second?