06-12-2003, 01:18 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 797
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I take my leave...
It's sad, really. I wanted to like the Pocket PC. I gave up Palm for 6 months. I thought the PPC was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Problem is, I can't overlook the annoying little issues any more.
Sure I can deal with resetting once a day, everday. I don't really care.
Sure I can deal with the system telling me it's out of memory because the OS has no idea how to manage it.
Hell, I can even deal with the fact that PPC's are generally (generally, not always) bigger.
But data is important, and Activesuck is the worst thing that ever happened to handhelds.
I sync with my desktop at work and at home. Guess what? Sometimes they end up syncing, sometimes they don't. Sometimes I don't get my contacts on my handheld, sometimes I do. Sometimes I'll schedule an appointment on my desktop at work, and never see it again until I go back to my desktop at work. It doesn't end up on my PPC. It doesn't sync to my home desktop.
I check off tasks and they don't get marked as done in the handheld. Ever. Yet they get marked off on the desktop, and then when I mark it done on my home ppc as well, I have to resolve a conflict (!).
I loved my Axim, but what the hell good is it if I can't rely on the data that's in it? I suppose if I had one PPC and one desktop it wouldn't be a big deal. One sync and done. It would seem that multiple partnerships trips this baby up big time.
So I'm back to using my Tungsten T. Sure it doesn't have all the wowee kazowee features of the PPC, but at least I know the data will be there when I need it.
That to me, is more important than all the neato skeato features in the world. Data security and availability is a primary feature for me, and as long as Activesuck doesn't improve, I'm steering clear of the PPC. Too many quirks for what should be something I can depend on.
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