Danger may get PIM-sync, but they wanna charge for it

Cory Doctorow 9:42 pm Tue May 6, 2003

The good news is, it looks like the Danger Hiptop/T-Mobile Sidekick is going to get a synch application that will let you move your data from your PC to your device (duh — it's amazing to think that this didn't ship to begin with, except that phone-companies love lock-in opportunities). The bad news is that this user-survey from Danger implies that they're going to charge money for the software. Geez. Even the Newton's synch-software was gratis. One possibility appears to be charging a monthly fee for access to synch capability. Ugh.

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