Q: How to locally sync an iPhone with OS X Mavericks? iCloud is NOT an option.

Ultimately, the only way to change things is to vote with our money. I have been a very loyal Apple customer for more than a quarter century. I estimate that I have spent between $100,000 to $150,000 Apple on Apple products personally during that time. I have been the recommender for corporate purchases of at least 10X this amount. This experience has made it certain that next time I buy a computer, software, a mobile device or anything else, I will look MUCH harder for an alternative to Apple.

And let Apple know you are doing this. 

Not really a solution for 1 single user, but I am one and think about it running local on my Macbook, is to check out SoGo: http://www.sogo.nu

SoGo Description:

Share your calendars, address books and mails in your community with a completely free and open source solution.

Let your Mozilla Thunderbird/Lightning, Microsoft Outlook, Apple iCal/iPhone and BlackBerry users collaborate using a modern platform.

Unfortunately there´s no "easy" Mac-Installer for it.

There´s even a Automatic SOGo configuration for iOS (iPhone/iPad) and MacOSX: https://netfuture.ch/tools/autoconfiguration/

Another cool thing I just found here:

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http://www.macworld.com/article/2057971/sync-contacts-and-calendars-with-your-ip hone-via-itunes-not-in-mavericks-you-dont.html

yep1

11/05/2013 05:38 AM PST

I wrote a small open source app for iOS and OS X for basic calendar synchronization over USB on Mavericks. The iOS app has been submitted to the AppStore and is currently waiting for review.

See

https://github.com/yep/osxCalSync

and

https://github.com/yep/iosCalSync

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The decision makers are not reading these forums.  They only listen thorugh formal feedback channels. 

Although I'm also frustated with the heavy handed apple approach.  Even deleting multiple posts.  Want your voice heard use the www.apple.com/feedback and you request CHANGE through online websites that send apple a collection of signatures.  Will it change anything? that remains to be seen.

I doubt seriously that the decisionmakers read the official feedback either.

I was VP Marketing of SuperMac Technology from 1988 to 1990. My wife worked at Apple in their internal audit group around that same time. I have seen this story before. Apple back then in the age of Sculley became "corporate". The company lost its purpose and almost went down. The Apple Board was smart enough (or lucky enough) to bring back Jobs, who was personally responsible for creating the new markets-mp3 music players, high quality laptops, digital entertainment, iPhone and iPad-that made Apple what it is today. In my observation, Apple is reverting to a "corporate" culture following Jobs' death, as is the normal process when a company reaches a certain age and size. For example, see Xerox and many others. In essence, the organization grows sufficiently large that it becomes its own ecosystem and becomes "self-referencing". In other words, the company personnel care more about what happens internally than they do about what happens externally (for example, with their customers).

Jobs was unique as a very active technical founder staying with his company for many decades. Apple will not be able to duplicate his combination of creativity, drive and ruthlessness. I expect that Apple will continue to develop what was in the pipeline at Jobs death, but will gradually cease introducing revolutionary products or markets. We all better start looking for alternatives. This immediate problem of the elimination of syncing is only a small symptom of a much larger issue.

RobertRTillman wrote:

 

I doubt seriously that the decisionmakers read the official feedback either.

 

Appears that they do ... tethering will be back, sort of, kind of ...

Oh, never mind, just watch: http://youtu.be/8s1Ubjfz4V8

I have to say I believe your assessment of the situation is, frankly, moronic.

The feature was deprecated in 10.7. Apple published that. They didnt' try to hide anything. It seems the only people complaining are those who are both ultraparanoid and stupid enough to install a .0 release of an operating system without bothering to investigate compatiblility or even read a review first. Honestly, I don't see how both can be true at the same time without creating a giant matter sucking black hole of a paradox, but it seems it can actually happen.

For those people here in the "tin-foil hat brigade", Apple have just published the document below, which may (or may not) help to allay your fears about the NSA, GCHQ or whoever getting to see your Contacts and Calendars:

Report on Government Information Requests

http://www.apple.com/pr/pdf/131105reportongovernmentinforequests2.pdf

It categorically refutes many of the more outrageous claims made by certain people in this thread.

KiltedTim wrote:

 

I have to say I believe your assessment of the situation is, frankly, moronic.

 

The feature was deprecated in 10.7. Apple published that. They didnt' try to hide anything. It seems the only people complaining are those who are both ultraparanoid and stupid enough to install a .0 release of an operating system without bothering to investigate compatiblility or even read a review first.

Unfortunately the non-technical morons may make up 95% of Apple's customer base who may not have pick up on the 'well published' notifications sent to developers and even then this techie jargon may not have meant a lot to them.....but most importantly they have trusted Apple!! Apple should have the courtesy not to ignore its morons....

Thanks, snozdop. I am sure I am not alone in saying how relieved I am and filled with great deal of trust and confidence.....:-)

I have founded, run as CEO, been a board member, worked as a investment banker and/or worked as a restructuring an turnaround specialist for Silicon Valley high technology startup companies since 1980. We have a name for businesses that ignore their customers. We call them "out of business".

My biggest concern is that 80% of my time is spent where I have first world internet connection and enjoy keeping abreast with current technology and usage of current OS features in Mavericks! Unfortunately 20% of my time is spent where I have no internet connection but still require to be able to sync both calendars and contacts from iPhone to MacBook in order to accomplish my work in an efficient manner. This facility has now been taken away with no current easily available substitute.

If you are running Parallel on your MacBook with Mavericks you can sync to Microsoft Outlook via USB cable. Does Apple now want us to use a Microsoft product instead of Mac's Calendar and Contact??

RobertRTillman wrote:

 

I have founded, run as CEO, been a board member, worked as a investment banker and/or worked as a restructuring an turnaround specialist for Silicon Valley high technology startup companies since 1980. We have a name for businesses that ignore their customers. We call them "out of business".

Hasn't hurt Commonwealth Edison etc, but thanks for the insight.

Unless Apple becomes a regulated utility, i.e. a true monopoly, I do not think that Commonweath Edison is a particularly relevant example.

RobertRTillman wrote:

 

Unless Apple becomes a regulated utility, i.e. a true monopoly, I do not think that Commonweath Edison is a particularly relevant example.

Whatever you prefer, remind me to sell short based on your excellent analysis.