I disagree with many of Teamwork’s IT decisions – Cold Fusion, AWS, non-specific URLs, broken back buttons – they’ll paste any kind of incompatible coding languages into their system. Our company project management system (far more important to us than shared calendars – works great – and a shared address system – barely works) Teamwork exports contacts as Excel files. It turns out that import contacts out of csv files is a very popular feature request at Fruux. Your request unfortunately falls in that latter category. For some of those types of requests, we end up prioritizing and implementing the feature, but for some others they are extremely rare requests and not necessarily something that many people need. When I reminded Dominik that regardless of theory many, many popular applications still export contact data in CSV format and only CSV format, his co-founder Evert Pot wrote to me to confirm that my request for CSV import of contact data is just a nuisance:įrom our perspective I hope you also understand we actually occasionally get an email such as yours, requesting the ‘one missing feature’ often along with how ridiculous it is we don’t yet support it. That’s about as inflexible approach to compatibility as I’ve ever seen. Spreadsheets with names and telephone numbers have been ubiquitous since Lotus 123 hit the market.įruux founder Dominik Tobschall tweeted me that Fruux will only ever work with VCF as spreadsheets are obsolete: Contact data in CSV format is the single most popular format in the world for contact data. Not allowing the import of tabular data is the silliest thing I’ve ever heard of from what are probably smart people. Fruux fails to sync reliably with Apple’s DAV servers.Fruux will not allow import of tabular data (i.e.Fruux is almost unique in its marketplace. Due to Google’s free offering, paid sync has become a very niche market. Sadly most people care not a whit about privacy. Google’s CalDAV works brilliantly and is free but there are serious privacy concerns which we cover below. It competes with the free Google Calendar principally, though iCloud and Microsoft Outlook offer paid competition. Fruux is an address book and calendar sync service. In case you have not heard of it before, let me introduce Fruux.
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