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The demise of iSync?  3

I may have missed a memo or post on a Mac forum or news site, but it seems to me that poor old iSync is slowly being phased out.

One of the first screenshots I saw of OS X showed iSync and my thought was: “Cool!”

When I first got my Mac, the only icon in my iSync window was .Mac - it looked very lonely with the Sync Devices button way over the other side. I was almost ashamed at being glad to add more icons when I got a Bluetooth phone and then an iPod.

First of all was the move of .Mac syncing to it’s own system preferences panel:

More recently the updating of contacts and calendars on iPods was also removed from iSync and moved to iTunes.

Personally, the only thing I have left to update is my mobile phone - maybe this’ll be moved to Address Book?

Actually, the more I think about it the more logical it seems. It’s a nice idea to have a central syncing app but I personally don’t always have my iPod and mobile phone handy at the same time, so iSync throws up a message about one or the other not being available - having them sync with their respective apps as and when they’re connected is a good idea. I should have realised that before I started this post …

There are many of you out there that sync your PDA’s with iSync, but I don’t have one of these so I can’t comment on how this may be changed if at all.

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