“In March we announced that CalDAV, an open standard for accessing calendar data across the web, would become a partner-only API because it appeared that almost all the API usage was driven by a few large developers. Since that announcement, we received many requests for access to CalDAV, giving us a better understanding of developers’ use cases and causing us to revisit that decision. In response to those requests, we are keeping the CalDAV API public. And in the spirit of openness, today we’re also making CardDAV – an open standard for accessing contact information across the web – available to everyone for the first time.” Good move. Great for independent, small projects, specifically.
Does Microsoft offer the equivalent openness for their technology’s calander and contact info?
Nice way to turn the subject, lets not forget that Google is no different than any other corporation and is doing this only due to public pressure.
Of course all companies should make public (and royalty-free) all APIs that their products provide, and deserve to be called evil until they do so.
If they use open standards like CalDAV and CardDAV, that is even better.
But while Google has face to loose, MS isn’t held to any promises (unless made to the jugdge).
That alone makes a difference.
AFAICT they still only support their proprietary EAS protocol.
This is very nice and all but… *STILL* no support in Android: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2361
(they even merge it with an .ical request?)
After removing xmpp server federation from Talk/Hangouts… I’m really close to dumping any google product
While it would be nice to have CalDAV support built into Android there are several apps in play that provides it instead.
Edited 2013-06-06 15:24 UTC
Carddav sync and caldav sync apps work very neatly on Android. For one of them you have to pay, though. I still highly recommend both.
I use them in conjunction with ownCloud and neither Google nor any other company has a share of my contact/calender info since.