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ragnar is offline ragnar
2007-07-09 , 18:36
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#220
Originally Posted by Milhouse View Post
If the Tablets had a coherent system-wide Contacts database, all these applications could tap into a single list and avoid the duplicated data, increased development effort and incompatible GUIs. Add a system-wide Calendar and To-Do list along with phone or PC syncing and voila, Internet Tablet PIM for the masses.
But: there *is* a system-wide Contacts database, the applications can tap into it. That was the thinking exactly originally, and that still is the thinking. It is extensible for new protocols and new services. However: Gizmo and Skype are external applications and services, they can choose to do so if they want it. But then again, they don't have to. So far, as you see, they didn't do so.