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Originally Posted by tvchip
The reason is simple, because I can sync wirelessly without having to go through my PC. Syncing via wi-fi is much faster (only about a minute for 30 channels), versus about 15 minutes via iSilo, and my USB connection between my PC and my PDA. And now I can sync at work or at home, or anywhere with a WiFi connection.
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The reason you perceive it as "faster", is because AvantGo is serving you completely different "clipped" content, run through their proxy. iSilo/iSiloX hits the
real website hosting the content, and fetches it directly, hence your delays and speed differences.
Receiving a page that has been filtered, stripped, scraped, and cleansed specifically for PDA display, is very different from hitting a webpage directly, making the proper socket requests, and converting the content and graphics into a format for display on a PDA.
The AvantGo approach, while "faster" (to you, but not to others), is nice in some situations, but presents a few problems for most other people:
- You can't use it for Intranet and Internet content
- Its a MAJOR security risk if you use pages that require authentication
- It only works when AvantGo is allowed to reach the content (I know several sites that specifically block AvantGo's proxies, and you can't access their content at all using AvantGo, even though the website is public and accessible to the rest of the world. In fact, AvantGo even reports a completely false error regarding the connection state).
Its really nice for "quick hits" kind of browsing and news, but it is definately not a browser replacement, or anything that should be used for real production data. Its just too slow and too much of a risk for the rest of the world to even consider. That's not just my opinion, its the opinion of a growing number of users and businesses who are looking for faster, more-scalable alternatives.