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To me, Sunrise is the closest thing I have seen yet to replacing AvantGo. The other options like iSilo, just aren't suitable for fetching news and RSS feeds. iSilo and JPluck are what I will use to create large documents, such as HTML Formatted books into iSilo, but that was never the intent of Sunrise.
Heck, the name "Sunrise" alone pretty much makes me think of the morning paper and getting RSS and News, not converting the O'Riley CD Bookshelf into Plucker.
With the latest release, the "always" schedule option allows the documents to be updated in realtime at hot sync. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the iSilo and others don't do this at all. I would like the ability to just sync at HotSync, and Laurens has answered this request with a definate "maybe"
I will agree with you on the "It'd be nice to have a Mac/Linux client" but doesn't that apply to a lot of apps with conduits out there still? Besides, Laurens has said that PPC will be the focus in the future, and how is the PPC sync support on Mac OSX? Limited at best. But, if this rumored low cost mac ever comes into fruition, I'll be hoping for better OSX support.
That said, I'm curious to see what direction Laurens will take this once he starts the viewer on PPC. I'd almost consider getting a PPC at that point, this may be the tractor app to pull me across the fold... maybe.
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