Businesses will have to resort to third-party products to get their PDAs to work, buying a product where there exists no official support to help the businesses with their potential problems. As far as I can tell there are three different approaches Apple can take and I will very briefly describe their possible implications.Īs described above, this poses a serious threat, since no other PDA platform currently supports the Mac platform. This means, that companies wishing to commit themselves to the platform, has to give up PDAs, or make use of third-party software, such as The Missing Sync by Mark/Space – a small software firm, that businesses might not want to commit significant trust to, especially if it’s not officially supported by the original manufacturer.Ĭonclusively to these chain of events, it’s clear that Apple needs to consider a counter-measure to limit the negative effects of Palm’s decision. As of right now, no noteworthy company actively supports syncing with the Mac. Why is this a disaster you might ask? Because of the growing importance of PDAs in the environments that Apple caters to. One is necessary, while the other is a typical Apple’ish ‘wow’ type of feature (like Exposé was it in Panther).ĭisaster struck the Mac platform at this year’s Palm Developer Conference, when Palm announced that they would stop the development Palm Desktop, their syncing (and more) software for the Mac. I will talk about two of the features I feel will help Apple accomplish this. While Apple should continue to tout the excellent features already in the OS, they need deal-making features to sell their upcoming OS upgrade (presumably X.4). Rendezvous makes networking, whether in private homes or businesses as easy as 1-2-3 – great examples are the integrating in iPhoto and iTunes, XGrid, XCode as well as iChatAV (particularly – just look at the competition: MSN, AIM etc.). They have succeeded in integrating complex technologies without the complexity.Ī great example of this is Rendezvous. Apple has introduced many improvements that goes beyond small incremental improvements to existing technologies (think Quartz Extreme, Rendezvous etc.).
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