Everyone and his brother is buying a smartphone these days. The venerable agenda vendors like QuoVadis, TimeSystem and friends all thought “we are dead”. But they can rest, as no smartphone vendor has really provided us with a valid calendar system.
SyncML was a stupid idea (why peer-to-peer sync ?), and CalDAV is the solution. Only, people don’t seem to understand this, and continue to provide stupid peer-to-peer sync over USB cables, instead of a real, good CalDAV client/server environment.
The Apple iPhone has something usable in regards to CalDAV, but it misses the most important view in its Calendar : the week view. Everyone wants a week view, most paper agendas sold are using this view. Why do Apple still miss this, after thousands of requests on their feedback page ?
PocketInformant is selling what seem to be the perfect electronic agenda with all sorts of view, GTD method and task integration, but it doesn’t support CalDAV, and they have no plan to add this in the near future (I asked).
A solution I have found is to use a jailbreak application called myWeek. Not perfect, but OK until Apple or PI wakes up and do their job. Go ahead and support myWeek, it’s only €2.99 (3.99 from version 1.0, so hurry up).
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