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Comment	> http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2009/06/ars-reviews-the-palm-pre-part-1-the-blackberry-killer.ars/2 > > > > Pre's approach to contacts is really the future of contact > management. There's a part in my interview with Russ Daniels, HP's VP > of Cloud Services Strategy, that I keep coming back to, where Russ is > describing the hassle of syncing contacts between multiple devices; > most of this hassle stems from the fact that devices tend to view > your contacts database as pool of data, instead of a service. > > > > What none of them do is the simple thing of, "tell me the URL for > your contact service." Additionally, it has to be a service, not a > repository, because in fact the contact information that's relevant > for me includes the global address list for HP, and I have to be able > to have that invoked... I can't replicate that data and keep it > synchronized, so I need to be able to use a federation model behind > this single endpoint to answer those kinds of queries. > > > > The Pre is the first device I've used that expects all contact data > to come from a service instead of a repository. Give it your Google, > Facebook, Exchange, or AIM credentials, and it pulls all of the > contacts for those services down onto the device. Ultimately, webOS > presumes that the canonical source for your contact data is a cloud > or server somewhere, and that your phone merely acts as a local cache > for this data. (In fact, webOS's contact management is so > service-oriented that it's kind of a pain to access a traditional > contact repository?like a standard vcard collection, for instance.)
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