The best ways to connect your smart phone to the Mac
The e-mail–focused BlackBerry, by Research in Motion (RIM), inaugurated the smart-phone category and is still largely regarded as a must-have accessory in corporate and government realms. Its Mac support is fairly limited, but e-mail junkies (and people whose jobs require them to be available at all times) can convince a BlackBerry to sync with their Macs.
The BlackBerry Approach
The BlackBerry’s dominance in the corporate world is largely a result of its e-mail-centric approach. The BlackBerry introduced the concept of push e-mail, an innovation that has now spread to most other smart phones. When you use a regular e-mail program on a computer to check e-mail, you’re using a “pull” process: the client initiates a connection with a server, checks for new messages, and retrieves them. The e-mail is pulled off the server in a
synchronous, or real-time, operation. As a result, you have to wait for that process to finish before you can see new messages.
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