run hard, or go home
run hard, or go home

iPhone ActiveSync. . . the missing link.

Apple’s adoption of ActiveSync for the iPhone is awesome.  ActiveSync now makes it possible to get all of your corporate email, contacts, and calendar synced to your phone.  However, you have to use it exclusively.

If I have personal contacts that I don’t want to be pushed to my corporate work account, I don’t have the ability of keeping them off the company’s server.  Or let’s say I want to mark my calendar with a particular appointment that I don’t want to have appear on my company sponsored account.  Not possible.

Allowing the user to select what information is propagated and where it is propogated to is a missing functionality.  Fuser is a step in the right direction but still not what we really need, however, even Fuser doesn’t support this model of 2-way publish and subscribe which brings to light a very important insight:

“The mobile phone is the middle ground where a person’s corporate and personal life meet.”

Technology must meet the challenge.  We want systems to be sturdy enough to handle 80% of what we do on a daily basis and flexible enough to handle 20% of the exeptions in our lives.

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