Does anybody else want Thunderbird/Sunbird support?
I'm not a big fan of Outlook. I've been using Mozilla Thuderbird for e-mail and Sunbird for calendar since they came out. Does anyone else want to be able to import information from these programs without having to convert to Outlook formats?
Hate to say this but where lucky that Apple gave us the ability to sync with any Windows apps at all! Until just recently the only option for windows users was to convert to a the single format Itunes would read. So don't go gripping when we are lucky to have anything on the Windows side this being a Mac product.
Marketing the iPod/iTunes to Windows user was probably one of the smartest things Apple did. Most everyone I know that has an iPod is a Windows user.
As of now, Outlook/Outlook Express and Internet Explorer still dominate on Windows installations. Firefox and Thunderbird are coming on strong... I use them too, but there needs to be a real and noticable demand before Apple does this... same with Linux. Most Linux users keep a Windows machine around. Not many games that run on Linux (same with Apple and the Mac OS). But I'm not a gamer, but I do dabble with Linux a bit and would love to see an iTunes native linux application.
The OpenSource movement is on and products like Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org, GNU Privacy Guard (OpenPGP encryption), TrueCrypt (OpenSource disc encryption), and OpenWorkbench (project management software) -- just to name a few, are getting peoples attention and they are decent products and excellent alternatives to corporate America's offerings (Microsoft, PGP Corp)... But on the same note, Apple is part of Corporate America and they are out to make a buck... To me, they just seem more honest than most and the iPod is very innovative and is really changing how consumers buy music.
Apple has a long way to go and I'm sure they are watching the OpenSource movement with great interest and some fear. Have some patience and keep using OpenSource... as more people use is and generate interest in it, it will grow... in good ways and bad. We will have to wait and see.
Actually it seems to support it - if you simply copy a calendar file from Sunbird into the Calendar dir on your iPod Nano the events shows up at your iPod.
Thunderbird/Sunbird/Lightning support would be great. I'm very hopeful for the development of lightning.
Also, I should point out that while iCal, the program, was invented by Apple, I'm pretty sure that the iCalendar standard was not. Two different icals.
