The whole sync issue seems rather complicated. Here, Apple comes along
and introduces this "Most Advanced OS" which also brings along it's own
Address Book - no calendar app though. Instead of everybody using it,
everybody writes his own. There is the Palm Desktop - to which we can
now sync (well, sort of), then there is Entourage with is own stuff,
which in turn is shared with the M$ Applications (Word, Excel), then
there is Now - who is trying to convince me that I should buy from them
what I get for free from Palm, then there is myself who has written his
own web based address book ...
And of course, none of them really talk to each other - but of course,
we, the Newton people want to sync with each and every one of them - oh
and yes, then there is the Windows world which I haven't even considered
so far with it's myriad of PIM type applications.
I think, before anybody seriously considers writing any type of
application to sync the Newton to anything, we need a common base to
work with. I would consider writing some sync application which would
let me sync a Newton to my PostgreSQL based address book. I might also
consider to write a simple calendar app, also based on PostgreSQL, maybe
using RealBasic, but the RealBasic <-> Database interface is nowhere
explained properly in any of the RealBasic documents I went through. A
RealBasic <-> Newton interface - well, does that exist somewhere?
Oh and about this "Most Advanced OS" stuff, Steve Jobs is going on
about? Well, BSD 4.4 is nothing new and neither is a Mach MicroKernel.
The Aqua Desktop, well, it's the old MacOS with a pretty face. And in
the old MacOS (7 - 9), I was able to print to my two networked DeskJet
printers (via a JetDirect print server) from all of my machines. Under
MacOS X, this is no longer possible and I have to hook the printers up
via USB - one per machine - Now I have 3 machines here at home which can
no longer print because I refuse to buy them some more printers. Asking
Apple about the issue, you get "This is an issue with the driver - which
is the responsibility of HP". Kinda like: "We built this car which uses
this new type of gas which is our proprietary gas, sorry, but they don't
have that at the gas stations? - well, too bad, go and complain to the
oil companies.".
Oh well, anyway - if anybody can give me some pointers as to talking
from a Newton to RealBasic and/or RealBasic and SQL databases, I might
get tempted and write some 'Data Exchange App'.
Best regards,
Chris
Chris Ruprecht
1505 Fort Clark Boulevard #1-205 * Gainesville, FL 32606
E-mail: chrup_at_NOSPAMearthlink.net
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