Comments on: Dear Apple: Why Can’t Apps Access the Calendar?

By: גן ילדים

גן ילדים — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:45:00 +0000

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By: Gui Rib

Gui Rib — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:44:16 +0000

How can Calendar (on iPhone or iPod Touch) show an alert with it turn off and no 3G or wireless conection? I’d like to see this fuction on my app. Someone have any idea?

By: Lothar

Lothar — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:57:04 +0000

Do to the fact that the iPhone does not allow other Apps to access the internal calendar the iPhone is useless for me. I will sell it and buy a Palm Pre or a Blackberry. Here I do not understand the politics of Apple…

By: Walter Haefeker

Walter Haefeker — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:25:57 +0000

I’m working on an app that would allow you to keep track of a certain process. The user would picking a date and the app would calculate and add the dates for the next steps of the process to the calendar. It would be nice to do this right in the device through a proper calendar API instead of syncing through an external server.

By: iBamse

iBamse — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:02:38 +0000

Where are you guys from?

The only reason to allow access to the calender database is to enable 3rd party software companies to build their own front ends while using the same database and support services like Exchange sync et al.

Getting your itineraries or movie schedules into your calendars is a no-brainer using exchange sync.

By: טכנאי מחשבים

טכנאי מחשבים — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:15:12 +0000

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By: Jay2k1

Jay2k1 — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:20:49 +0000

The calendar lacks quite some things. Another thing that’s annoying as hell is when I add a birthday date to a contact, why can’t the iPhone ask me if I want to add the birthday to the calendar? As it is now, I have to enter every birthday twice – to calendar and to contacts. And a clever solution for the alert. An old phone of mine would ring an alarm sound at 0:00 of the birthday, very useful to wake you up in the middle of the night.

By: robinson

robinson — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:45:31 +0000

Palm's calendar, even from 10 years ago, is much better than the iPhone and IPT's! Remarkably so. Snooze an alert, the alert doesn't vanish when you unlock the device (let us skip the need to unlock, too), instant edit of an entry, automatic alert, customizing alert sounds, alerts at the start of an event, etc. The calendar even messes up AM/PM, so one can all too easily inadvertently set 12 am or 1 am middle of the night appointments!

I'm using my IPT regularly, but still have the sinking feeling I'm going to miss appointments. The system is just that weak.

As to 3rd party access... yes, yes. The Todos could put in events, e.g., on the Palm, Lunar could put in the Moon's phases into the Calendar, quite spiffy and useful for us star gazers!

By: hotrod

hotrod — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:43:39 +0000

Yes. Man Apple. Every other phone system allows access to the calendar. Pocket Informant would be twice as fast and I would love to write to the database rather than syncing with google then sync outlook with google then sync outlook with my exchange server. Yikes. It’s a pain, but right now it is the only solution.

By: MacSheikh

MacSheikh — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:17:53 +0000

This is something I would personally love to have. Come on Apple, do it & do it soon!