When 3 == 11: Synching Cellphones on a Mac vs. Windows

Posted on December 16, 2005
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It’s Friday morning, it’s early, and nothing starts a Friday off right like a little Windows bashing. Remember the old Jeff Goldblum Apple ads about setting up a Mac: “there is no Step 3″? When it comes to synching your cellphone with a Mac Jeff Watkins finds that there is no Step 4 in The Searing Pain of Using Windows:

Here’s the complete process of synchronising my phone with iCal and Tiger’s Address Book:

  1. Control-click on the iSync application icon in the Dock.
  2. Pick Sync Devices from the context menu.
  3. Wait for my phone to chime letting me know that the synchronisation has completed.

On the Windows side he finds that there is no Step… 12. His conclusion?

There really is no comparison between the Macintosh experience and the Windows experience. Synchronising with iSync is a pleasure, while synchronising on Windows is like scrubbing the backs of my eyeballs with sandpaper.

I don’t even want to think about what sort of hell this might be under Linux. I’m pretty sure* it would involve having to recompile my kernel.

(*and by “pretty sure” I mean “have absolutely no idea”)

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3 Responses to “When 3 == 11: Synching Cellphones on a Mac vs. Windows”

  1. Barry on December 16th, 2005 10:14 am

    Here’s the complete process of synchronising my phone with iCal and Tiger’s Address Book:

    1. Control-click on the iSync application icon in the Dock.
    2. Pick Sync Devices from the context menu.
    3. Wait for my phone to chime letting me know that the synchronisation has completed.

    Well, sorry to say, that’s not always true. Even if you buy a phone that Apple specifically> says is compatible like my Motorola. The Mac may be divine when it works, but when it doesn’t it is at least as irritating as a Windows machine. Check my blog for the strange tale.

  2. Barry on December 16th, 2005 10:17 am

    Hmmm…. bad URL.
    http://www.community-media.com/wordpress/?p=161

  3. MrHappy on December 16th, 2005 1:00 pm

    Which phone do you have? Telus finally has phones with Bluetooth and I’ve been eyeing a couple of them as an upgrade. The only reason I’d bother to do so is for the synching with my Mac.

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