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2008-09-25
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2008-09-25
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wired or wireless, i would claim that its more important that the file formats stored are open, so that it can be read without some kind of "sync" translator in-between...
thats what i more and more see sync as, a translator between two or more proprietary (formats)...
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2008-09-25
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2008-09-26
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2008-09-26
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sync is something that is required when you have multiple master copies of something, whether it is a directory, a contact list, whatever. It is another kludge to workaround the fact that we are not yet in an online world, and it is still safer and easier to edit a local copy and then sync up to a remote master than it is to edit a remote master directly. I dream of a time when we have write access to the single remote master copy when we need it, then sync isn't necessary.
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2008-09-26
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2008-09-26
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I don't see how a dock is "offline". It is "online" in the most literal sense of the term, you are on a physical, hard, line to another device.
That solution seems like a kludge to me. As I said before, the real solution is getting a big fat wireless connection to your handheld. Then it will be like you are docked, no matter where you are.
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2008-09-26
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"Offline" here just means no network connection. Maybe in 10 years the "always (safely) connected" dream becomes true but today it is not. And I think the paradigm of local data (physically manageable by the owner) will not die. The dock as mentioned is just a way to connect such data to a cpu+screen on demand.
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That solution seems like a kludge to me. As I said before, the real solution is getting a big fat wireless connection to your handheld. Then it will be like you are docked, no matter where you are.
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