Re: [NTLK] Experience with NewtSync and a suggestion

This sounds like a fine, constructive, and creative idea to me (even
if it was ripped off from "My Dream App" ;-) ). The resulting app
could be free to contributors, $10-20 shareware to everyone else
(since who with a MP and a Mac running OS X wouldn't want it) so the
dev could even keep making some money off it after the initial
release (and maybe fund updates).

I know that iCal syncing is always a thorn in my side keeping my Newt
from going from great tool to INSANELY great tool in my day-to-day
life. (Well, that and *reliable* Names<->Address Book sync). I'm
getting a little sick of my "back up Newt, send all addresses from
Newt to Mac as vCard, delete Names storage, add vCard to Address
Book, then re-sync" routine when NewtSync starts to choke on some
Name or other.)

And if our prospective developer wanted to make it an iSync "conduit"
w/ a dedicated sync app on the Newt, and Blunt-aware, so that I could
be syncing my BT phone and my BT Newt all at the same time, I would
be in nerdvana. But, starting from either the existing NewtSync or
DCL code-bases could also work.

I would gleefully contribute to this, and I hope that all of us OS X
users on this list would, too!

But who would be up for the effort that has the skillz and would find
this to be a worthy deal for them?

-Sonya

Tovi wrote:

> After visiting the MyDreamApp (http://www.mydreamapp.com) website I
> had an idea and thought I'd ask the list for your input. I understand
> that development for the Newton is done by the community and we can't
> expect a company to take this on since there is no way of making any
> money out of it. Wouldn't it be possible then, as this is an
> essential piece of software if the MP's life is going to be
> lengthened, for everyone in the community to give money to a
> developer to solve this problem? Suppose there are 500 people in the
> community that give $10 (maybe $20) dollars to a professional
> developer. Wouldn't this be enough to entice him to write a fully
> working and useful syncing software for OS X? We already have two
> open source initiatives, maybe he could start working from those.
> Hey, maybe some member of the list would be willing to do it !
>
> This may be a naive suggestion, but I know I would gladly pay to have
> my MP flawlessly sync to my iMac.
>
> Tovi

==
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