> 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 codehttp://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.