The Macworld podcast has a mostly pointless, rambling interview with three prominent Mac/iPhone developers, from which I did pick up one thing I didn’t know, even though it had been rumored earlier (don’t know whether I missed the announcement or it hasn’t been widely publicized): it seems like the iPhone 2.0 has Bonjour, and any third-party app (such as OmniFocus in this case) can synchronize data with your Mac over your wifi network (if you don’t have wifi, that’s a good reason to get a Time Capsule).
The Apple Design Awards page only mentions that OmniFocus can “sync with your desktop via .Mac or WebDav,” so I’m not sure whether the Omni developer leaked a secret functionality he wasn’t supposed to mention yet, or the application under-utilizes Bonjour in such a way that it isn’t worth a mention — according to his description, you only use Bonjour to connect to your desktop OmniFocus and find out the settings for synchronization over the internet, not retrieve the data itself.
I understand that Bonjour sync would be limited in that you have to open each application you want to sync, one after another, whenever you’re on your home network (since they can’t run in the background and update their data silently), but it’s still quite a worthy alternative to paying for Mobile Me or setting up a WebDav server yourself.
And, if the technology is in the phone, iTunes better end up using it.
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