Yeah sure... Hey - why don't you set up to sync every 0.1 second ? Why apple doesn't support that ? I want my iphone/mac to be synchronized continuosly...

This kind of crap I hear every time. I work in organization with 40K+ employees and if everyone would like to set up synchronization every 1 minute it would generate 40K+ TCP connections + mobile devices + other servers + outgoing connections.. Do you guys don't understand that the technology is limited ?

Probably in most circumstances you'll get overlapping connections as default TCP timeout is 60 sec.

And don't tell me you live so fast you can't be out of sync for 10 min.

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heh, my thoughts exactly.

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I agree. . .This "limitation" of pushing out to the cloud seems to be by design, to limit the impact on the servers. It makes sense that changes made in the cloud environment i.e. on your iPhone or MobileMe website, would trigger the "push" to other devices.

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There is no reason they couldn't have implemented whatever push they have going on the phone into the desktop meaning no server load unless needed... which is what I paid for.

Reason it's necessary is what if I am going out quickly, make a change on my mac to my calendar with directions to where I am going. I then get ready to leave and sleep my computer. Well the update didn't fall into that 15 min window and maybe I didn't check. I'm screwed.

Point is quit living in such a small world. I get you are an IT guru and know how it should be and why it isn't. Please don't make decisions as to why I do or don't need a feature to work correctly and as expected.

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Your scenario is exactly why I looked into making the sync time faster. I am often on the phone making notes, appointments, changing contact info and then within minutes am out the door and back into my car off to see another client. When I'm on the road the information I usually need right away is usually the most recently added (client phone numbers, appointments with pertinent notes added to them, etc). Before MobileMe I would have to sync my phone (via USB) one last time which is painful to wait for or just not practical and often times not done at all because of it. To all the "haters," nobody said you have to change your sync time so if you don't like it, don't do it. Furthermore, it doesn't have to be set to 1 minute - even 10 or 5 minutes is better than 15.

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Well I am ecstatic with this hint and appreciate you doing the work and then posting it.

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Improving the syn to make it faster - I agree in 100% - but again syncing every 1 minute is not going to solve the problem.
I can hardly call myself as 'network guru' as you named it, but only what I'm saying is that technology is limited and doing against it won't save you nor improve the performance of syncing.
More likely sooner or later you'll find yourself not being able to sync at all due to all users setting up sync every 1 min... so encouraging it is not a solution to the bigger problem.

Why not going for a healthier solution to all - if you are worried about missing some events you've just entered - just sync before you leave.

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