Curious to Know why use iCal over PalmDesktop
Hello all,
Please feel free to provide experiences and thoughts on the benefits of using iCal vs. PalmDesktop.
I have recently made the switch from PC - and am still in the new play phase with all of the programs avail. to Mac users. I am sure there are reasons both good and bad for using certain programs, just figured the crew here on the Apple forums would be great place to start.
Thanx,
-Al-
iBook & MBP
I needed a scheduler app a few months after iCal came out. It didn't do all the scheduler tasks I needed it to do that you can find in all the other apps but it looked like a great program, even though it was very rough around the edges. I decided to go with iCal over palm because I thought the palm app, though very advanced and did everything I needed it to do, would be discontinued soon and wouldn't be guaranteed to work in future Mac OS updates and because I thought even though iCal still needed a lot of work, it was just released so surely it would get much better soon. I made the wrong choice. Not only does palm do everything, it also still works and probably will continue to work for another decade. iCal on the other hand has not seen a significant update in a couple of years and is still almost as incomplete and rough around the edges as it ever was. Don't make my mistake man, now my workflow and event history is locked into iCal and it's too late to change. Palm is uglier but it does the job much better.
I come to this forum every few months to see if there's been any movement in iCal that I don't know about, but there never is. I've sent Apple a zillion messages and feedbacks telling them to give iCal a significant update already, but they seem to have all but abandoned this app. When I read about projects that are planned for newer versions of the Mac OS I never see any sign that they are doing any work on this app at all. If anybody has information to the contrary I'd love to hear it, but for now I'd have to advise you to not hitch your wagon to this program that Apple treats like a redheaded step child.
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