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CardDAV is very much not a new standard. It's been around for at least a decade and is based on vCard which has been around for even longer. That said, I'm gla
by zrail 14y ago
CardDAV is very much not a new standard. It's been around for at least a decade and is based on vCard which has been around for even longer.
That said, I'm glad they're doing this now. For the longest time the only way to sync contacts on iOS has been to set up google as an exchange provider.
- mtgx 14y agoWhat would've been a newer standard?
- zrail 14y agoThe original title was something along the lines of "google uses new standard to sync contacts".
- Calamitous 14y agoPerhaps they meant "new for Google."
- leephillips 14y ago"the only way to sync contacts on iOS has been to set up google as an exchange provider." This seems to work fine for me. Is there an advantage to CardDAV?
- chmars 14y agoGoogle Sync via ActiveSync/Exchange has some serious limitations: 'Limited Contact Information. The iOS device can synchronize up to 3 email addresses. Phone number synchronization is limited to 2 Home numbers, 1 Home Fax, 1 Mobile, 1 Pager, 3 Work (one will be labeled 'Company Main') and one Work Fax number.' https://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139635 https://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ... The limitations on the Mac are less serious but still not all address data gets synced, for example relationships.
- micampe 14y agoYes. The Exchange/ActiveSync version Google uses is quite old and fairly limited in the number of elements available per property, the labels are only a fixed set, and some properties are not supported at all. CardDAV doesn't have these limitations.
- leephillips 14y agoThanks - sounds like pretty good reasons to switch.
- r00fus 14y agoIf by long time, you mean 2011 - that's when the IETF RFC was filed: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6352 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6352 CardDAV is much like CalDAV and WebDAV - but for vCards - which has been around pretty much forever. Interesting fact: Apple appears prominently in the RFCs of two of the three protocols as well as the vcard format. With vCard and CalDAV, open-source productivity software never really did much better than Microsoft Exchange/Outlook, but CardDAV does provide something that Exchange doesn't - an working, standards-based way to sync your contacts across all accounts.