Comments on: Agendus for iPhone: interview with iambic

By: Monte

Monte — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:56:00 +0000

Excerpts from minutes at an Apple board meeting:

“We had considered improving the iPhone for the business community with improvements such as complete third party access to its calendar data, however, we prefer to sell fewer iPhones. We have a problems with making more money and prefer to keep Apple products out of the hands of too many business people. It might ruin our image if iPhones or MacBooks started showing up in the business world.

Instead, we will continue to limit functionality of Apple products for the business world, particularly the iPhone. We like walking into a business office and seeing PC’s on every business person’s desk except for the lone Mac computer in the graphi designer’s office. The same for the iPhone. We need to continue to help Blackberry’s and Palm Phones remain the favorite of business people. iPhones are meant for teens and freaks and that will not change.”

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Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:26:11 +0000

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By: Steve Somerstein

Steve Somerstein — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:45:16 +0000

As a scientist who has thousands of contacts, based on sets of professional and personal categories, I need a contact list which can be grouped or selected, based on my selections. Agendus for the iPhone doesn’t appear to have this contact categorizing, only for Tasks. I want to also be able to search for people based upon their city, area code, etc., as well as string search through my contacts for critical information. Does Agendus do any of these?

Above all, I want a hotsync desktop application for my Mac from which I can see and edit all the iPhone information. Of course, the calendar, the calendar, the calendar.

By: André Brasil

André Brasil — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:20:44 +0000

When I saw agendus was up, I was as happy as I child on Halloween. I got it, installed it and regreted it immediately. All in all it is a poor app, losing in functionality to all of the other constact and task alternatives out there. The task system is pretty basic, weather is poor and that´s it. The rest is not even worth mentioning. After a few minutes of exploring, I deleted it from my iphone. Too bad, since losing Agendus and DocstoGo were the worst things about leaving a decade of being a Palm user behind. At least the new DocstoGo, even though still in development, looks great.

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:05:17 +0000

Wish I’d read the article first.
Loved Agendus on my Palm, but without Calendar there’s nothing there that’s worth the money I paid.
I’ve got address book, weather bug, bento…
If my previous experience with Iambic is the same – they’ll charge for upgrades (that should have been here in the first place. They should offer it free for this version.
Also, the quote & relevant date throw errors and don’t work – even though I don’t want this.
I’d wait for the next version.

By: No Calendar API in iPhone SDK 3, Developers Search for Alternatives « Edo Amin

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:09:12 +0000

[...] Agendus for iPhone: interview with iambic | PDA-247 I totally understand those Agendus users out there who, when hearing version 1.0 of the iPhone flavour has no calendar integration, feel disappointed. Sadly enough, so far Apple doesn’t allow any third party app to access the calendar. Essentially the iPhone SDK doesn’t provide functions allowing developers to tie into calendar related data. Why is this? Unclear at the moment, but on the other hand there are some APIs allowing access to contact info, which we are fully taking advantage of, and these allow us to integrate contacts.Unfortunately things don’t appear to change much even in version 3 of the SDK, or at least in the latest beta version we have, there still is no Calendar related API. [...]

By: Prickly Dick

Prickly Dick — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:53:23 +0000

With out the calender functionality its just window dressing. I’m still holding back on getting an iphone.

Importing of existing contact and calender data from a palm environment is as critical to meet my needs.