constructive nonconformist

Update on the BlackBerry and CalDav MobileMe calendars issues

Solved this problem for my wife: BlackBerry Desktop Software for Mac OS X does not support CalDav MobileMe calendars. She no longer uses a BlackBerry.

Me? I’m planning on resolving this issue for myself by dumping my BlackBerry in the late June/early July time frame.

BlackBerry Support has only been able to tell me that they don’t know when or if CalDav MobileMe calendars will be supported, but keep checking for updates. Great.

I’ll give the Support people the benefit of the doubt on this issue and assume they truly know nothing. But my guess, and this is truly complete speculation, is that BlackBerry will never support CalDav MobileMe calendars. RIM is busy circling the wagons in the corporate enterprise market which is Windows-centric. An issue for individual consumers on a non-Windows OS just isn’t going to get funded.

BlackBerry Desktop Software for Mac OS X does not support CalDav MobileMe calendars

Apple had CalDav based calendars for MobileMe and iCal in public beta in July and out of beta in October. The CalDav calendars are wonderful because my wife and I can have a shared calendar.

As of December: Known synchronization issues between BlackBerry Desktop Software and the new MobileMe calendar from Apple

“This is a previously reported issue that is being investigated by our development team. No resolution time frame is currently available.”

The work-around is to create a local calendar that the BlackBerry Desktop Software can sync with. If an event is created on the BlackBerry, after syncing to iCal the calendar for the event can be changed to shift the event from the local calendar to a CalDav calendar.