Agendus for iPhone dedicated forum

[pdadds]

Hopefully May 1st!
http://support.iambic.com/forum/showthread.php?t=37650

[Patrik]

This is great news, this will make the iPhone/iPod Touch a real useful & practical PDA.

[muzikman52]

HOPEFULLY...this is the 'real deal'! I have been waiting to get an iPhone because there has been no version of Agendus for it. Now that my Treo is dying (a slooow death), perhaps I can finally put it out of its (and my) misery and get the long awaited iPhone AND Agendus at the same time .
I'm hoping this isn't just another 'carrot' being dangled out there for those of us that love Agendus as our Contact Management software and want an iPhone. If it is truly arriving in a couple of weeks....KUDOS to the development team!

[luvgeek]

I got a new iPhone because I just couldn't live with my Treo's web browser and the calendar doesn't sync with google.

The iphone has what appears to be a great calendar that syncs live with google, so it's easy to edit online.

Then I found that the iPhone calendar is useless because it has no alarm! (the sound of stepping on a cricket doesn't count). I have missed every appointment since I got it.

I was about to turf it then I thought... if only there is agendus for iPhone...

I pray that it appears before I smash this stupid thing.

[jemenake]

Originally Posted by luvgeek

I got a new iPhone because I just couldn't live with my Treo's web browser

Hear, hear! That's my exact story, as well.

Originally Posted by luvgeek

Then I found that the iPhone calendar is useless because it has no alarm!

Same here. Add to that the fact that there's no "snooze" feature. Grrrr!

Originally Posted by luvgeek

I have missed every appointment since I got it.

OMG! You're sound like my *twin*. Hey, do you drive a pea-green 72' AMC Pacer, too? :P

Originally Posted by luvgeek

I was about to turf it then I thought... if only there is agendus for iPhone...

Well, for the interim, I'm using Pocket Informant to get me by. It's a little better than the stock calendar (and it's free if you don't care to sync with a desktop calendar), but it's nowhere near as good as Agendus for the Palm (and how good I'm praying that Agendus for the iPhone is going to be).

[TechWriter]

Originally Posted by luvgeek

I got a new iPhone because I just couldn't live with my Treo's web browser and the calendar doesn't sync with google.

The iphone has what appears to be a great calendar that syncs live with google, so it's easy to edit online.

Then I found that the iPhone calendar is useless because it has no alarm! (the sound of stepping on a cricket doesn't count). I have missed every appointment since I got it.

I was about to turf it then I thought... if only there is agendus for iPhone...

I pray that it appears before I smash this stupid thing.

Hey--I know how you feel! I've only had my iPod Touch for a few weeks, but I used to count on Agendus or DateBk on my Palm to be my alarm. You're not completely lost--the Clock app that comes built-in on the iPod has an alarm function on it, so you can use that. The volume isn't great, but if you listen to all the sounds you have to choose from, some are clearly louder than others. Hope it helps.

[Ronald NL]

Releasing on May first means sending it for approval to Apple at least 10 days before. No update from IAMBIC so far they did this...
May first is in 3 days......

The forum on Iphone is awefully quiet. If I compare this to others who release a new Iphone app soon too quiet.

IAMBIC is not keeping us posted since many days....

So, to be honest, I expect the usual posting from Adriano that due to etc. the release has been postponed.

[billrush]

Ronald, I have to agree that I will be pleasantly surprised if we have a version on May 1. However, there may be a clause in the developers agreement with Apple not to discuss apps which have not been approved. I also read that there is now a clause which states that developers can't discuss apps which are turned down by Apple. This came after some highly publicized cases where Apple turned down apps and looked stupid. Yikes the arrogance!

While we are speculating, I am getting ready for a version of Agendus for the Iphone which only has a fraction of existing (Palm OS) Agendus functionality. Again, this is due to the serious limitations of the Apple SDK.

I suspect that Iambic has their hands full trying to make this work on 2.2 while getting a different version to work on 3.0 at the same time. With 3.0 due out in June or July, I'll bet Iambic seriously considered waiting and just doing a 3.0 version. PI's launch a few weeks ago may have complicated matters for them as well..

[Ronald NL]

Originally Posted by billrush

Ronald, I have to agree that I will be pleasantly surprised if we have a version on May 1. However, there may be a clause in the developers agreement with Apple not to discuss apps which have not been approved. I also read that there is now a clause which states that developers can't discuss apps which are turned down by Apple. This came after some highly publicized cases where Apple turned down apps and looked stupid. Yikes the arrogance!

While we are speculating, I am getting ready for a version of Agendus for the Iphone which only has a fraction of existing (Palm OS) Agendus functionality. Again, this is due to the serious limitations of the Apple SDK.

