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April 21, 2005
Third party developer bridges gap between Sidekick and Mac OS
The HipTop Sidekick, available with a T-Mobile plan, can now be synchronized with Macs. The software comes from Marc Space, who is also author of software that lets you sync Pocket PCs with Macs. On his website Space describes the features:
The Missing Sync for hiptop synchronizes your contacts, calendar events and to-dos between your T-Mobile Sidekick and Mac OS X's Address Book and iCal applications. The Missing Sync uses Apple's iSync technology to synchronize your data with the T-Mobile Sidekick's Web-based Desktop Interface. Any changes are then transmitted right over-the-air to your Sidekick... Synchronize iCal calendar events and to-do items, Address Book contact information over-the-air.
HipTop's most prominent investor is Apple co founder Steve Wozniak. One was about to wonder when HipTop would finally find time to add Mac compatibility. Rumor goes it was T-Mobile who didn't have much interest in promoting Mac compatibility, since it doesn't exactly match their own policy of cutting down features of devices, compromising abilities to operate with multiple technologies that are supposed to make our lives easier.
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