I really like having my entire set of contacts and calendars available on my iPhone. I’m using the new Plaxo 3.0 engine to sync calendars and contacts between my Mac’s iCal and Address Book, Outlook 2003 on Windows XP and my iPhone. What’s becoming a pain is having to use iTunes to facilitate the syncing of iPhone with these data sources.
What I’d really like is for continuous background synchronization of all my iPhone data (songs, photos, contacts, calendars, etc.) whenever I dock my iPhone with my Mac. Let me use iTunes when I need to do some direct management of data, e.g.: modifying playlists, but don’t force me to keep iTunes open just for synchronization purposes when I don’t need it.
I’m hoping that Leopard has a completely revised strategy and architecture for using all variety of syncable mobile devices with Mac OS X. Today’s process is fine, but it could be refined to be far more elegant and automatic.
