Auto-sync with iSync (feature request)

I have my phone with me all the time when I'm sitting down at my computer and for a while I was using e2sync with Entourage (which is a terrible program btw), and I often have thought about how nice it would be if iSync could be set to try to auto-sync on a certain interval.
Currently iSync can't even be left just running in the dock. It has to be running and open on the screen or minimized. You should be able to close its window and keep it running.
An auto-sync feature should allow you to pick which devices you would like to sync and on what interval. I.e. someone might want their PDA to sync ever hour/day and never have their phone auto-sync or vice-versa.
I looked at first hoping that their would be some app available on the internet that could solve this dillema for me, but I haven't been able to find anything. So please Apple, add this feature to iSync.
Some other features that would be nice:
* Support for more devices
* The ability to sync with sticky notes and possibly other software as well
* More advanced features and choices of direction for syncing
* Ability to set up automatic online backups to an FTP server/WebDAV server of choice
* This would be very nice for mission critical applications
* Would require some sort of auto-sync feature as well
* Support syncing with another computer possibly (so that someone can have a PowerMac at home and then a PowerBook/iBook they leave connected to it that they can take certain stuff, selected by the user, with them. Settings as well).
Thank you, would love to hear what someone from Apple has to say.

Because Bluetooth mobile phones are battery powered and a sync would need a connection, this feature will never come. This was dropped by the Bluetooth specification and is not adopted by Apple consequently.
It is a "Bluetooth is not good at auto doing" thing. This answer is not helpful, however this is the reason.

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