tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327817.post113337208007477695..comments2024-01-25T13:55:08.273+00:00Comments on Gendal World: Siemens Success!Richard Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14808940497740675782noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327817.post-1133432273804106232005-12-01T10:17:00.000+00:002005-12-01T10:17:00.000+00:00"t's an all-to-infrequent event these days... ;-)"..."t's an all-to-infrequent event these days... ;-)"<BR/><BR/>Yeah, yeah, yeah. What-ev-ah!<BR/><BR/><BR/>As for making things difficult... I suspect that engineers and managers in phone companies suffer from an excess of optimism.<BR/><BR/>They seem to assume their phones will never go wrong and that, in any case, their "sync" software will work.<BR/><BR/>As anybody who has ever tried to use such software will testify, they are usually very buggy and suffer terribly from the fact that bluetooth drivers - even today - are still pretty shoddy.<BR/><BR/>Oh well - it's all sorted now.<BR/><BR/>The really embarrassing thing is that this problem started because Siemens could only sync to Microsoft Outlook... which as an IBMer I don't have a license for.<BR/><BR/>Except... it was only when I hit the need for Visual Studio 6.0 that I realised that my MSDN subscription could have provided a copy of Outlook all along :-(Richard Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14808940497740675782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327817.post-1133431858729670312005-12-01T10:10:00.000+00:002005-12-01T10:10:00.000+00:00Richard, I'm glad I caused you to exercise your te...Richard, I'm glad I caused you to exercise your technical skills. It's an all-to-infrequent event these days... ;-)<BR/><BR/>Completely agree that it is unreasonable for these things to be so hard. I spent some time playing with SyncML a couple of years ago, which is a standard, but trying to get my (then) Nokia 7650 talking to a SyncML server running on Linux was itself a challenge. It does seem that several of the phone companies are intent on making things difficult for users :-(Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com