"...as soon as consumers become used to things acting this way, they’ll start actually expecting things to act this way. And when that happens, beware any software company that doesn’t deliver the same experience. In the new world Apple will create, to ask a user to manually sync files between different devices will be the equivalent, back in the ‘80s, of asking a bunch of home computer users used to interacting with GUI’s, to use command lines instead." Yep.

"Trust begins when I can see the design intention of an application." Great stuff from Rands on how sync should work - namely, in the dumbest way possible - and what building trust into application design looks like.

"An experiment I’ve been running for more than two years now is over: running two Macs is more hassle than it’s worth. I write not to praise synchronisation technology, but to bury it." Roughly what I'd always guessed, but Fraser is careful and detailed, and makes some sensible points. I just hope Aperture doesn't chug as much on the new MBPs as it did on the old ones, for his sake.

"BusySync lets you share iCal calendars on a LAN and sync iCal with Google Calendar." Well, if it does that, that's pretty nifty. Worth checking out.