Odd Calendar behavior
by Mitch Ives
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Jun 11, 2008 at 9:10:08 pm
Okay, so suppose that you are going to a convention, say NAB. So you open calendar and make an appointment for NAB with a start time of say Sunday and an end time of say Thursday. On the iPhone you only get a dot on the first date. Without opening that appointment you would have no way of knowing that it is actually an appointment for five days. Yikes!
On a BlackBerry, your calendar would show that all five of those days are already scheduled. On the iPhone, you have to very tediously make five separate appointments on each of the five days. This is a really foolish mistake in the iPhone programming. How did Apple miss this one? Very amateurish... let's hope version 2.0 fixes this...
Re: Odd Calendar behavior by Mitch Ives on Jun 18, 2008 at 3:11:08 pm
[Zane Barker]"If you had tried it you would understand. "
I did, and it's an unacceptable solution. I want times assigned to that appointment, like anyone would. Business people are often in seminars from say 9-5 each day. That doesn't mean that they don't have other appointments.
Re: Odd Calendar behavior by Ron Lindeboom on Jun 18, 2008 at 3:41:37 pm
Yes, like you Mitch, I make multiple appointments in an event or when I schedule with a company that we are going to visit for a day or two. I have learned that, for me, I just don't use the iPhone's calendar because of the kludgey way it works. I just write down the day's appointments on a small sheet of paper and keep it in my pocket. Sometimes, the simplicity of low tech rules! ;o)
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
Remember: Burt Bacharach lied. What the world really needs now is an undo button.
Re: Odd Calendar behavior by Mitch Ives on Jun 19, 2008 at 12:02:23 am
[Ron Lindeboom]"Sometimes, the simplicity of low tech rules! ;o)"
Yes, I think the Russians proved that when we spent $13 million in the 60's making a pen that could write in space. The Russians sent pencils up with the Cosmonauts...
