Comments on: iCloud 101: Know your family’s Calendar

By: nottellinyou

nottellinyou — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 12:05:35 +0000

Really? We’re arguing about calendars? I have no desire to use Google Calendar so this is good for me. I would also like to point out that iCal has had the ability to share calendars since 2002 and Google calendar was not released until 4 years later in 2006. So this “who came first” is silly and not important to an article entitled
“iCloud”.

Carry on.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 08:52:28 +0000

Great iCal article…esp, if family members don’t reply to invitations…another thing you can do, is to set up iCal to send out an email / text message reminder a few minutes before scheduled event is about to start. I find text messaging works best for us…

By: Karl M.

Karl M. — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 02:18:45 +0000

Mark,

Just because Google had a shared calendar first, everything created thereafter shouldn’t be considered? What kind of reasoning is that?

Also, the title clearly reads “iCould 101″. Did it read “Comprehensive Shared Calendar Evaluation” when you posted your comment, or is Google part of iCloud, or did you just post without thinking?

By: Sticky

Sticky — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 01:49:47 +0000

Apparently you’ve never logged on to iCloud.com. Same thing ust not all the other crap to complicate it.

By: Mark Kelley

Mark Kelley — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 23:00:20 +0000

Is this just a free ad for an Apple product that Google’s had for a couple years already? Yes – it’s a good idea, but it’a also an OLD idea that Google has long since solved and my family and others have been using for years.

GigaOm just dropped a notch. This isin’t tech journalism – just a shameless plug. Hie “review” does not even mention Google Calendar.

Apple does so many great things. Network services are not among them.

By: Nitin Borwankar

Nitin Borwankar — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 17:49:31 +0000

This seems overly complicated to do. Using Google Calendar allows family members to have whatever phone and OS they want and yet be able to sync schedules. That’s what I use in a mixture of Windows and Mac’s, iPhones and Android – works seamlessly.

By: Alex Murphy

Alex Murphy — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 17:33:03 +0000

Or everyone in the family can make it easier on themselves and just use Google Calendar…have separate calendars synced among everyone (and a shared family calendar) that is accessible from any mobile device or web browser, regardless of the OS.