Access to iPhone Native Calendar

[Allibama]

Personally, I don't believe any calendar is worth it if you can't sync it to Google.

[mr.sweetbeat]

The majority of your Palm users (and BB) are professional users who use an exchange server or something to get emails and standard Outlook stuff.

All those people here in the iPhone forum who are begging you to get back to the Palm quality of Agendus are asking for the Agendus of old because of the ability to sync with Outlook.

I love the ability to sync with Google, however, most professionals manage their schedule in Outlook and, where possible, on an exchange server that you can set the iPhone to sync with.

If the calendar events are coming in through invites and adding them while in front of the PC, then Outlook is the most direct way to get them to iPhone and this does happen now, just with a crappy iPhone calendar.

The Agendus promises to be better and being able to take over the iPhone's calendar abilities (and an option to sync with google) would be the best we could get.

PS/ I have turned off my sync when opening and it still does it every time... now what?

[Allibama]

Is it syncing when you open, or is it just "Loading events?"

[mr.sweetbeat]

Just loading events. It takes forever though - 5-15 seconds. Is that really what it should be doing?

[Allibama]

They're working on speeding up the load time.

[mbergm]

If the connection with the native calendar is posing major challenges, would you consider offering an option for ActiveSync with Exchange? This would meet many business users needs.

[Allibama]

We don't know what the plans are at this point. It's kinda like a surprise package.

[mrbohn]

Originally Posted by Allibama

Personally, I don't believe any calendar is worth it if you can't sync it to Google.

Regardless of what it syncs to, the first thing it needs to do is use the native calander info, just as it did with the Palm OS. Until that happens I won't consider any 3rd party calander app; it's redundant and tedious to have two different calanders.

To be honest, I'm not thrilled with syncing to 'the cloud' i.e. Google. I much prefer to sync to Outlook on my desktop PC.

Mark

[mrbohn]

Originally Posted by donkei

I do not understand why everyone is so hot about integrating access to the Native Calendar, in my opinion it stinks.
As far as I can see you cannot set a repeat event to repeat say on the third Thursday or second Tuesday or last Sunday of every month, only monthly (useless).
My .02

This would be one reason to have a 3rd party app that uses the native calander; the data would be the same, but options such as repeating appointments could be customized exactly like you describe. This is how Agendus worked with the Palm OS.

Mark

[Allibama]

But Palm OS is dead and we have to move on.

[mrbohn]

Originally Posted by Allibama

But Palm OS is dead and we have to move on.

Regardless, having two calander databases is redundant don't you think? Syncing with Google just adds more complexity - simplest solution is to sync with the host desktop. Apple has made the native calander available to 3rd parties, so it's time for Agendus to take advantage of that.

[Allibama]

Regardless of their making the native calendar available...the days of syncing to the desktop are over. Look at Android. Look at WebOS. No local sync. If you sync with Google, your contacts and calendar are safe and you don't have to worry about your computer crashing. It's not like Palm where another db took up extra space that you couldn't afford either. Since I got my iPhone 4, I haven't even opened the native calendar.

[mrbohn]

Originally Posted by Allibama

Regardless of their making the native calendar available...the days of syncing to the desktop are over. Look at Android. Look at WebOS. No local sync. If you sync with Google, your contacts and calendar are safe and you don't have to worry about your computer crashing. It's not like Palm where another db took up extra space that you couldn't afford either. Since I got my iPhone 4, I haven't even opened the native calendar.

Ok, for the sake of argument let's say syncing with the desktop is dead. I still don't understand why a 3rd party calendar can't use the same native data. The native calendar can't be removed as far as I know, so it makes no sense to me to have 2 calender apps and 2 calendar files. Why else would Apple have finally granted developers access to the native calendar?

[Allibama]

They granted access so that you could have local notifications.

[armejia]

Did you see Aroundcal at the store, this is like Agendus for Palm. If you miss this, this is your app. This is the probe than you can go at this way. I have Aroundcal and is amazing.