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finch

01-12-2006 03:18 PM

RIM to offer PocketMac for BlackBerry free download

This is good and long overdue!

Quote:

coming in February

http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/rele...tionFor=575208

Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ:RIMM)(TSX:RIM) and Information Appliance Associates (IAA) today announced a licensing agreement whereby RIM will offer 'PocketMac® for BlackBerry®' to Mac users, free of charge. PocketMac for BlackBerry is a desktop application that enables Mac users to synchronize data between their BlackBerry devices and Macintosh applications including core OS X version 10.4 "Tiger" applications and Microsoft Entourage.

torifile

01-12-2006 03:19 PM

RIM's support of Macs

I just read on MacNN that RIM will begin offering PocketMac as a free download starting in Feb. That's good and bad news. It's good because free is always good. Also, I hope that means that PM will have more resources devoted to fixing the thing. It's bad because that means that RIM isn't doing their own version of desktop manager. Anyway, just thought I'd let us Mac users know.

finch

01-12-2006 03:21 PM

Merged threads.

torifile

01-12-2006 03:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by finch

Merged threads.

Beaten by a minute! At least I didn't repost. :-)

finch

01-12-2006 04:01 PM

True! Figured keep it all in one thread.

Quote:

Originally Posted by torifile

Beaten by a minute! At least I didn't repost. :-)

aristobrat

01-12-2006 05:28 PM

Wonder if RIM will get around to enabling modem support? ;)

ladyhollman

01-12-2006 08:45 PM

Darn and to think I recently paid for PocketMac. Well, hopefully RIM will make it more intuitive.

aristobrat

01-12-2006 09:06 PM

Sounds like RIM wants to have a finger in the pot, so hopefully they will address intuitiveness!

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RIM has licensed the complete version of PocketMac for BlackBerry from IAA and the companies plan ongoing product development collaboration.

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/...19&newsLang=en

lionboy

01-17-2006 11:08 PM

I downloaded the pocketmac version for my Powerbook and it seems pretty smooth, no probs so far and no crashes. Nice freebie.

Chutzpah

01-18-2006 04:19 PM

PocketMac will have an Application Loader and email synchronization !!

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/wlg/9037
http://www.rimarkable.com/archives/496

pej	01-24-2006 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by lionboy

I downloaded the pocketmac version for my Powerbook and it seems pretty smooth, no probs so far and no crashes. Nice freebie.

Can you provide some details on your setup? I've had no end of problems with PocketMac Pro 3.51 for the WinMobile side of the house on my eMac G4 and PowerMac G4, both running OS X 10.4.4. I've been going back and forth for MONTHS with IAA, and am just about to rip out the Pro version and try the BlackBerry version to see if it's any better (and ditch my iPaq once and for all).

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