Thread: Wish: Hotsync
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Old 02-14-2003, 11:51 AM   #11
bdjmobile
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I'm not against the enhancements that are expressed here, but please don't do them in a way that removes the things I find superior to avantgo. The avantgo caching and wireless support are both done by forcing you through their server - and I find that that raises problems:

1) you are dependent on their web service being available - and even they are subject to service load issues at times. ( plus, who pays for the running of the servers? Avantgo does this via subscriptions or advertiser support - two things I can do without).

2) their server cannot reach back through corporate firewalls to sites inside a company (unless my company purchases extra software or services), nor can it sync stuff on my hard drive.

So in short, the things about Avantgo that provide those extra services are precisely why I moved from Avantgo to iSilo - please don't saddle me with those same limitations.
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