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Google Nixes Some Calendar Features and Other Software Offerings

Posted by timothy on from the this-cloud-is-certainly-substantial dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google on Friday announced it is shutting down a slew of features and services as part of its winter cleaning. Google Calendar will be losing a few features, Google Sync will be axed (on the consumer side), as will Google Calendar Sync, SyncML, the Issue Tracker Data API, and the Punchd app."

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  1. Re:Calendar sync? by LordLucless · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not unless you're using Exchange to do it:

    Google Sync was designed to allow access to Gmail, Google Calendar, and Contacts via the Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync® protocol. With the recent launch of CardDAV, Google now offers similar access via IMAP, CalDAV, and CardDAV, making it possible to build a seamless sync experience using open protocols.

    GoogleSync and GoogleCalendarSync are Google's implementation of ActiveSync; they're not used to describe the general syncing features Google offers. This announcement is basically saying they're retiring a proprietary protocol in favour of open standards.

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  2. Re:Calendar sync? by broken_chaos · · Score: 5, Informative

    The summary was pretty terribly worded -- it didn't get across the fact that, essentially, this is stuff you're horridly unlikely to be using. The actual article was much clearer and more matter-of-fact about it.

  3. Re:Calendar sync? by LordLucless · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's because the summary wasn't designed to inform, it was designed to enrage. This is what passes for journalism these days.

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  4. Re:Calendar sync? by LordLucless · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, you're ignorant enough not to know what CalDAV is, yet still consider yourself knowledgeable enough to comment on the field, so I'd say that you're the natural target audience for trollish, flamebait headlines.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CalDAV#Implementations
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CardDAV#Implementations

    http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/en/us/IntellectualProperty/IPLicensing/Programs/ExchangeActiveSyncProtocol.aspx

    Also note that ActiveSync requires an MS license to implement. Now that's lock-in.

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  5. Re:Now I have to use the gmail app by i.r.id10t · · Score: 5, Informative

    "If it doesn't cost you money, then you are the product being sold"

    Or something like that... forget where I saw it though...

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