Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote:
A few years ago, I did the same exact thing. Here's the info you're missing:With a blackberry, there is only one calendar. If you sync it to outlook (or whatever), then you sync it to outlook (or whatever.) So if you sync your blackberry with multiple calendars (google and outlook) then you are indirectly syncing outlook to google, and vice-versa. With android and apple, that's not the way it works. With android and apple, you tell the *device* to connect to multiple accounts. The device displays them both, merged together, and syncs them both locally, but in fact, keeps them separate. While you might not necessarily like this, there are some good reasons to do so. Each calendar system has different limitations. For example, in google, you can set multiple reminders for the same item, which is something outlook can't do. And in outlook, you can make a recurrence occur indefinitely, which can't be done in google. ("Forever" in google is some number of years ... I think 5 years.) And there's a bunch of other stuff, like categories, and responses, tasks, etc, which are not fully supported by the *other* providers' calendar system, and even less so by your phone.
It's worse than that. There are also calendar events that come across email (CalDAV and all that), and recently Google has decided not to support it any more.
Personally, I have a Mac (personal), Windows laptop (work), and Android phone, and a few groups of people I like to share events with (e.g., family).
It should be possible to have each device show all calendar layers, and all events in each layer - regardless of how an event was distributed (central server, replicated server, email). In practice, what with various sync technologies, I either end up with some events on some devices, or multiple copies of events floating around.
I think the protocols all do the right thing. The implementations, however, are horrid.
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