James and I had a great chat this morning around MobileMe, the new "sync your many devices" plan coming soon from Apple. It’s still too early to tell what mechanism Apple is using for the synching, i.e.: iSync, although they did refer to ActiveSync as "ActiveStink" in their presentation. I thought that was in poor taste because although ActiveSync can be flaky between PC and handheld, I’ve found it to be 99.999% reliable when it comes to over-the-air Exchange synchornization in the three years that I used it.
In any case, I know James has a bunch of good conversation coming up on this topic; one that’s key to mobile computing users with multiple devices. At the moment, you may want to check Paul Thurott’s initial table of what syncs with what in MobileMe. I see that bookmarks will sync and not just with Safari, but with Internet Explorer as well. Live Mesh from Microsoft has potential as a competitor here as it works with PCs now and will work with Macs & phones in the future. It seems geared more towards files and folders in terms of syncing, so unless I missed it, e-mail would be a separate solution that could possibly be integrated. By waiting (or taking so long to get it going, whichever the case may be), did Microsoft leave the door wide open for this Apple development in the Land of Sync? And where does ActiveSync figure into all this, if it does at all? Remember, Apple did license ActiveSync for the Exchange features coming in the iPhone 2.0 firmware…
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