Q: calendar restrictions
Apple is addressing the business market more and more.
We moved from windows to Mac in our private clinic, with 4 doctors, estheticiens, receptionist and secretaries we share 8 common calendars.
This works like a charm! Everybody is in sync with all appointments made in a particular calendar. PC, MAC, Iphone, Ipad no problems!
Everybody happy, but........
Now we get a message that we reached our limit and cannot add appointments!
On search we found: iCloud: Limits for Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, and Bookmarks - Apple Support which states that "the maximum size of all calendar data is limited to 24MB ????? We have 5 Gb of data in Icloud but are only allowed to use 24 Mb for calendar data........
We contacted Apple support: Who answered that this could not be altered, so we had 2 solutions:
- remove appointments form the past
- use separate apple-id's and share calendars
Option 1 is not what we want since we want to keep track off appointments we had in the past.
We started out with option 2 but ran into much sync issues where appointments were not added or late, resulting in double appointments, which were resolved once we converted to 1 apple id.
So we are stuck now, what to do? Go to Goolgle Calendar? Or back to Microsoft Exchange?
Can anyone from Apple explain why these data limits are so restricted, and if they plan to expand this in the near future?
If Apple wants to focus more on the business market, http://recode.net/2015/01/08/apple-hires-hp-veteran-to-head-up-corporate-sales/ then a proper Calendar solution seems one of the first thing to have, or does anyone has a solution for our problem other than the two mentioned?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), iphone 4, ios 5
Posted on Jan 10, 2015 2:43 AM
