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Blackberry Desktop coming to the Mac in September
There are screenshots on the official blog, and boy does that thing look like iTunes, all the way down to the sidebar menu, memory usage bar, and even the Music syncing screen. But then again, as we said last night, iTunes is basically the gold standard for syncing apps -- every other proprietary app we've used, from the Palm Desktop app all the way back to the proprietary Sony app I used to use with my old minidisc player, is more or less rubbish. It's great that Crackberry users will finally get to sync directly with their Mac using an official program, but it is funny that that program looks almost exactly like iTunes.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
guerro said 12:55AM on 7-21-2009
BlackBerry not Blackberry. FYI.
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Bingo said 2:47AM on 7-21-2009
Anal not anal. FYI.
guerro said 12:50PM on 7-21-2009
It's not anal to refer to a company and it's products by it's name. It is even right there staring at you in the screen shot "BlackBerry".
Bingo said 2:12PM on 7-21-2009
You're a loser for Internet Spell Check.
Minus 10 points to you
Minus additional 30 points for your own errors (2 errors in your reply)
If you're going to correct somebody, you better make sure you never make a grammatical error or spelling mistake Especially on the Interwebz!
guerro said 3:59PM on 7-21-2009
@Bingo Here is an idea. Go F yourself. Kthnxbye. !!1! evar Am I internet enough for you now ?
Bingo said 6:48PM on 7-21-2009
Score:
- 10 Internet Spell Check
- 30 Hypocrisy (you're own errors)
- 25 Getting mad on the Interwebz
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- 65 mucho loco guerro
Dude, this is not boding well for you.
Philipe said 1:57AM on 7-21-2009
What a GUI disaster, Helvetica in the sidebar? RIM!
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Allen S. said 1:48AM on 7-21-2009
It's about time they came out with their own app (besides PocketMac). Hopefully this one won't crash as much, and actually sync data each time the "sync" button is pressed.
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Tim_Netherlands said 4:10AM on 7-21-2009
Could you tell me which app you are referring to here; "...all the way back to the proprietary Sony app I used to use with my old minidisc player, is..."
Still lacking an iPod, so I would love to sync my MiniDisc. I'm the proud owner of both a regular and a NetMD.
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Michael said 4:48AM on 7-21-2009
Glad to hear this, since "Missing Sync" never worked right for me.
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macmd said 1:19PM on 7-21-2009
RIM clearly has heard the growing chorus of MAC users who WANT a BlackBerry even more than an iPhone. I bailed so fast from AT&T I was glad to pay the three ETF to get out of that crappy network. Once iPhone 1.0 was launched the network dropped to its knees and continues to fail over and over.
RIM is making the smart move because this will give Mac users who choose a BlackBerry either for corporate or personal reasons a way to ditch the crappy 3rd party sync options that fail, and are over priced.
Also take note that Desktop Manager for Windows uses a 3rd party sync app to link your iTunes library so Apple and threaten all they want, but they can't stop 3rd party developers from syncing up.
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SimpleLeap Software said 10:54AM on 7-21-2009
It's about time. Wonder what took them so long. It doesn't appear to be a complicated app.
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huampoyotl said 11:32AM on 7-21-2009
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!, what a nightmare!!!!!
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Andrew T. said 5:04PM on 7-22-2009
Good to hear. Now I won't have to use Fusion to do the syncing/updating OS's. Is it just me or are you trying to throw a jab in the last paragraph in saying that RIM is trying to mimic iTunes and it's syncing abilities? LOL I think if you're working with resources for OS X, it's going to look like everything else in OS X. I think it's funny that Word looks like Pages with the grey bar at the top and icons running horizontally.
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verboze said 6:59PM on 7-22-2009
"but it is funny that that program looks almost exactly like iTunes"
There is nothing funny about this. As a user accustomized to Apple's elegant user interface, why would I want to learn yet another interface? RIM is well aware of this, and designed as such. Opening this app and feeling right at home with it from day one is definitely an upsell! Of course, Apple may not like the idea very much, but that is another story ;)
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laden said 4:58AM on 8-07-2009
Nice coming to balckberry ..I am also a blackberry Mobile user ..it's an unlocked Mobile i got it unlocked using the site
http://www.unlocking4u.com/
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