Delayed for years and now 10.5 only - jrm2

Sir ("suitsme"),

Unless I've misunderstood your comment and misplaced angst at Apple for not making this software operable with MacOS 10.4... you may wish to know that the software is written and distributed by Research in Motion (RIM), the makers of Blackberry devices. It is not Apple's duty to write software to sync with a competitor's hardware. Moreover, Apple has made and marketed its own smartphone for a couple years. Some would say their's is a superior product (including providing syncing software for both Macs & PCs). If you "demand" that RIM should have written software for their competitor's hardware sooner, you might want to note that you find it interesting that they finally did so only after Apple apparently made significant inroads into RIM's former customer base. For you to demand that Apple write the software for RIM seems to miss the point of capitalism. Once you've directed your comments, concerns, and if I've got it right, your angst at RIM, I would love to hear what response you get from them. I'm guessing you will understand why they took this long when they do not respond to you at all. Sorry mate.

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Saturday, October 03 2009 @ 08:18 PM PDT

Delayed for years and now 10.5 only - hearududes

Dude,Classic Come on!
This app works great, quit your bellyaching.

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Saturday, October 03 2009 @ 08:37 PM PDT

Delayed for years and now 10.5 only - troyray_dotmac

I completely agree with your complaint, but it has nothing to do with Apple. The software is from RIM (the Blackberry people), and it's for too late, and it doesn't work with 10.6 either.

It's no wonder that the Blackberry has lost ground to the iPhone and other smartphones. Clumsy hardware, and crappy software when it finally arrives. RIM is still a Microsoft centered company, first ignoring Mac users, then proving a lack of interest in Mac users with this weak effort.

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Sunday, October 04 2009 @ 09:45 AM PDT

Delayed for years and now 10.5 only - suitsme

I will ignore the first respondent.

No, planned obsolescence is a long standing Apple strategy.

It's similar to Bento, also not technically Apple software. Will only run on Leopard (and maybe Snow L., I haven't checked.) There is no good reason for this widespread practice except subtle or overt pressure put on software developers by Apple in order to extract system OS upgrade money from consumers.

This Blackberry software has been in development for years. It makes no technical sense whatsoever for it not to work with Tiger, which was the OS all during the development phase.

On some of the other points, there is some confusion about the hardware and software relationships. While neither Apple nor RIM would necessarily "want" to develop products for competitors, the fact is that Blackberry has Mac users - I can't imagine why - and therefore should address those customers' needs. Apple introduced iSync and should support it better than they miserably do - except Apple in its excessive margins hunt wants to induce everyone to buy an iPhone. I wouldn't do that on the replaceable battery issue alone, which is more planned obsolescence.

Tiger is not an outdated OS. It's not even old. The fact that I want to stay with it to run Classic, which is old, is not relevant to Apple's planned obsolescence strategy of making Tiger unusable with a wide range of newish apps, via explicit or implicit pressure on developers.

Of course, it's also possible that RIM is just clueless, rather than responding to any suggestions to developers to only release for Leopard and newer. The long delay in getting this software out does argue in favor of this possibility, also.

Finally, for you droids, Apple is not some fanboy Star Trek enterprise. It can be more customer oriented or it will face defections, as will happen with iPhone market share over the next couple years.

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Saturday, October 10 2009 @ 10:56 AM PDT

Delayed for years and now 10.5 only - xjja

You're an ass-hat. You don't understand technology, companies or products in the slightest.

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Tuesday, October 20 2009 @ 10:02 AM PDT