If you'd like to use the Mac and iOS apps, along with the products you mention from Microsoft, the way to go is a hosted Exchange account. I've had to do that with one of my domains.
How does that Exchange server work without an internet connection and using portable devices? Adding insult to injury, a day ago iCloud suffered from authentication issues and we could not log in. iCloud is sheer crap.
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Third world's resources drive First World economies in many ways. It would be daft to alienate trading partners but this is exactly what policy makers and systems architects are doing.
Africa, for example, has 1,1 billion people of which less than 16% saturation.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...inent-big-China-India-US-Europe-together.html It is a lucrative market growing at around 3 600%. Yes, 3k%!
Africa is huge. The Sahara desert alone covers all of the USA on size yet it is only a third of the Dark Continent. South America, even Asia are at least a decade away from functional connectivity.
As broadband is both hugely expensive and also simply non-existent in many places, we MUST HAVE Outlook local sync between phone and pc via USB, Bluetooth or wireless.
Apple just started forcing iSheeple through a mostly nonexistent cloud, thereby alienating hordes of users even on Europe.
Nokia was rather unwise to take Nokia Suite away from Lumia My country is where 6 Nokias get sold for every single non-Nokia device. That is changing fast as Nokii jump ship. Android could be taking over because of Nokia's short-sightedness.
Bring in full local sync as we simply cannot use an imaginary cloud. Calendar, tasks, reminders, contacts and especially Notes.
Marketing departments should research their markets better and systems architects need to get an education and also travel, to see what users at grassroots level are dealing with. Apple is out of touch with the realities that face their customers. Apple are making themselves irrelevant and possibly obsolete by adopting policies that lack even the most basic infrastructure out there. If they wanted to control the globe, travel with Nasa to the moon as earth is too big for them to comprehend.
I always laugh when someone in America asks me if I know Mr So-and-So. Then I ask: where does he live? Then he says "Ghana" and he cannot understand that Johannesburg is in a different country, let alone realising that there are 54 independent countries in Africa. Algiers in Algeria is 8013.18km or 4979.30 miles from Cape Town. Distances are huge and large tracts of land are sparsely populated, due to either impenetrable forests or deserts. Yet we need to communicate and only local sync can ever work.
Also: data from my Macbook, two feet away from my iPhone, needs to travel a whopping 23,140km to Cupertino, LA and the same distance back so that I can satisfy iDictator and sync through his iCloud. I need to have an internet connection and then pay dearly for the use of the data carrier. This is sheer stupidity as I used to be doing this for free, anywhere in the bush, on the Landrover's hood which is a nice desk. Does it make any sense?
To Apple, 46,280km is less than two feet.
