Apple Mail does not require a Sync app as it is a pretty robust IMAP
client in and of itself (although i would love an 'archive button --
but I hear you can just make your 'trash' folder your All Mail folder
to solve that issue -- but then you really can't delete emails while
in Mail.app). (Outlook is a horrible IMAP client and I'm sure MS does
this on purpose).
iCal under Leopard already can directly connect to any gMail calendar
using CalDAV (it's becoming somewhat of a standard, except in MS's
eyes, go figure). See Calaboration from google code http://bit.ly/8gSY
The only 'sync' client really needed for the Mac is Address Book --
and I'm sure it'll come down the pipe now that they've just announced
a new Contact API (v3.0) which (finally) gives structured contact
fields (fname, lname, city, state, zip, etc.) -- as of right now gmail
contacts is just blobs of data (Name, Address, etc.) causing A LOT of
issues for those dev's creating sync programs. This should really
clear up any of those issues that are going on at the moment and have
been for years! Go devs!! Funny thing is, while apps using the new
API work fine (as does Outlook sync, bb sync, and iPhone (active)sync
-- the web GUI and Anroid phones do not comply w/ this new API and
actually break the structured data!! I'm sure a fix is to come
soon.
On Jun 10, 7:20 am, der_ben wrote:
> I was reading in the news today, that Google will bring out Google
> Apps Sync for MS Outlook. So you don't need an Exchange Server anymore
> to sync your contacts, just doing the sync with Google Mail and
> Calendar. That sounds very interesting to me, especially when I think
> of my Macbook and Spanning Sync. So my question is: Will there be
> Google Apps Sync for Apple Mail and iCal too (in the near future)?
> Thanks for replies.
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