One more bites the dust

[Ben Scott]

On 1/5/06, Brian <gnhlug at karas.net> wrote:
> With SnapperMail you can sync your emails with an Exchange server.  With
> Snapper or Chatter on Polm, and IMAP instead of POP3 you can sync email
> *AND* eliminate any need for Exchange (for the email part...).

  That looks like Yet Another Mail Client.  The sales and management
types who so love the CrackBerry also love Outlook.  That's a big part
of why they love the 'berry.  Everything they do in one is seamlessly
reflected in the other.  It really does do that part very well.  Most
mobile email/PIM products feel like they bolt on to Exchange; the BB
feels like Outlook in your hand.

  The active notification ("push") of email is the other.  It works
like With Palm and Wince both, you need to have the thing turn on and
poll the server.  BB works like a cell phone.

  The difference in user experience between these two sorts of
solutions is pretty tremendous (to the target market, anyway), but
something a lot of purveyors fail to see.

-- Ben