I suspect that Iambic has their hands full trying to make this work on 2.2 while getting a different version to work on 3.0 at the same time. With 3.0 due out in June or July, I'll bet Iambic seriously considered waiting and just doing a 3.0 version. PI's launch a few weeks ago may have complicated matters for them as well..

Hello Bill,

Thanks for sharing your concern. The fact that PI launced a few weeks ago, and, in contrast with Iambic, shares their progress in a perfect way, makes me believe that there is no issue with Apple that forbids to keep your customers informed. If PI's Alex can do it so can Iambic's Adriano imho.

Of course nobody is expecting a full Agendus version as we know it from Palm platform. This is a whole new start and the app needs to grow.
The people who post on this forum are all aware that Apple puts some serious restraints on the possibilities for integration on Iphone and I have no reason to believe that this will change with 3.0

The point I tried to make is that Iambic is seriously lacking communication with their customers on their forum. This is only since a year or 2, before it was much better. Time pressure or lack of resources is not an excuse in my opinion: just tell your customers you will be less active for a period and everybody understands, but again: they do not give us this information.

Same issue was occuring when Agendus for Symbian S60V3 was discussed.
No clear answers from Iambic for more than 15 months.

But hé, let's stay positive.. Might be that beginning May the appstore shows a new app: Agendus for Iphone

[billrush]

Ronald:

I completely agree with you re. communication. They certainly could be giving us a better idea. If the app isn't submitted by now, it won't be available May 1 and they could let us know in a general way.

[magic_halley]

Since my palm, clie I only used iambic and I hoped for it for my ipod touch, . . .

even if they launch in may, . . ., the lacking of communication let me buy PI.

Perhaps it is not as good as agendus, but they communicate with their customers and ask them, what they want next in PI for iP.

And communication wins. A company that is so good, that it is not nessecary for them to communicate with their customers is no company I put another dollar in, . . .

Talk to your customers or loose them, that's business today!!

Just my 2 cent

Andreas

[lolongan]

Originally Posted by magic_halley

Since my palm, clie I only used iambic and I hoped for it for my ipod touch, . . .

even if they launch in may, . . ., the lacking of communication let me buy PI.

Perhaps it is not as good as agendus, but they communicate with their customers and ask them, what they want next in PI for iP.

And communication wins. A company that is so good, that it is not nessecary for them to communicate with their customers is no company I put another dollar in, . . .

Talk to your customers or loose them, that's business today!!

Just my 2 cent

Andreas

I can not agree more !

[Silfveroxel]

I expect the same! Last time when it was mid April did I send a similar saying only days left and it was coming again! Due to stupid, ignorant Apple are we forced to delay. PS We from IAMBIC still hope that Palm will return as number one.

Originally Posted by Ronald NL

Releasing on May first means sending it for approval to Apple at least 10 days before. No update from IAMBIC so far they did this...
May first is in 3 days......

The forum on Iphone is awefully quiet. If I compare this to others who release a new Iphone app soon too quiet.

IAMBIC is not keeping us posted since many days....

So, to be honest, I expect the usual posting from Adriano that due to etc. the release has been postponed.

[luvgeek]

Originally Posted by magic_halley

even if they launch in may, . . ., the lacking of communication let me buy PI.

Perhaps it is not as good as agendus, but they communicate with their customers and ask them, what they want next in PI for iP.

And communication wins. A company that is so good, that it is not nessecary for them to communicate with their customers is no company I put another dollar in, . . .

Talk to your customers or loose them, that's business today!!

Just my 2 cent

Andreas

Wow! let's face it: No news is... Well... No news. Let's not become like a cable news network and filling the information void with conjecture.

I looked at PI and it is not even close to Agendus. It is just an integrated todo and calendar where agendus is more like a PIM crossed with a CRM. The key point of Agendus is the integration of contacts, appointments, calls, meetings, notes and more. Maybe it won't be able to truly be Agendus until 3.0 but that's only a couple of months away in any case.


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[pdradley]

I also bought PI, because I don't know what Iambic is up to. I remember it from other platforms and it was a good and serious rival to Agendus, yet it too is crippled by Apple's stance. In any case, the integration of databases in earlier versions of Agendus seems to me impossible, at the moment, for an iphone: the calendar database is closed to developers and there is no built-in todo or notes function. PI has already said it will integrate the contacts and will add a notes function. PI is also looking into some kind of direct syncing. Apple's position is certainly bad news and not just for Agendus: I have other applications (Zagat, for example) that are designed to integrate with the calendar database, but which cannot because it is closed. I don't see how any developer can get around this.